The phrase "sorting garbage" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically refers to the act of separating different types of waste materials for recycling or disposal. Example: "The city has implemented a new program for sorting garbage, requiring residents to separate their recyclables from their regular trash."
Paying a toll on the East River bridges might seem too simple, too antiseptic, too easy by comparison with the mortification of sorting garbage.
He tried sorting garbage at the same dump where Mr. He and his family now operate, and found that he could make $70 a month, he recalled in an interview.
Shameen Sheikh, a neighbor, said Chand would occasionally bring home some money from sorting garbage, but more often he spent the days hanging out with his friends in the abandoned mill where the rape is said to have taken place, sometimes coming home drunk.
In the past, environmental education efforts in Taiwan were very effective at getting Taiwan's citizens to adopt a more responsible attitude towards environmental sustainability, sorting garbage, and recycling.
APE has also helped the Zebaleen develop cleaner ways of sorting garbage with the help of a group of professionals who volunteered their time for the development of the compost plant.
The crime was also being avidly discussed in Jai Bhavani Nagar and Madanpura, among the city's oldest and most densely populated slums, whose residents earn money selling vegetables or bangles or sorting garbage.
When we take the time and trouble to sort garbage for recycling, we feel that we're doing our part.
Besides cracking down on littering — not an easy feat in a country where rolling down the car window and tossing out a piece of trash remains a reflex — the company requires residents to sort garbage into recyclables.
Then there is cracking down on common errors: the inclusion of cans of wet paint in the garbage (paint must be dried out; adding cat litter does the trick); tossing pizza boxes in with recyclable cardboard (they are too gray); and not bothering to sort garbage.
"A pile of garbage is obtrusive, but the human touch: sorting the garbage, arranging it according to the colors and forms, create a new aesthetic object," notes Gintalaitė.
Yet people today really think they are saving the planet by carefully sorting their garbage for recycling, thus doing their little bit for the earth.
