Shrinking landfill space and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling.
垃圾填埋场面积的缩小,以及填埋和焚烧垃圾成本的上升,都在迫使地方政府更深入地研究如何回收利用垃圾。
It will come as no surprise to learn that the main candidates spent their largest sums on flyers, leaflets, posters and other bumf destined for the landfill.
得知主要的候选人将他们最大的一笔钱花在传单、传单、海报和其他注定要被填埋的垃圾上时,这并不惊讶。
Landfill sites on the Iberian peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara desert to the western Sahel.
伊比利亚半岛上的垃圾填埋场长期以来一直吸引着当地的白鹳,但研究中标记的所有西班牙鸟类都飞越了撒哈拉沙漠,来到了萨赫勒的西部地区。
In addition, there is a household hazardous waste drop-off station for chemicals (paints, pesticides, other chemicals) that are banned from the landfill.
此外,还有一个家庭危险废物丢弃站,存放禁止掩埋的化学品(油漆、杀虫剂和其他化学品)。
Still, I try to do my part and keep the extras from heading to the landfill.
一直以来,我都在尝试做我的部分使得这些多余的东西免于投入垃圾填埋场。
Less toxic materials go in the landfill, more money goes into consumers' wallets.
它减少了填埋垃圾中的有毒物质,又让更多的钱进了消费者的腰包。
But waste in landfill emits greenhouse gases as it rots, and can poison groundwater.
但是,填埋场中的垃圾在腐烂过程中会释放出温室气体,也会污染地下水。
New York plans to build a huge park on top of the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island.
纽约计划将Staten岛上的FreshKills垃圾掩埋场改造成一个巨大的公园。
The rubble was then dumped in a municipal landfill site on the outskirts of Florence.
这堆碎石后来被倾倒在佛罗伦萨市郊的一处垃圾填埋场。
The firm’s liability lasts as long as the landfill continues to generate leachate or gas.
只要那些垃圾仍然产生渗透水和气体,公司就仍担负着处理的义务。
Reducing what goes into the landfill will reduce the amount of greenhouse gas that is emitted.
减少进入垃圾堆的东西将会减少产生的温室气体数量。
The landfill sits on a natural foundation of London clay which is more or less impermeable.
垃圾掩埋场以伦敦黏土为天然地基,其防渗效果极佳。
Eating foods that don't come with copious amounts of packaging saves from adding to landfill.
不吃那些品类丰富的包装食品,就更少地增加垃圾。
That figure is all the more remarkable because almost none of the non-landfill waste is burned.
更令人敬佩的是,在这百分之七十不需填埋的废品里,要被焚化的数目几乎为零。
More than half of the landfill gas is methane, which warms the planet 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.
垃圾填埋厂释放的大半气体都是甲烷,它使地球变暖的速度是二氧化碳的20倍。
She hopes Ameren will, as she puts it, "do the right thing" and not build a landfill in the floodplain.
她希望阿莫林公司做“正确的事”,而不是在河滩上建掩埋场。
Day 1 – 8 bags to Goodwill, 5 bags to recycling, 8 boxes to the consignment shop, and 1 bag to the landfill.
第一天——8袋子待捐赠物品、5袋子待回收废品、8袋子待托运物品和1袋子垃圾。
Engineers were sent to seek solutions abroad and came back with the idea of processing the landfill gas into clean energy.
工程师们被送往国外寻求解决方案,回来以后带回了新想法,把填埋气体变成清洁能源。
The island of Pulau Semakau, off the coast of Singapore, originally dedicated to fishin, was turned into a landfill in 1999.
离新加坡海岸不远的实马高岛(PulauSemakau)原先是个垂钓的好去处,但自1999年起小岛被变成一座垃圾填埋场。
When the gas is cooled, any hazardous elements in the waste end up sealed in a glassy slag that is safe to put into landfill.
当气体冷却,任何有毒的物质会被封在玻璃状的熔渣中,被安全的填埋。
With mountains of new trash arriving weekly, the landfill is expected to reach its storage limit 12 years earlier than planned.
随着每周新运来的垃圾山,预计填埋场的容量比原计划早12年接近饱和。
That should increase not just the amount of methane collected but also the capacity of the landfill, since waste shrinks as it rots.
这种方法不仅能增加沼气的收集量,而且能增大垃圾填埋场的容纳量,因为垃圾腐烂过程中体积会变小。
Last year, the company decided to expand the capacity of its landfill gas power plant, aiming to tap into the increasing amounts of trash.
去年,该公司决定为垃圾填埋气体发电厂扩容,决定处理更多的垃圾。
As liquid leaches through the landfill, it carries higher pH materials and the methanogens living among them to other areas of the landfill.
通过垃圾填埋场的液体渗透与过滤,可以运输高ph的物质,让产烷生物在垃圾场的其他区域得以存活。
Similarly, national averages feed into calculations of whether a product or its packaging are recycled, incinerated or put into landfill.
同样通过分析国民平均值就能知道某种产品或其包装是否进行了重复使用,被烧尽或是被填入垃圾场。
Similarly, national averages feed into calculations of whether a product or its packaging are recycled, incinerated or put into landfill.
同样通过分析国民平均值就能知道某种产品或其包装是否进行了重复使用,被烧尽或是被填入垃圾场。
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