Sentence examples for which landfill from inspiring English sources

The Army Corps and other contractors worked with the city's Sanitation Department to separate hazardous items like paint cans, propane tanks and car batteries, which landfill operators will not accept.

The Evaluation of Post-Closure Care (EPCC) methodology is a performance-based approach in which landfill performance is assessed in four modules including leachate, gas, groundwater, and final cover.

Imagine a world in which landfills no longer exist, corporations make money while replenishing, cleansing and protecting natural resources, and consumers express their ethics with every purchase.

The extent to which landfill-related toxic exposures contribute to adverse health effects in people remains unknown.

One mechanism through which landfills can affect health is through direct exposure to harmful toxicants found in landfill gases.

It is helpful for a landfill operator to be able to estimate the rate at which the landfill can accept leachate (the maximum infiltration or injection rate), the storage capacity of the landfill and the leachate retention time.

But the D.E.C., which oversees landfill operations, was never informed of the plan.

It also has a significant history as the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill, which was the largest landfill in the world before closing in 2001.

(America generates a total of 160 million tons of construction and demolition debris every year, 60percentt of which is landfilled).

An article on May 1 about biodegradable home products misstated the name of the university where researchers conducted the Garbage Project, which studied landfills for several decades beginning in the 1970s.

"It would probably be ejected in the final sort, then baled up with the other rigid plastics such as yoghurt pots and margarine tubs, which are landfilled or sometimes re-sorted in the Midlands".