Sentences with phrase «waste dumping projects»

All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for resource extraction — or waste disposal.This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities in the face of various «development» or waste dumping projects.

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The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N. - backed alliance said on Sunday.

Instead, the law directs the agency to run 10 pilot projects across the country in which dredged sediment will be used to restore and protect coastlines instead of being dumped as waste, often at sea.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Beaches are often dumping grounds for waste and litter, necessitating the use of beach cleaners and other cleanup projects.

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.

The World Bank has said it will cooperate with the Istanbul Municipality on a $ 336 million project to remediate illegal waste dumps and rehabilitate rivers in an attempt to prevent future disasters.

The other, perhaps most intriguing aspect of the project is that currently, sugar cane waste is just being dumped and treated as garbage.