Sentence examples for tons of grass from inspiring English sources

He pledged to develop a program that would centralize the collection and disposal of 134,708 tons of grass clippings, bushes, hedges, leaves and small trees collected by the municipalities in 2001.

The test plot's new ability to absorb and hold water (thus reducing irrigation needs), coupled with the benefits of composting 500 tons of grass clippings, pruned branches, leaves and other material that was trucked off campus to the tune of $35,000 a year, quickly convinced Mr. Carbone that the program should be expanded.

Considering 11.8 Mg/ha (4.8 Mg/acre) annual grass straw yield (Ystraw) [ 38], it was calculated that 230,966 acres would be required to collect 250,000 metric ton of grass straw annually.

Other than pulling the cover over our heads and sleeping late, the most talked about options among progressives, as Robert Kuttner recently described them, are: 1) "a ton of grass-roots organizing to put pressure on the administration to change course".

Last year, twenty-five thofsand tons of esparto grass, used in making fine paper, represented ten per cent of the country's total exports.

Every year, 35 billion tons of dead grass and leaf litter get turned over by the worms and other soil fauna.

Mabey explains how 13,000 tons of canary grass seed, fodder for caged birds, comes into Britain every year, and is recycled into landfill sites, to leach into the water table, to drift down embankments and sewage-outfall tracks; bringing life and colour to the uniform greys of spurned and disregarded places.

They also have more than 78,000 tons a year of grass clippings not to put into plastic bags for collection and export at a cost to the city of $10 million.

Annually, 13 tons of fresh fodder (grasses and herbaceous species) are collected per household, of which 34%% are medicinal plants (Rabia and Khan 2004).

More than a million hungry wildebeest are on their way from Tanzania to Kenya's Mara National Reserve to raze tons of sweet red-oat grass.

"Water will continue to run through literally tons of this sediment and grass will grow through the sediment," said Brian Olding, an environmental consultant who authored a report on the Mount Polley Mine in 2011.