Sentence examples for waste make up from inspiring English sources

Bryan Jones, Monmouthshire's cabinet member for county operations, said: "Nappies and similar waste make up about 5% of our waste stream - that's 2,375 tonnes a year.

And as of 1 January 2015, Seattle requires that food waste make up no more than 10% by volume of any resident's or business's trash.

Food waste makes up roughly one-third of all household waste.

Apart from empty containers, paper waste makes up the bulk of what goes the other way.

Nationally, low level waste makes up 90% of nuclear waste by volume, but in total contains less than one-thousandth of 1% of the radioactivity, said the NDA.

Food waste makes up more than 30 percent of the city's daily trash, according to the mayor's office, and restaurants account for 70 percent of that produced by businesses.

Organic waste made up a higher proportion of New York City's garbage stream at the century's end, mainly from paper, than in any period before -- four times higher than it was in 1905, and almost twice as high as it was on the eve of World War II.

With up to 40% of the food supply in the U.S. ending up in the landfill, and organic waste making up the second highest component of landfills (thus resulting in the largest source of methane emissions), simply addressing the supply side of the issue will only get us so far: food wasted also means wasted GHG emissions.

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

In 2006 e-waste made up 5 percent of the total solid waste stream, and the United Nations Environment Programme estimated that developed countries would triple their output of e-waste by 2010.

That's good news, because the federal Environmental Protection Agency reports that two-thirds of the country's solid waste is made up of organic materials.