Sentence examples for discard up from from inspiring English sources

I believe that technology can do a better job separating trash from recyclables, and am working on creating a public-private partnership to construct and operate a high-tech recycling and sorting facility, diverting up to 75percentt of the material residents discard (up from Houston's current 14percentt) - using technology from the mining and refining industries, not individuals.

Elder discards up to five cards facedown and replaces them from the top of the talon.

The stock consisted mainly of English and French books picked up from students or discard shelves at the Sorbonne.

On the sidewalk, a lone "Always Anti-Fascist" poster — dropped or discarded during the day's chaos — stared up from the sidewalk.

"Shall I put it back on?" asks Stefano, the gondolier, bending down to pick the iron stern ornament up from where it is lying, discarded, beside the seats.

New revenue streams open up from materials that would otherwise be discarded, and disposal costs are avoided.

Discarding the staples will mostly be a matter of sweeping them up from the floor.

While Mr. Sullivan is busy in the kitchen, Mr. Young catches up on reading and sleep, or "tinkering" he said, weeding or picking up discarded bottles from the beach.

For a draining hour she and the others had worked the tarp, stitched together from discarded billboards, up and over the structure, which for the moment resembled a Buckminster Fuller-designed jungle gym.

I get the feeling you'd need to be as at home picking up discarded clothing from the floor as you would project-managing the construction of a frescoed basement theme bar – and getting it done, like, yesterday.

He would drive around the city, picking up discarded material from old roads that civic workers would dump on to the pavements.