Sentence examples for polluted land from inspiring English sources

But its industrial heritage also left a different legacy: polluted land along the waterfront.

Chinese citizens have become increasingly irate about food and beverages tainted with pesticides, illegal preservatives and additives, as well as industrial waste and heavy metals from polluted land and air.

The golf course was built largely on fallow, polluted land that was once crowded with factories: holes No. 4 and No. 5 were the slag pit for a company that made automobile brakes.

No Greater Clarity for Brownfields The future of a state program that provides tax credits for companies that decontaminate and redevelop polluted land appears to be as uncertain as ever.

The concept of using trees and plants to purify polluted land, a process called phytoremediation, is beginning to take root in America's $30 billion-a-year remediation industry.

It is an ambitious target to mitigate environmental impact of the petrochemical industry by rejuvenating polluted land as well as adding value to that land, or marginal land capitalisation, through the production of biomass.

Forced crop eradication programmes by aerial or manual spraying with chemicals kill both the drug crops that families and communities rely on, plus any food crops growing alongside, while polluting land and water.

Destroying family homes and communities and young people's educational opportunities, undermining renewables while polluting land, air and water with insane policies like fracking, this is all of our future.

Now, with water rights being bought and sold like oil, with dominant crops like cotton, alfalfa, chilies, onions and water-thirsty pecans (most of which are shipped to China, of all places), and with mega-dairies sporting thousands of cows dotting the landscape and polluting land, air and sometimes water, it's become a kind of food desert in the real sense of the word.

River banks that have stored toxic metals such as lead, zinc and cadmium for generations, could have been eroded and the toxins washed down stream, polluting land, animals and crops.

To address these air-quality concerns, the Pacific Institute recommended building new Bay Area housing and schools "far away from polluting land uses to protect the health of current and future residents," said Garzón, lead author of the report.