Sentence examples for landfill volume from inspiring English sources

Paper, on the other hand, counts for more than 40percentt of landfill volume, and like the guacamole, it stubbornly resists biodegradation.

Companies have dramatically reduced the quantity of petroleum products and pine-pulp "fluff" in disposable diapers, cutting the use of forest products and landfill volume.

Meanwhile, when the dewatered sludge is incinerated instead of landfilling, both CO2-equivalent emissions and landfill volume decrease.

At the optimum moisture conditions, 68% more waste could be placed in the same landfill volume compared to the baseline conditions.

Overall, moisture addition during compaction increased unit weight, the amount of incoming wastes disposed in a given landfill volume, biological activity potential, and predicted settlement.

Major questions remain with respect to actual methane production rates in field settings and the relative mass of methane that is recovered, emitted, oxidized by methanotrophic bacteria, laterally migrated, or temporarily stored within the landfill volume.

Landfill volumes and greenhouse gas emissions are minimized, toxic organic materials are mineralized, heavy metals are concentrated in a small fraction of the total former solid waste volume, and the accumulation of atmophilic metals in the air pollution control residues allows new recycling schemes to be designed for metals.

I would rather be strapped to a chair and made to listen to The X Factor Songbook than Now That's What I Call Landfill Indie Volume One, or even four bars of a Bob Dylan vocal.

The upshot was abundant power, cheaper than the natural gas it replaced; a multimillion-dollar revenue stream for LaGrange; longer life for its landfill, whose volume decreases as methane is drawn off; and a more pleasant environment for the dump's neighbors.

It is a $20 billion dollar business in the U.S. and occupies an estimated 25% of the country's landfill by volume.

Not surprisingly -- in an information age -- it is paper, which takes up over 40percentt of the contents of landfills by volume.