Sentence examples for waste pit from inspiring English sources

The significance of the Chinese bottle is that it was found in the 1960s in an ancient waste pit in Egypt, a surprising location.

In Pennsylvania, a herd suffered a 50 per cent stillbirth rate after cows grazed in a field contaminated with chemicals spilling from a waste pit.

When the workers are done, the excess trash and cleaning fluid is gathered up, and either resold or tossed into a waste pit on the edge of town.

A few miles outside Lago Agrio, we stood on the lip of a waste pit, and Craig told me that the vile-looking residue on its surface was only a few inches thick.

And it is safer to have a few central dumps that are monitored than a waste pit on each of the thousands of drilling sites throughout the Bakken shale field, said John McCain, the executive vice president and principal engineer at Carlson McCain, the engineering company designing the landfill proposed in Ross.

Máxima has bravely stood her ground against the second biggest gold mining company in the world, Newmont, which sought to drain the pristine Lake Azul (near her 18-acre farm) and turn it into a waste pit for mine by-products.

Some lawyers say that leases should explicitly prohibit waste pits.

The next year, after lobbying by the plaintiffs, Correa visited the Oriente, and surveyed the waste pits.

Pruitt has visited East Chicago, Indiana, and also the San Jacinto waste pits, outside Houston — dumping grounds for dioxins and other toxic chemicals.

It gouged more than 900 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor — pits which to this day leach toxic waste into soils and groundwater.

From broken pipes and waste pits, sewage trickled and sometimes flowed into a tributary of one of Haiti's major rivers.