Sentence examples for tonnes of material from inspiring English sources

The impact knocked thousands of tonnes of material into space.

This has enabled us to divert thousands of tonnes of material from landfill.

At its peak, six ships arrived at Wallasea each day, unloading 8,000 tonnes of material.

Ibrahim Ali Eid, who works for a large scrap yard in Mafraq, purchases between 30 and 45 tonnes of material a month from the project.

The Office for National Statistics data revealed that on average people used 15 tonnes of material in 2001 compared with just over 10 tonnes in 2013.

Texon processes 600 tonnes of material every year, so this innovation also means 147,600 pairs of trainers will become CO2 neutral.

Only a tenth of the 5m tonnes of materials required has so far been let in, says the UN.

At the end of 2010, 5.7m tonnes of materials were held on LME warrant in 709 storage facilities across 39 locations internationally.

Carbon emissions would be considerably lower with a global carbon price, less than half the level of the reference case (29 37 billion tonnes of CO2 instead of 74 billion tonnes) and also material use would grow much more slowly under a carbon price and significant investment to increase resource efficiency (95 instead of 180 billion tonnes of materials).

At present, approximately 16 tonnes of materials are used per capita each year in the EU, of which 10 tonnes go into material stock (infrastructure, housing, durable goods) and 6 tonnes leave the economy as waste.

At present, it takes a tonne of material to generate one gram of gold.