Sentence examples for landfill around from inspiring English sources

Granville Island, directly beneath the Granville Street Bridge, was an industrial area in False Creek that was created with landfill around two small sandbars and transformed into a peninsula in the mid-1960s.

"One more landfill around here and the toxin levels in the buffalo milk will go over the safety limit," says Ettore Corvino of the Caserta region Coldiretti Farmers Association, staring at a stinking municipal tip, now closed, near Caserta.

According to leading expert Charles Moore, founder of Algalita Marine Research Foundation, while by EPA's latest report, 8.2percentt of plastics get recycled in America, and about 40percentt go to landfill, around 50percentt go unaccounted for when they become waste and much of that waste ends up in our oceans.

The local company dumped it in landfills around the capital.

"There are some 900 small landfills around the nation like ours," he said.

Kathryn Forsyth, a spokeswoman, said BFI would load garbage into sealed trains and haul it to landfills around the country.

The dispute originated last year when Greece faced millions of euros in fines after missing a July 2010 deadline for razing hundreds of illegal landfills around the country.

Michael Condon, BP's environmental unit leader, said that tests have shown that the material is not hazardous, and can safely be stored in landfills around the region that accept oil industry debris.

In 2006, despite much progress, Goodyear, one of the world's largest tyre companies, was still sending waste to landfills around the world and defined waste as anything it no longer required.

"If Fresh Kills had been like other landfills of the 1940's, it would have been shut down in the 60's," said William Rathje, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona and the founder of the Garbage Project, which studies landfills around the world.

Parts of the original Giuliani plan could be revived and refined, with the idea of retrofitting marine transport terminals that already exist around the city, from which garbage would be barged to railroad hubs for shipment to landfills around the country.