Sentences with phrase «people dispose of waste»

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There have been cases where we have certainly needed to know — such as where people are disposing of waste material by dumping it off the coast of Africa.

Underground aquifers can be identified by aboveground formations, helping officials bring cleaner water to people by pointing out where not to place a landfill or dispose of toxic waste.

Many people have a basic understanding about how to dispose of their waste, but poverty, politics and prejudice often get in the way.

Students are to construct a piece of art that will show the changes in the way people used materials and disposed of their waste over the past 400 years.

The rules would include notice that people should enter the fenced - in portion of the park at their own risk and that they should bag and dispose of dog waste and keep their dogs under control at all times.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

And for people who separate the liquid and solid toilet waste (usually using some sort of funnel system), how can you legally dispose of the urine?

With the coming of industrialisation and globalisation that has changed; the actions of everyone, in what and how much we consume, how much water we use and what we do with our waste water, how we dispose of our rubbish; what chemicals we use and how we use them, what plants, animals, or diseases we spread from one country to another — all these things can effect other people, and not just those close to us.

These items, to people such as myself who pay close attention to how much and what kind of waste is generated within the household or wish to minimize possessions, are more of a burden than a kindness because eventually they must be disposed of or donated (which often means landfilled in the long run).

Beginning in 2001, Monterrey, Mexico — a modern city of nearly four million people that disposes of over 4,500 tons of municipal solid waste a day in the Metropolitan Solid Waste Processing landfill — attempted to harvest methane from the landfill for electricity while reducing methane emissions.

For people looking to both dispose of their food waste and enrich their soil for gardening purposes, there's no better solution.