Sentence examples for landfilling from inspiring English sources

At the most basic level, recycling competes with landfilling.

Reduction, recycling, incineration, and landfilling.

Instead of landfilling or burning this waste, corn crop residue, through converting the cellulose contained in it, is being upgraded into useful products, starting with advanced biofuels (ethanol).

The cost for councils to send their waste to be burnt and turned into energy is comparable (or less b than landfilling.

Too often, narrow cost-benefit analyses like Mr. Tierney's ignore the public health and environmental costs associated with the increased pollution from landfilling or burning solid waste rather than productively reusing it.

"We wanted to stop landfilling hundreds of tons of sludge, but we wound up solving an internal inefficiency," said Donald L. Legg, Bell's director for environmental and industrial safety.

It is certainly true that, with 12bn pads and 7m tampons dumped into US landfills each year, Thinx offer an alternative that's kinder to the environment.

The future of UK government hopes to use local landfill sites to dispose of huge quantities of low-level nuclear waste will come under scrutiny today with the opening of a planning inquiry into the first such case.

This diverts resources to landfill and gives rise to greenhouse gas emissions, because the rotting food produces methane that is not captured and adds to the concentration of carbon in the air.

Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.

A dystopian hinterland where terror reigns, and everyone is a potential suspect and afraid of ending up in the "Landfill" – a place of unspeakable horror.