Sentences with phrase «volume of trash»

But the volume of trash that Americans continue to generate means we must rely on traditional means of disposal for some time.

Thus began a concerted effort to reduce the volume of trash by increasing recycling rates of used packaging in the U.S. Efforts to establish an economically viable infrastructure for various packaging materials and engage all stakeholders continue to this day.

Not exact matches

The nonprofit Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition reports that 70 percent of the heavy metals in U.S. landfills are from discarded electronics — even though the e-waste itself accounts for only two percent of the trash by volume.

70 percent of the heavy metals in U.S. landfills are from discarded electronics — even though the e-waste itself accounts for only two percent of the trash by volume

Plastic trash in the Arctic could harm wildlife and may hint that large volumes of human rubbish are collecting there, says Melanie Bergmann.

We still have the same number of trash pickers, but the volume and speed of the flow is way down on a fiber - deficient diet.

We still have the same number of trash pickers, but the volume and speed of the flow is way down, so they're finding all sorts of stuff that otherwise would have been lost.

The Atari volume focuses on old classics that many modern gamers would deride as ancient trash that, nonetheless, hold up in various ways and are a worthwhile opportunity to look back in time at how some of today's modern genres took their first steps out of the primordial gaming ooze.

I enjoyed the high volume chromaticism and barely contained gestural vocabulary of some of Helling's paintings, but then I could as easily trash one of the paintings as hopelessly self - indulgent.

The volume spans the duration of the artist's career to date, featuring his most important pieces from his seminal blue - plaque work, «Cave,» through his many signature - based artworks, egg sculptures and waxworks, to his more recent bronze casts of sleeping bags and trash bags.

This first volume in the series looks at Mann, the hockey stick's dramatic rise, its trashing of history, mishandling of data and risible statistical processes, and the bigger issues that arose in its wake: the politicization and then corruption of science, and the thuggish retaliation meted out to scientists brave enough to question it.

The City of Toledo «Recycling Fleet» could still go around every other week and collect only the Plastic and Metal portion of the waste stream identified in the 2003 state of Ohio study, previously cited, as consisting together of 20 % of the trash by weight and 32 % by volume.

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Your last sentence speaks volumes regarding the entitlement saavy Montreal / Quebec university students» (well, the separatist oriented students at least) obvious misuse of their freedom to trash a system that allows them to acquire post secondary education at about a third to half of the cost elsewhere in Canada, in order to decry the injustice of not getting it for free.