Sentence examples for waste buried from inspiring English sources

The volume of hazardous waste buried at the Emelle facility fell dramatically from 791,000 tons in 1989 to 290,000 tons in 1991.

In another case last year in Florida, a state investigation discovered mass graves, dozens of misplaced bodies and mounds of medical waste buried in a cemetery.

At first, the United Nations said the base's handling of its waste met international standards — that it used sealed septic tanks, which were regularly emptied by a Haitian contractor, with the waste buried in a proper landfill.

For Chkalovsk, the end of Communism meant piles of uranium waste, buried under a few feet of soil in places where young shepherds now graze flocks of sheep and goats.

In another case, 14 death care corporations in Florida were stripped from a couple last year after a state investigation discovered mass graves, dozens of misplaced bodies and mounds of medical waste buried in one of their cemeteries.

A more surprising point is made by Friends of the Earth's waste campaigner Julian Kirby, who points out that because it is inert in landfill, plastic waste buried in the ground is a counterintuitive way of "sequestering" carbon and so avoiding it adding to global warming and climate change.

THERE are really only three things you can do with waste: bury it, burn it or recycle it.

In countries with the highest levels of pollution, neighborhoods often have no waste collection services and so residents are forced to burn their waste, bury it, or just ditch it in a nearby stream.

The case also pointed to a weakness in the government's broader plan for disposing of nuclear waste: burying it inside Yucca Mountain at a repository that the government is trying, in fits and starts, to open near Las Vegas.

The board heard presentations from three major nuclear companies on strategies for sorting out the components of nuclear waste: burying some, recovering others for use as fuel and putting some in reactors to be transformed into materials that are easier to handle.

If the mine gets all of its permits and is approved, Augusta's subsidiary, Rosemont Copper Company, will dump billions of tons of toxic mine waste burying some 4,000 acres of canyons, streams and prime wildlife habitat on the Coronado National Forest.