The environment in the landfills was not suitable for organisms that normally break down wood over time.

堆填区的环境不适合有机体，经过一段时间它们通常会把木材分解。

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The CFLs will release a monstrous 42 mg of toxic mercury into landfills .

而紧凑型荧光灯（节能灯）则会在垃圾填埋场释放出有毒汞42毫克。

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There were accidents in other landfills , which made for hazardous operations.

而其他垃圾填埋场发生过的事故更使人们认识到了工作中的危险。

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By buying or using inherited vintage furniture you rescue it from going to landfills .

而且通过购买或使用继承古董家具，还可以减少垃圾填埋区，减少了对环境的破坏。

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Fly ash is also disposed of in landfills and abandoned mines and quarries, posing a potential risk to people living around those areas.

废弃物填埋场、废矿和露天矿场也产生浮尘，对生活在周遭的人们产生潜在的威胁。

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The firm has already applied the technique to six landfills and plans to add more this year and next.

该公司已将这种技术应用到了6个垃圾场，并计划在今明两年加大推广使用的力度。

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It is emitted by coal mines, landfills , rice paddies and livestock.

甲烷是由煤矿，垃圾填埋场，稻田和牲畜排放的。

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Converting waste into fertiliser saves space in landfills and provides an extra source of revenue.

将垃圾变为肥料不仅不需要占用填埋场地，而且还能够增加财政收入。

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The answer is to privatize and deregulate everything, from trash pickup to landfills .

解决问题的答案就是全盘私有化并解除管制，从垃圾收集到填埋。

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Tapping methane from Brazilian landfills , for instance, or giving Mongolians cooking stoves that burn firewood more efficiently.

例如利用巴西垃圾场的甲烷气体，或者考虑提高蒙古厨灶的柴火热能利用率。

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South Prescott was built on landfills holding the detritus of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

南普雷斯科特市是在垃圾填埋区上建立起来的，填埋区容纳了来自1906年旧金山大地震中的碎石瓦砾。

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The rest - 31 million tonnes - was thrown away into landfills or incinerators, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

其余的（近3100万吨）按照环保局的说法，则被丢弃在垃圾填埋场或是焚烧炉中了。

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But nowadays in urban landfills , the enormous quantities of gas produced make dealing with it beyond the average citizen's reach.

然而现在，城市垃圾填埋场所释放的巨量气体已经超过了一般老百姓的处理能力范围。

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If landfills and incinerators can meet the standards they set, they should be welcomed.

如果垃圾填埋场和焚化炉能符合既定标准，他们应该被接纳。

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LANDFILLS in rich countries have to jump through a lot of hoops to make themselves acceptable these days.

如今富有国家填埋垃圾不得不越过重重阻碍，以使得他们能够被人们接受。

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Latex condoms take years to biodegrade in landfills and polyurethane and polyisoprene condoms may never decompose.

乳胶避孕套在垃圾填埋场需要数年才能生物降解，聚氨酯和聚异戊二烯避孕套可能永远也不会分解。

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Food scraps make up about 19 percent of the waste dumped in landfills , where it ends up rotting and producing methane, a greenhouse gas.

食品残渣占倒在垃圾堆中的废物的百分之十九。它们最终会腐烂，然后产生一种温室气体，甲烷。

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Around 70 per cent of all plastic waste "ends up in landfills and stays there a very long time, " he said.

他说，约70%的塑料垃圾“最终扔到垃圾堆，在那里呆上很长时间。”

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Such organic additions to the landfills , Swire Sita engineers joke, are "bad for stability but good for gas" .

太古升达的工程师们戏称，填埋场增加的这类有机物“不利于稳定，但有利于产生气体。”

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The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that's considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane-producing microbes.

通常认为垃圾填埋场的固体废物是典型的过酸环境，这并不利于产烷生物的生存。

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And landfills have their own environmental hazards.

同垃圾焚烧厂一样，垃圾填埋场也有环境污染。

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Why tax and regulate landfills out of all proportion to the damage they do to the environment?

为什么垃圾填埋的税收和规范和垃圾对环境的损害不相称？

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Because landfills are usually airtight beneath the surface, paper and plastic are equally bad at biodegrading.

因为垃圾填埋场都是密封的，纸袋和塑料袋在分解的时候都是一样糟糕。

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Some landfills have installed systems to capture that methane and make use of it.

有些垃圾填埋场装有设备专门回收利用甲烷。

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The rate at which its landfills are filling up remains a subject of much debate in the territory.

在香港，垃圾填埋场的填充速度仍是一个倍受争议的话题。

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In Arizona, the Bureau of Land Management has begun a program to repurpose landfills and abandoned mines for renewable energy.

在亚利桑那州，土地管理局已经启动一个项目，把垃圾掩埋场和废弃煤矿转用于开发可再生能源。

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In some cases, that means that office printouts and soda cans, once exported, went to landfills .

在一些地方，这就意味着过去可以出口的办公废纸和可乐瓶子，现在就只能是送到垃圾填埋场。

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In Britain landfills are taxed out of all proportion to the damage they do the environment.

在英国，垃圾填埋场被征的税，和他们对环境造成的破坏完全不成比例。

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The company has diverted hundreds of tons of construction waste from landfills by up cycling the materials into habitable buildings.

这家公司将垃圾堆的几百吨的建筑垃圾通过回收升级利用这些垃圾的方式转化成可居住的住宅。

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It is rapidly broken down in landfills leaving space for other types of waste, so that fewer new landfills are needed.

这是迅速细分在堆填区留下的空间，其他类型的废物，使较少的新堆填区的需要。

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