Waste and lower growth because of poor tax policy will only make the fiscal hole harder to fill. The new tax will do little to reduce Britain's budget deficit.

由于差劲的税收政策，浪费和低增长将会使财政漏洞更难填补，而新税收对减少英国财政赤字起作用甚少。

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Scraping 4cm of topsoil from contaminated farmland in Fukushima prefecture would create more than 3m tonnes of waste, says the agriculture ministry, enough to fill 20 football stadiums.

农业部说将福岛地区污染农田表面刮去4厘米厚的土壤将导致30万吨的粮食浪费。 如果把这些粮食堆起来都足以填满20个足球场。

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Can you imagine what the outcry would have been if a corporation had planned to fill it with low-level waste from a nuclear plant?

你可以想象出如果一个公司决定填埋核电厂废料时候反对的呼声能有多高。

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The Sellafield plant is the UK's largest and most hazardous nuclear site, storing enough high and intermediate level radioactive waste to fill 27 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are in negotiations with Blixseth over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of waste without a permit and the deposit of fill material in wetlands.

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Americans generate 2.5 million tons of e-waste a year more than enough to fill a line of dump trucks from our Nation's capital to Disney World.

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