The Basel Convention on the control of trans boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal was meant to level the playing field between countries that produce toxic waste and those that potentially consume it.

We obviously use cropland, grazing land, forests, and fishing grounds to produce our food, fiber, and timber, and we need space for our houses, roads, and cities.

Moreover, we require areas to absorb the waste emitted by our energy use.

America's radioactive waste may be targeted in terrorist attacks.

The waste is separated into recyclable materials (plastics, metals) and organic waste.

Factory waste has polluted the sea.

The Wild West of Electronic Waste

The vehicle scrappage programme will resume on September 1

E waste Leftovers of an irresponsible technological advance.

As a result, most Africans use biomass (animal and vegetable wastes and firewood) for lighting, cooking, and heating.

Trade virtual water the amount of water that is embodied in producing a product (usually food) and shipping it somewhere else to be used.

160 Trade virtual water the amount of water that is embodied in producing a product (usually food) and shipping it somewhere else to be used.

About 450,000 tons of this used oil is collected as waste for recycling or disposal.

Man, how can you compost inorganic waste?!

It can be divided into two main classes.

Previously, a similar vehicle scrappage programme operated in Russia.

We want a sustainable solution to Lebanon s waste disposal problem.

Barmini's APFI Barelec does not use a filter.

We all know we need to recycle more.

Chen Shui Bian should eat this .

A homeless man who makes a living collecting paper.

I recycle and take care of the environment.

Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material.

Horticulture and vegetables use an astonishing amount, says Nate Leonard, field coordinator for Cornell University s Recycling Agricultural Plastics Program.

The whole Budapest is drinking these industrial poisons and carcinogenic by products!

I see crushed plastic, piles of medical waste, IV tubes and infusion bags lying on the ground in warehouse and people coming to buy them, I caught hold of one of the kids who works there, to my utter shock he tells me that local manufacturers who make plastic products even down to utensils come and buy this scrap to reuse!

On September 1, the activities of the vehicle scrappage programme in Russia will resume.

No more nuclear waste has been shipped to Orchid island.

Nuclear energy presents a number of disadvantages, owing to concerns about safety and disposal of radioactive waste.

The organic waste is processed in a fermentation plant, producing compost and methane, which is used to produce electricity in a 25 megawatt power plant.

She estimates that about 40 percent or more of the agricultural plastic collected for recycling goes to export, typically to China or elsewhere in Asia.

There was hardly any waste generated in a typical household.

The West was responsible for all the pollution and waste in the first place.

We will move all the nuclear waste out of Orchid Island before the end of 2002.

According to the organizers, a total of 418.5 kilogrammes of waste were collected, out of which 100 kgs were plastic, one and a half kgs of aluminium and 317 kgs of non recyclable waste.

The only thing we ask for is the removal of nuclear waste from Orchid Island.

The waste gets converted into compost, which can then be used as manure.

Until a few years ago, the waste was dumped into a fetid, stinking, noxious landfill.

Nuclear power manages without both of them, but leaves behind itself a mass of wastes expensive to recycle.

EBRD agreed to assist Bishkek in setting up a waste collection and disposal system on a mixed loan and grant basis.

It'll actually begin to digest these wastes and, over the next five days, assemble them into biocomposites.

Its waste sludge reservoirs, however, are being used for hazardous waste produced elsewhere.

He picks up plastic and solid refuse with his hands and de silts the drain using a spade and his bare hands.

Relaves.org is a group whose mission is to make the Chilean government take responsibility for abandoned mine tailings (ore waste of mines) and promote their mitigation.

To focus on how many species have become extinct, or will go extinct, obscures the fact that a large number of species have become greatly contracted in the range of their habitats, primarily due to human activity. We appropriate land and resources for our purposes, release harmful wastes, and introduce alien species that displace natives.