How to Use metric ton in a Sentence

metric ton

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  • Farmers currently get $15 for each metric ton of carbon with payments phased in over several years.
    — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2021
  • Its website currently lists a price of $15 per metric ton of carbon dioxide removed plus a 15% transaction fee.
    — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • Another 62 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses could be released annually as a result.
    — Yessenia Funes, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • This represents another significant win for the Alpha rocket, which can lift about 1 metric ton to low-Earth orbit.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Last year, around this time, there was a global deficit of 1 million metric tons.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Teck’s open-pit mines produce more than 21 million metric tons of coal a year.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • These fossils lead them to a discovery of a sea-dwelling mammal that would’ve weighed up to 340 metric tons.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The world consumes a huge amount – nearly 2 billion metric tons each year.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • Aluminum forwards on the London Metal Exchange have climbed by a third this year to about $2,650 a metric ton.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Much of it is hidden in what the U.N. estimates is 37 million metric tons of debris.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • According to SpaceX, a single Starship could land at least 100 metric tons of cargo on the moon.
    — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This demonstrator would be a fairly large payload for such a mission, about one-half of a metric ton.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Olive oil is currently more valuable than crude oil (crude oil right now is less than a tenth of the price of olive oil, sitting at about $670 per metric ton).
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The New Horizons mission to Pluto, by comparison, had a mass of half a metric ton.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Over 2 metric tons of materials pass through the center each day.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Ukraine exported about 20 million metric tons a year before the war.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, about 23 million metric tons of coal exports were shipped from the port of Baltimore, about a quarter of all seaborne U.S. coal shipments.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The commodity’s price has come down from its peak of more than $3,700 a metric ton earlier this month, but remains high.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The current global average is $6 per metric ton of CO2.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • About 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean every year, according to the report.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • Last summer, roughly 1.4 million metric tons passed through each day.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • So far the pact has allowed for the export of almost 33 million metric tons of food through Ukrainian ports, according to UN data.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • Scientists estimate the structure is made up of about 5.5 million metric tons of sand.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Because of a lack of supply due to climate change, olive oil now costs a record high of $9,000 per metric ton, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Combined with no new ships joining the effort, that has led to a drop in exports from a high under the deal of 4.2 million metric tons in October to 2 million in June.
    — Courtney Bonnell, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • This year, Cargill is offering farmers $25 per metric ton.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • But there was a large discrepancy between its estimate of 8 million metric tons and the amount of plastic observed in the ocean.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The growers can sell dry Nacional for roughly $7,300 per metric ton—more than twice the global median for cacao.
    — Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The idea is simple: To create a credit representing one metric ton of climate benefit from efforts to keep forests as forests.
    — Bailey Evans, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • That, in turn, means a reduction of 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, Costco claimed.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

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