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In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]
[1] [2] He spent ten years improving the design and went into business selling the appliance. His company was called the In-Sink-Erator Manufacturing Company. [ 3 ] The name is a play on the word " incinerator " and refers to the fact that the mouth of the disposal unit is located "in" the " sink ".
The entrance to a sett. A sett or set is a badger's den. It usually consists of a network of tunnels and numerous entrances. The largest setts are spacious enough to accommodate 15 or more animals with up to 300 metres (1,000 ft) of tunnels and as many as 40 openings.
Meles is a genus of badgers containing four living species known as Eurasian badgers, the Japanese badger (Meles anakuma), Asian badger (Meles leucurus), Caucasian badger (Meles canescens) and European badger (Meles meles). [2] [3] In an older categorization, they were seen as a single species with three subspecies (Meles meles anakuma, Meles ...
The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia. It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List , as it has a wide range and a large, stable population size which is thought to be increasing in some regions.
The Bristol Badger was designed to meet a British need for a two-seat fighter-reconnaissance aeroplane at the end of the First World War. Three Badgers were delivered to the Air Board to develop air-cooled radial engines, particularly that which became the Bristol Jupiter ; two other Badgers were also built.
Badger Creek State Recreation Area is a state recreation area in Madison County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Van Meter.The park covers over 700 acres (280 ha) of land and includes the 276-acre (112 ha) Badger Creek Lake.
The Tupolev Tu-16 (USAF/DOD reporting name Type 39; [2] NATO reporting name: Badger) [3] is a twin-engined jet strategic heavy bomber used by the Soviet Union. It has been flown for almost 70 years. It has been flown for almost 70 years.