Sentence examples for tons of refuse from inspiring English sources

Large transfer stations can handle more than 500 tons of refuse per day.

After both Collyers were extracted, more than 100 tons of refuse was removed from the building.

The piles of trash are found throughout Tohoku — the disaster created an estimated 25 million tons of refuse.

For much of this year, the company shipped about 25 containers a day, each filled with 23 tons of refuse to be recycled.

They also know that the city could not function without them, that they dispose of a daunting 3.6 million tons of refuse each year.

New York City's 7.3 million people, plus the 34 million or so tourists who will have been through town this year, produce about 26,000 tons of refuse a day.

The current cost to dispose of one ton of refuse is more than $100; once the plant is fully operational and all Essex County trash is processed there, the cost is expected to drop to $65 a ton.

City sanitation officials say they expect about 25 tons of celebratory refuse.

"Food wastes make up about a third of our city's total of more than 20,000 tons of daily refuse," the mayor said.

Now the city should find, indeed create, better destinations for the 11,000 tons of household refuse that New Yorkers produce every day.

The mayor's vote earlier this year to approve the stadium complex also was permissible, Perez and Hanson said, even though a city-approved study shows that the development would generate thousands of tons of commercial refuse each year -- trash that evidently would be picked up by the mayor's company under the city franchise.