Sentence examples for layers of waste from inspiring English sources
While the top layers of waste are more tightly compressed, owing to better technology, the bottom layers are compacted by the weight of everything above.
But in February 1996, a 14-foot-thick ice jam careered down river, leading to fears that it would take out part of the dam and unleash layers of waste.
Worse still, most of the ills he listed – hospitals failing to balance their books, overlapping layers of waste and bureaucracy, irrational decisions about who gets treated where – arise from reforms of the kind he wants to extend.
ICICI, an Indian bank, has cut the transaction costs of banking to far below those of its competitors by adding lots of new features to mobile-phone banking and cutting out layers of waste, says the bank's Mr Vaidyanathan.
Under layers of waste and deprived of the air and water that aid decomposition, a newspaper buried in a landfill might remain intact for more than 30 years and a disposable baby diaper 10 times as long.
Dredged clay has been re-used as a construction material, backfilling of quay walls, artificial barrier layers of waste disposal sites, and submerged embankments by proper treatment with cement.
Sometimes I'll add a semi-decomposed layer of waste and wormcasts from one of my wormeries, too, which is another great heap booster.
3. The tank is topped with a layer of waste from equipment decontamination efforts conducted in Hanford's T-Plant in the 1960s.
Six years ago, the worst coal ash spill in United States history occurred when 1.1 billion gallons of grey sludge burst through a dike at a Tennessee Valley Authority TVAA) facility in Kingston, Tennessee, destroying homes, burying surrounding land with a thick layer of waste, and contaminating nearby rivers.
Two different trench designs were considered, one with four rows of small waste packages (old design), the other with three layers of larger waste packages (new design).
They result from the percolation of rain water through layers of solid waste, to which is added water from biochemical processes in waste's cells and water that comes from wastes themselves.
