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

Scientists estimate that plastic waste kills more than a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals a year.

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.

We collect plastic bottles.

I refuse to use plastic bags.

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

Plastic bags are bad for the environment.

Factory waste has polluted the sea.

The Wild West of Electronic Waste

E waste Leftovers of an irresponsible technological advance.

Man, how can you compost inorganic waste?!

It can be divided into two main classes.

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.

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

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

No more nuclear waste has been shipped to Orchid island.

Plastic buckets, barrels, tubing and more are a huge part of modern agriculture.

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.

Soon the story books and the books of illustrations he carried on the back of his bicycle substituted plastic pistols and other time wasting toys.

Aiisha was the neighbors daughter who used to knock on our door every day to collect plastic bottles.

In Japan, plastic models of food are common outside of just about every eatery.

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.

His post Flying Bags shows children in a Caracas slum using bags in place of kites

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

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

Even those mundane, hateful, plastic grocery bags can become a bridge stronger than anyone imagined.

But then you arrive in the Little India district and, suddenly, the mold is broken plastic cups lay strewn across a bus stop.

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.

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.

Saw some uncivilized people who carelessly threw plastic bags and bottles into the river and played loud, irritating music inside the forest.

Residue from forest, agricultural, and agro industrial activities could be collected and converted.

We push that material to extruders where we melt it, push it through small die holes, make spaghetti like plastic strands.

And you might find it interesting that I became a garbage man, because I absolutely hate waste.

Halve that waste, and the world could feed an extra billion people and make hunger yesterday s problem.

The tourists litter empty plastic potato chip packs and polythene bags in the river from the steamboat, causing much harm to the environment.

According to a recent British meta analysis, ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching, and nitrous oxide emissions per unit of output were higher in organic systems than in conventional agriculture, as were land use and the potential for eutrophication adverse ecosystem responses to the addition of fertilizers and wastes and acidification.

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!