Sentence examples for electrical waste from inspiring English sources

The Environment Agency estimates that some 11,500 shipping containers are illegally exported from the UK each year containing either household or electrical waste – the equivalent of 200,000 tons of material a year.

The update to the 2003 waste from electrical and electronic equipment (Weee) directive followed hard-fought bargaining over how to improve the recovery of computers and other electronic and electrical waste, much of which was either dumped in landfills or shipped abroad for disposal because of the high cost of recycling in Europe.

Food can be turned into biogas (a renewable energy resource); more pure gold can be extracted from a tonne of electrical waste than from a tonne of unprocessed gold ore; and whatever remains can be burnt cleanly to power turbines and generate electricity.

"All of this electrical waste has chemicals inside them," he says.

New regulations in Europe require producers to take back and recycle electronic and electrical waste.

It barely makes a dent in the world's rapidly increasing mountain of electrical waste.

This paper discusses the use of vertical vibration to recover valuable materials from electrical wastes.

Concrete made with ceramic electrical insulator waste as coarse aggregate shows good workability, compressive, tensile and flexural strengths and modulus of elasticity.

His approach requires a considerable amount of commitment to where the dining table is located: electrical, water, and waste utility lines are routed to the dishwasher from the floor beneath the table.

The CWAs used in the experiment are ceramic electrical insulator wastes supplied by an electric power company in Japan, which were crushed and ground to various sizes prior to the replacement of fine aggregates.

Consequently, there has been a surge in electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) materials in the waste stream of these countries [ 2– 4].