Which is odd, as we produce some 100 million cubic metres of waste each year (this includes all the building rubble etc).
That morning Russian dive-bombers reduced the building to rubble.
Now Kael went about the business of building a structure in the rubble.
The four men who are unaccounted for are believed to be trapped under concrete rubble in the building's basement, where many of the men were seeking shelter, Mr. Mokdad said.
The coalition, he said, faced a gargantuan task of building a new economy from the rubble of the old.
Clothing and order forms from a half dozen Western brands were found in the rubble of the toppled building outside Dhaka, including Canadian retail giant Loblaw Cos.
"A search and rescue team may arrive at a collapsed building and throw transceivers into the rubble, hoping to detect the breathing of anyone still alive inside, " Patwari and colleagues write.
ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives
But amid all the misery, rescuers continue to have their efforts rewarded -- a woman and her one-year-old baby were pulled almost unscathed from the rubble of a collapsed building, as was a young man who'd spent a-hundred-and-three hours without food or water.
Emergency workers were still trying to pull out victims trapped in the rubble when part of the building collapsed, police told the Reuters news agency.
Then, taking advantage of the opening caused by the passage of a truck, Atiq manages to squeeze into a less turbulent side street and hastens, despite his limp, toward a building that stands oddly upright amid an expanse of rubble.
About 10 of the 40 or so apartments in the building were affected and a search for possible survivors under the rubble was under way, he said.
Crews had to fight flames on the tail of the plane, search a smoke-filled building for occupants, and attend to car drivers trapped by falling rubble.
Like the constant construction in Beijing and Shanghai, Tokyo was on a fast-forward spree of tear-downs and building, clearing the flimsy structures put up hastily after clearing the firebombing rubble.
Almost 1, 000 people sat or lay on the ground outside a government sports building in Jiegu, some wrapping themselves with quilts they had taken from rubble, and others used their own tents, the Xinhua news agency reported.
States Works began temporary repairs at 07:00 BST by filling the hole in the road with rubble taken from the site of the recently demolished Les Beaucamps School building.
BBC: Guernsey's Perelle coast road collapses after high tide
"All of a sudden there was shaking and we were in rubble, " Christian Obele, a Pemex employee who was in the building at the time, told Milenio TV.
Baay was working near the building at the time of the blast, and ran over to start digging into the rubble with his bare hands to try to rescue those trapped beneath.
However, this appears to have been contradicted by reports of sometimes poorly-equipped volunteers scrabbling through the rubble and the apparent starting of a fire by people trying to cut their way through the building.
It is perhaps this painstaking, time-consuming, brick-by-brick search for bodies that has allowed the rescuers to find a woman alive in the rubble on Friday, 12 days after the last survivor was found and 17 days after the building went down.
应用推荐