It's not just tens of thousands of tons, but millions of tons.

Figure 2. Total Global Emissions (Gigatons)

As Chile's methyl bromide baseline is 212.51 ODP tonnes, the above phase out schedule would ensure the Party returned to compliance with the Protocol's methyl bromide control measures in 2005.

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Table 4. Finished steel consumption by major region (Mt.)

World production of crude steel 1997 2004, million metric tons

Table 5. International trade in finished steel products by major regions (Mt.)

The private waste management company ITC receives thousands of tons of solid municipal waste each day.

Thousands of tons of cereals had been distributed free to the most affected areas, and other measures had been taken to assist vulnerable groups.

The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.

Comstock was proud of the fact that he was personally responsible for thousands of arrests and the destruction of hundreds of tons of books and pamphlets.

High level collusion enables thousands of tons of chemical precursors, needed to produce heroin, to be trucked into the country.

The parameters in this formula are averages expressed in thousands of tonnes, any fraction of 1,000 tonnes above a whole number being disregarded.

In the first year, Germany received hundreds of thousands of tons of cereals, oil, and other vital raw materials, transported through Soviet and occupied Polish territories.

The middle line is millions of tons of plastic debris accumulating in our ocean, and the third line is radioactive material leaking from Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Pacific Ocean.

Right now, rich countries are changing the world s climate by emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year from the use of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Ghost fishing, through lost or discarded nets and lost underwater traps, kills thousands of tonnes of fish that might otherwise have found their way to the market.

At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.

In dozens of countries, tens of thousands of tons of highly radioactive material has been kept in buildings that provide little of the usually rigorous protection surrounding radioactive material in reactors cores.

Other statistics or estimates on quantities are hard to find, but it is assumed that hundreds of thousands of tonnes (or even more) of undegradable fishing nets are abandoned or lost in the world's oceans every year.

Ships laden with tens of thousands of tons of maize, sorghum, split peas, and cooking oil from the United Nations World Food Program and other international aid organizations must navigate these dangerous waters.

Starting from one atom, the number of fissions can theoretically double a hundred times in a microsecond, which could consume all uranium or plutonium up to hundreds of tons by the hundredth link in the chain.

It pours out millions of gallons every hour, and supplies drinking water to at least 300 million people, and washes many, many babies, and of course feeds many, many animals, both domestic and wild, produces thousands of tons of rice.

That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.