Since 1960 the amount of municipal waste being collected in America has nearly tripled, reaching 245m tonnes in 2005.

自1960年以来，美国市区垃圾的总量几乎翻了三倍，在2005年达到了24.5亿吨。

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Reducing the amount of waste being produced makes a great deal of sense, provided it does not cost more, in either environmental or financial terms, than disposing of it in the usual way.

不轮就环境还是财政而言，倘若减少废弃物产生的花费不多于通常的废弃物处理费用，那减少废弃物的产量很有意义。

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Recently a campaign against food waste launched online might make you think twice about being so wasteful.

最近网上发起了一项反对浪费食物的活动，这可能会让你重新审视自己的浪费行为。

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Hershkowitz says,ideally, the Gulf cleanup's oily trash should be disposed of in an energy-producing furnace, but there are currently no facilities large enough to handle the volume of waste being generated by the cleanup efforts.

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You figure that most of those boxes are being eaten by somebody or another, there's some waste that you might calculate in, but there--error gets introduced there trying to estimate that, so you get a number on that.

你的计算中大部分食品,都被人们吃了,浪费的那些也要计算进来,但其中的误差,也要估算出来,最后得出一个数字

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He added that being at a news conference with Mr.Bush last December was an opportunity that he could not waste.

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In the last decade, the amount of waste being produced in Somerset has been falling steadily.

BBC: Landfill site, Dimmer, Castle Cary

Mark Ballard (Lothian, Green) asked about the progress the Executive is making on the amount of waste being produced and landfilled.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Scotland: First Minister's Questions (04/03/04)

But if reports about Soviet nuclear waste being dumped prove true, then Russia will have even more accusations of pollution to answer.

BBC: Sweden wants explanation on Baltic nuclear 'dumping'