Sentence examples for rubbish burning from inspiring English sources

Police in the French capital have implemented emergency measures because of the pollution, ordering a halt to rubbish burning and lowering speed limits.

Before it was abolished last year in the local-government reorganisation, Cleveland County Council signed a 25-year deal with a rubbish-burning power station.

A government study concluded that the dangers from rubbish-burning were small: the department for the environment says that Bonfire Night produces more dioxins and particulates in a single evening than every incinerator in the country emits in a year.

This could either force councils to cut back on burning, or electricity firms to demand an increase in the 2% levy on electricity bills in England and Wales (0.7% in Scotland) which people pay to cover the cost to the firms of buying power from alternative power sources such as rubbish-burning.

There are worries that burning rubbish may discourage recycling.

Air pollution is caused by traffic fumes, industrial emissions, construction dust, burning rubbish and more.

A shotgun cartridge buried amid burning rubbish exploded in his face.

By contrast, homeowners burning rubbish in their backyards are reckoned to contribute up to 500 grams a year.

Some are hunting for electric stoves to cook on; others are burning rubbish or even furniture to make meals.

The streets were still littered with burnt bodies, broken glass, tyres, discarded furniture and burning rubbish on Tuesday.

The regulators who say that burning rubbish is now safe were making the same claim when incinerators were still spewing out dioxins.