Tonnes in a sentence

For instance, whereas a family car weights a couple of tonnes maximum, and a truck, at least on Estonia's roads, anything from a few tonnes to around 20 or so, a Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank weighs around 65 tonnes.

This natural carbon sink is estimated to remove 3.5 million tonnes from the ocean each year. 3.5 million tonnes of carbon taken from the ocean and atmosphere is equivalent to 12.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

At present, the country has around 1-1.5 lakh tonnes of SMP and around 75,000 tonnes of white butter.

In Madhya Pradesh, the procurement rose sharply to 34.50 lakh tonnes so far this marketing year from 22.42 lakh tonnes in the year-ago period, the ministry data showed.

Miners on the list include Rio Tinto, with 7.4 million tonnes of Scope One emissions, the 11 highest, and another 7.8 million tonnes of Scope Two.

The Bio CNG plant in Chetpet is processing 100 tonnes of biodegradable waste every day and bio CNG plant in Madhavaram is processing 100 tonnes.

This includes a mixture of 2,000 tonnes of rock-filled bags and 2,400 tonnes of rock boulders.

Well, that the USA emitted ~510 billion tonnes of CO2, while at the same time China emitted ~290 tonnes of CO2.

While the Covid-19 pandemic was bad enough, a darker side to it was the tonnes of PPE (personal protective equipment) generated — almost 56,000 tonnes in one year, as per data by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

And while the country emitted 2.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2022, by the end of September last year Malta had already emitted more than 1.8 million tonnes, leaving it on track to exceed the total from the year before.

At the time of writing, Cascadia had six tonnes of rope on board, four tonnes of garbage and an estimated 12,000 plastic bottles.

Away from its symbolic significance, it is said to have the capacity to produce around 7 million tonnes of fuels and 1.4 million tonnes of petrochemicals every year.

India produces approximately 19-20 million tonnes of millets annually, yet only about 2 million tonnes are processed on an industrial scale.

Its per capita emission of 6.9 tonnes is more than double of the country’s average of 2.8 tonnes.

The surveillance frigate Le Germinal seized over 6 tonnes of cocaine, while La Combatante seized over 2 tonnes.

AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine is expected to ramp-up its mining rate from 2,000 tonnes per day to 4,000 tonnes per day in the first quarter of next year.

At a separate news conference, the agriculture ministry spokesman said Saudi Arabia would start importing at least 1.2 million tonnes more wheat next month, adding to strategic reserves of over 1 million tonnes.

But US LNG took centre stage, with 35.6m tonnes produced, up by almost 15m tonnes year-on-year.

Europe’s biofuel production capacity is expected to grow to around 8 million tonnes per year from the current 3 million tonnes per annum, according to Barclays analyst Joshua Stone.

For example, “Rani” fish catch has come down from the normal about six to seven tonnes a day to about two to three tonnes.