Sentences with phrase «industrial waste dumping»

This being said, animals raised on pastures in the vicinity of industrial waste dumping grounds are exposed to more heavy metals and pollutants.

Not exact matches

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

There is no excuse for trashing the planet, like so many big industrial companies do (e.g. dumping their toxic waste into rivers, etc..)

«Thirty years ago, the Buffalo River was declared biologically dead and ecologically destroyed because of industrial dumping of toxic waste,» Higgins said.

The Dewey Loeffel site in the Town of Nassau was a dumping ground for industrial waste in the 1950s and 60s.

He says the Onondagas» concerns continue to lie in the fact that 80 to 90 percent of industrial waste, dumped by various companies over the years, still lines the west shore of what was once called the most polluted lake in the country.

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

Accusations fly over criminal dumping and scuttling of cargo ships carrying industrial and radioactive waste

Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

And then there are all the countries in the world that do not regulate corporate dumping effectively — the rest of the world then suffers their industrial waste spewed into the atmosphere.

There are also no laws enacted to keep bottled water facilities away from industrial plants or waste dumps.

SHC moved against dumping of sewage industrial waste at Sea View Seaview Karachi Pakistan.

Industrial waste is regularly dumped into the river in Mumbai, whose waters have long been deemed unfit for human consumption, but the latest surge in blue dog sightings has prompted animal advocates to urge the government to take action against companies.

If we are to live on this planet for the long haul without transforming it into what seems like an entirely different planet, we will need to come to the understanding that we can no longer use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for the waste products of modern industrial civilization.

Species were hunted almost to the point of extinction, making fish far more expensive, and the oceans became a dumping ground for industrial and urban waste, spreading contamination throughout the marine food chain and making it unsafe to eat fish in great quantities.

They dumped all their agri waste and industrial chemicals in the pond too.

Cleaning a river in one location, will not stop it becoming polluted elsewhere, if people continue to dump sewage or industrial waste along the route.

The Homeless Homes Project, which features tiny structures built out of illegally dumped garbage and industrial waste are becoming more than an environmental stance or garbage art.

It seems far easier to dump a bunch of soil, nutrients, and industrial organic waste down our rivers.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

However, the proposed site of the new mega-base is situated precariously close to a serious environmental nuisance.The facility in question, Ramat Hovav, is a combination industrial area and toxic waste dump, and has been a serious nuisance to residents of Israel's desert south for years.

There's a difference between being good stewards of the environment (e.g. dumping industrial chemical waste into rivers, etc.) and surmising that there is «man - made» climate change, when there is no scientific consensus to back up that claim.