noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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sewage
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Material suitable for deep sea dumping included sewage sludge , industrial waste, and toxic ashes left after the incineration of garbage.
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Fully-digested sewage sludge is also used, with considerable success.
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So within the supermarkets' own quality assurance schemes, sewage sludge is likely to be ruled out.
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Given the power of the supermarkets, the widespread use of sewage sludge as fertiliser looks unlikely.
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Listeria occurs in large amounts in the sewage sludge which is spread on farmland.
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From 1942 to 1961, two consecutive fields were treated variously with farmyard manure, fertilizers and sewage sludge .
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Over a quarter of Britain's 3.5 million wet tonnes of sewage sludge is dumped at sea.
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The Clivus Multrum had been charged with a mixture of softwood shavings and activated sewage sludge supplied by Southern Water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A considerable amount of sludge comes from lime-soda-softening, the amount increasing with the hardness of the water.
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For instance, he interfered with the hauling of sludge , causing sludge to back up at the plant, they said.
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Fully-digested sewage sludge is also used, with considerable success.
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H., once handed out bricks of dried sludge to City Council members at a budget meeting.
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Incinerating sludge costs £9 a tonne and land disposal £3 a tonne.
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Sewage sludge and industrial waste will still enter the North Sea from Britain until 1998.
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The sludge in the Cuisinart fills the condo with smells I remember from nature trails of my childhood.
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The resultant sludge is washed with twice its weight of water and then filtered.