Sentence examples for forms of litter from inspiring English sources

Moreover, unlike other forms of litter, like cigarette butts and beer cans, plastic shopping bags fly.

Here, we provide evidence that urban artificial reefs have a high potential to accumulate the diverse forms of litter originating from anthropogenic activities around cities. We test the hypothesis that the structural complexity of urban breakwaters, when compared with adjacent natural rocky intertidal habitats, is a driver of anthropogenic litter accumulation.

As a result, the abiotic catabolism imposed by photooxidation of this unique form of canopy litter will exceed that of other forms of litter.

(6) In contrast, the proportion of decay attributed to comminution by detritivorous insects and mites will be greater than in other forms of litter due to a greater length of time that these detritivores can feed on the dead materials.

When the dead leaflet material is ultimately detached, its quality will be disparate from that of other forms of litter due to preferential long-term leaching of soluble materials like potassium, phosphorus, sugars, and phenolics.

(4) Leaching of soluble materials will be greater in this typhoon-generated litter than in other forms of litter because precipitation is initially intercepted by the upper canopy and the dead material will remain exposed to leaching processes for much greater lengths of time than suspended detached litter or ground litter.

A bill to ban the bags --a cofmon form of litter -- is due next week.

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter in Britain, the MPs were told, but Giles Roca, director general of the Tobacco Manufacturers Associationn, said that local authorities and the Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) organisation refused to speak to the industry.

The Irish use 1.2 billion bags every year, or 325 per person, he said, and they are the most visible form of litter in the countryside, where they get caught in trees and hedges and along riverbanks.

Plastic waste in the form of litter enters running water in different ways according to nature and ultimately contaminates the marine environment (Obradors and Aguilar 1991).

(2) Initial quality of this form of litter will be greater than the other forms of suspended litter that are generated by interception of naturally abscised leaves.