Sentence examples for rubbish generated from inspiring English sources

His personal revelations are moving, and The Moth Snowstorm left me as grief-stricken as any environmental journalist must be after a career digesting facts such as that, by 2020, the volume of urban rubbish generated in China is expected to reach 400m tonnes – equivalent to the entire world's trash in 1997.

Andrew Plant takes a look at the amount of rubbish generated at Glastonbury every day and the efforts to recycle as much as possible.

They are running out of good places for landfills and are turning instead to burning rubbish, generating electricity at "waste-to-energy" plants like the one in Hangzhou.

Nearly all rubbish is generated by city-dwellers, and in a new report on municipal solid waste (MSW), the World Bank warns of the potential costs of dealing with an ever-growing deluge of garbage.

During the course of the festival around 2,000 tonnes of rubbish are generated and this year the organisers are hoping to recycle more than 50% of it.

The government's $120m£76.8m8m) Reppie project, being built to EU emissions standards, will incinerate the city's rubbish to generate 50MW of electricity.

Strip out this effect, and it seems that pricing rubbish collection has no significant effect on recycling at all.Does all this mean that the idea of charging households for the rubbish they generate is daft?

In areas of Britain where the dustmen come round only every other week, recycling rates are 10% higher than elsewhere.Another tactic is to make households pay by volume for the rubbish they generate, rather than through a flat fee or through local taxes.

A new plant would either incinerate rubbish to generate energy or use composting techniques.

As China has developed rapidly and its citizens become more affluent, increasing amounts of rubbish are being generated.

"All this talk about attack dogs is rubbish meant to generate mass hysteria and pressure politicians to do something.