Sentences with phrase «about increased waste»

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Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

In a world of rising population, increasing cost of food, concerns about inequality and growing food insecurity, food waste is one of the greatest challenges of our time with 30 percent (1.3 billion tons) of food produced being wasted each year.

There have been an increasing number of stories in the media recently about the growing amount of plastic waste and one supermarket in the UK has vowed to ban all of its own - brand plastic by 2023.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

USDA increased the amount of food waste it composts from the USDA headquarters in Washington DC from 2,400 to about 2,650 pounds of food waste per week.

Armed with accurate data about the food waste resulting from overproduction, foodservice organizations can modify their procedures to increase efficiency.

Executive Director Alison Field - Juma states, «OARS looks forward to working with Mass Audubon to educate the public about how to create a more climate - resilient landscape on their own property through better stormwater management, pet waste disposal, and increasing native plantings.

In fact, waste increased by about 35 per cent.

When I started to decrease in supply i increased pumping s and tried supplementing with formula he didn't like formula so we kinda trick him now with a bottle of half formula and half BM and he doesn't know the difference, unless I do more then 50/50 and drinks it all so I don't worry about any waste I just had to figure out about how hungry is and if he is still hungry after a bottle we go with food or cereal until he is full.

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

She argued Syracuse officials are too often concerned about increasing the city's revenue, instead of looking for ways to «re-deploy» revenue or cut back on waste.

The report offers insights about the largest sources of methane waste in order to help policy makers and operators identify the greatest opportunities to reduce pollution, increase efficiency, and return a valuable commodity to the local economy and state taxpayers.

The theme for National Nutrition Month ® this year — Go Further with Food — aims to increase awareness about food waste.

Further guidelines for garden waste and textiles are also not due to be released until this year, however it is envisaged that campaigns will increase awareness about what can and (just as importantly) can't be recycled, while ultimately working to influence changes in behaviour to dramatically improve the UK's rates of recycling.

about It's National School Lunch Week: school leaders say yes to good nutrition, no to increased costs and waste!

, moved to caring about the fate of certain insects and thinking about many things: climate change, poverty, the decline of craftsmanship in the face of mass production, the cost of research, the disposable society and the increasing waste of goods.

Ontario, Canada About Blog CleanRiver is solely focused on and committed to reducing the volume of solid waste that goes into landfills, and increasing the value of recycling practices.

Forester's recent work in photography and sculptural assemblage using found air ducts and experimental body casting speaks to the increasing anxiety about what to do with commercial waste and how something as simple as breathing clean air is fraught with contradictions.

I was reflecting yesterday about the increase in our waste orientation in my recent lifetime.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

We know about adverse health effects, and property devaluation, and wasted subsidies that have increased hydro rates, of excess generation of power that has to «exported» to others (we pay them to take it), of injurious affection and the list goes on.

Think about all the wasted energy fighting the «deniers» when they could have been listening, trying to understand their arguments, and making progress to increase our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change.

Joshua: «And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change...»

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

The objective of this program is to increase awareness about food waste prevention and recovery, as well as to increase the adoption and implementation of food scrap collection programs.

The percentage expressing a great deal of worry about pollution of drinking water, as well as contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, increased by seven percentage points.

An interview with Heather Rogers, the author of a new book about our ever - increasing «waste stream» and the people and corporations that feed it.

Over time, appeal by way of trial de novo gave rise to increasing concern about inefficiency, waste of judicial resources, and potential abuse.

A new generation of lawyers are thinking about how to improve the process of lawyering — to increase quality, reduce waste and to reduce the risk of error.

Once the campaign is running I anticipate that he will have a significant increase in his practice and maybe forget a little bit about the wasted money with Find Law.

Ontario, Canada About Blog CleanRiver is solely focused on and committed to reducing the volume of solid waste that goes into landfills, and increasing the value of recycling practices.

Ontario, Canada About Blog CleanRiver is solely focused on and committed to reducing the volume of solid waste that goes into landfills, and increasing the value of recycling practices.