Sentences with phrase «large garbage dump»

All the dogs are transported to Trash Island which is essentially a large garbage dump off the coast.

The first screening June 14 is of Waste Land, which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Case in point: Lucy Walker's Waste Land, which follows Brooklyn artist Vik Muniz as he visits Brazil's Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump.

Vik Muniz was the subject of the Academy Award nominated documentary film Waste Land (2010) which followed his work with a group of catadores — pickers of recyclable materials — in Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump located outside Rio de Janeiro.

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It sits in our tidy bins, finds its way to the larger garbage containers that some hardworking person, usually a man, has the good fortune to dump into a huge super-compacting truck where said item journeys to a HUMUNGOUS landfill to sit for anywhere from a few years to, much more commonly, a few centuries2.

When they starved the yeast, the scientists found that the cells developed unusually large vacuoles, the cellular garbage dumps that collect materials to be recycled.

Resource subsidies, such as garbage or hunters» carcass dumps, can also support larger predator populations, leading to greater predation pressure.

I buy 4 different varieties, dump them into a large, plastic garbage can, and mix them all together.

These gatherings tend to happen near large food sources such as garbage dumps and shopping centers.

Late last month, the collaborative filled the prestigious front room of Houston's McClain Gallery with a show of large, many - layered mixed - media works that riff on Arnold Böcklin's late 19th - century «Isle of the Dead,» substituting the Hudson River, a garbage dump and the New York skyline for the original's dreamy setting.

In 2010, Brazilian photographer Vik Muniz participated in an interesting two - year project which took place at the world's largest open - air garbage dump, in collaboration with the local trash pickers — Gramacho catadores.

These days New York's waste from those ubiquitous white garbage collection trucks is dumped onto the floor of waste transfer stations that are typically located in poor neighborhoods, and then loaded onto large trucks for shipment out of New York City.

A dump truck operator drives large trucks that transport and dump waste materials like sand, gravel, rock or non-degradable garbage.