Consequently, dump site pits that received viable oyster mushroom spawn and ground wheat straw substrate recorded significant pH increases accompanied by considerable reductions in the concentrations of the mobile heavy metals (Fig. 2).
Bulldozers were brought in to pile up the bodies, which were dumped in pits across the region.
So far, 339 corpses have been found dumped in pits, left in sheds and stacked in vaults at the crematory.
In the 1960s huge piles of fly ash waste from coal fired power stations were dumped in pits along the Thames estuary, leaving a bleak, grey, landscape.
From Lanzmann's movie, you would not know that by the time of the Wannsee Conference, in Berlin, in January , 1942 in which the Final Solution was openly plotted by the S.S., perhaps a million Jews had already been killed, mainly by shootings in the places where they lived, the bodies dumped into pits and buried.
And the next year, in the bombed-out buildings of Bosnia and the horror of Srebrenica, where upwards of eight thousand defenseless men and boys were shot and dumped into pits," writes K. Annan in his recent memoir "Interventions: A Life in War and Peace", explaining the profound importance of pursuing justice.
Newborns are dumped in pit latrines and on benches every week, and many spend years in orphanages.
One morning, Hartley is at a Hutu refugee camp watching French soldiers dump bodies into pits.
Later Clarke takes me to a picturesque lakeside park built on what was the former dump for the pits.
In addition, most states do not ask energy companies to identify the fracking chemicals they pump into the earth or dump into wastewater pits sitting in people's backyards, and only six states call on companies to share that information with doctors and nurses treating patients living next to fracking operations.
