Sentence examples for discarded each year from inspiring English sources
As the article noted, only 2,600 kidneys are discarded each year.
Hundreds of millions of cellphones containing toxic chemicals are discarded each year, and many end up in landfills.
Annual figures from Wrap show that, in total, 15m tonnes of food are discarded each year in the UK, with households responsible for nearly half the waste.
The average power drill is used for less than 30 minutes in its lifetime and 35m paint brushes are discarded each year in the UK.
The government will call on councils and businesses to beef up plastic recycling capacity and better realise the financial value arising from the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste plastics discarded each year.
That number represents "less than 1percentt of the millions of phones retired and discarded each year and has had a negligible effect on the waste stream," the report said.
Efforts are growing in the meantime to recycle a greater fraction of the estimated 300 million tires that domestic drivers discard each year.
But they also leave behind thousands of miles of discarded nets each year — enough to cover the bank 400 times over, according to estimates.
The sculpture represents the average amount of garbage and recyclables that a person in Connecticut discards each year.
Tonnes of textile products are discarded as waste each year.
Gold worth more than £7bn is being thrown away amid the 42 million tons of electronic and electrical equipment discarded by consumers each year, according to United Nations experts.
