Sentence examples for waste mountains from inspiring English sources

Plus there's the cleaning of animal "waste," mountains of it, most just as rank as ours.

Any council seeking to dig its way out of this hole by excavating new sites will struggle to find the money: waste mountains are soon to attract fines from Brussels - a recognition of the reality that as they rot they release methane, one of the more potent greenhouse gases.

Yet, the fee-for-service model causes this country to waste mountains of time waiting to get appointments and then in the waiting room in order to facilitate the face-to-face appointment.

Forestry land covers 267.43 million hm, but only 76.62 million hm of waste mountains and land is suitable for tree planting, accounting for 28.6% of the woodland area.

Britain's waste mountain remains an environmental scandal.

Last year, Tesco's food waste mountain amounted to 59,400 tonnes.

It costs £3bn a year to manage the nuclear waste mountain, of which £2bn comes from taxpayers.

Consumers and businesses are replacing their kit at an ever increasing rate, creating a new waste mountain.

"The Government should also back progressive policy on waste at EU level to make a start on reducing our waste mountain".

If the coalition is really serious about tackling our waste mountain it should commit itself to halving Britain's black bag waste by 2020.

The figures aren't easy to disentangle, but certainly the consumer is as much to blame for the waste mountain as the food industry.