Sentence examples for environmental scourge from inspiring English sources

The landfill is perceived not only as an environmental scourge but also as a threat to subsistence at a time of rising unemployment.

Her business would not only help tackle an environmental scourge, it would also provide work and income for women and their families.

Theresa May has branded plastic waste an environmental scourge, and MPs have called for charges on plastic bags to be extended to disposable coffee cups.

New evidence suggests that a nutrient that is both essential to life and an environmental scourge when present in large quantities is also increasing in the open ocean, according to a new study in the journal Science.

New evidence suggests that a nutrient that is both essential to life and an environmental scourge when present in large quantities is increasing in the open ocean, according to a new study published May 19 in the journal Science.

Since acquiring Keurig, the inventor of a single-serve coffee machine and its patented K-Cups, the company has become the driving force behind what critics say is an environmental scourge – the throwaway coffee pods made of plastic and aluminum foil that waste energy and materials, and are all but impossible to recycle.

May last week called plastic waste "one of the great environmental scourges of our time".

And if so, can this protector gene be used to develop methods for defending everyone against environmental scourges?

The byproducts of two environmental scourges in Southeast Asia have similarly been transformed into furniture at the hands of Bannavis Andrew Sribyatta, founder and design director of a Miami design firm, Project Import Export.

The authors laid out a "generous and compelling vision of global society," which would include "humanitarian intervention against genocidal violence; family planning; effective cooperation against global warming and other environmental scourges"; foreign aid; free trade; and large investments to combat AIDS.

The prime minister, Theresa May, and environment secretary, Michael Gove, have both made high-profile pledges to act on the plastic pollution that is devastating the oceans and littering the land, which May called "one of the great environmental scourges of our time".