waste mountain

We all recognise that the size of our waste mountain needs to be reduced.

He could not waste mountains as could the angry earth.

However, we should do this for the environment and should continue doing this, because the waste mountain is still growing.

The slate waste mountains or Slag heaps that were left behind from decades of mining are now being put to use as materials for roads.

The way things now stand, there's nothing to prevent us from getting wasted mountains and polluted drinking water, and a ruined climate to boot.

Through measures which encourage recycling and the minimum creation of waste, the waste mountain can be reduced, which is necessary.

Strangely, they do not breathe a word about the enormous waste mountains they create for us and which will present us with major problems for the next ten thousand years.

His comments on the experience also reflected pleasure and repulsion, citing a "wasted mountain" that showed itself to the world as a "noble ruin" (Part III, Sec.

Despite the fact that landfill is considered the least-favoured option for waste disposal in Europe, Ireland comes top of the EU list for using landfill to dispose of its huge waste mountains.

It was formerly a track of waste mountain and was claimed by no particular person, but of late years there has several poor people settled upon it and cultivated about 58 acres which produce oats and potatoes.

I should like to take the opportunity to put a couple of questions to Commissioner Fischer Boel, who is with us this evening: does the Commission have a strategy for reducing the ever growing waste mountain in the EU?

What I would be looking for there is that you've got a council, I don't know how many people there are, and you've got a thousand plus tonnes of waste you know you've got a waste mountain being produced.

I therefore have great sympathy for the proposals which the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection has put forward, demanding tough measures, partly to reduce the waste mountain through more recycling, and partly to ensure that what is dumped has a minimal environmental impact.

We have been out for a walk on the West German waste mountains in what was formerly East Germany and we have received reports about the sending of dangerous waste to developing lands who have to pay for development aid by providing storage space for dangerous waste.