Sentences with phrase «advocating for waste»

We do this by advocating for waste reduction, and designing the highest quality, longest lasting reusable bags.

Not exact matches

Heitkamp has generally advocated for working with the president and his administration when possible and, in a meeting last spring, called the anti-Trump «Resistance» movement «a waste of my time.»

While the Wired contributing editor advocates for an out - and - out end to physical money, he talks with advocates on both sides of the ledger: those who see the waste, inefficiency and malfeasance of our cash - based economy; and those who think a turn away from the almighty dollar is unwise, unpatriotic or even ungodly.

The FWRA advocates for policies that support the development of the food waste recycling and donation infrastructure across the nation.

Drawing from the latest food waste policy research, we've developed a comprehensive tool that will help businesses and policy makers understand current policies, explore best practices and advocate for better food waste policies at all levels of government.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

Speaker Engagements and Advocacy Today, she continues to advocate for targets, measurement and action to reduce food loss and waste.

Sunny Verghese is co founder and group CEO of commodity trader Olam International Ltd, a member of the Champions 12.3 campaign group advocating for the reduction of food loss and waste.

Advocating for more innovation, greater investment, better information, and increased capacity to reduce food loss and waste.

Developing Food Recovery Best Practices for States and Cities As FLPC has become a leader in the laws and policies surrounding food waste, it has received multiple requests from state - level advocates working to reform their laws to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste.

So go out and have fun, armed with cloth, be an advocate, and use your extra cash for some real treats instead of wasting money on disposables.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

The acronym stands for «Parents Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food,» and the site is designed «to provide a roadmap for parents and others wanting to get started making changes in their own communities, as well as steering them away from common myths and misunderstandings that can waste their time and energy.»

Lippman's panel and advocates for inmates and their families want to close Rikers because the 1930s - era complex is decrepit and dangerous to inmates and guards alike; buses must transport inmates to courts across the city, wasting time and fuel; and visitors must take long journeys to see loved ones.

As such, instead of just pointing the finger at Albany for the costs that are out of local control, Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs we can control — those associated with the waste, fraud and abuse that invariably exists within Medicaid.

«We'll have a solid - waste plan,» said McDonald, an advocate for the homeless who founded The Doe Fund.

As such, instead of just pointing the finger at Albany for costs that are out of local control, Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs we can control — those associated with the waste, fraud, and abuse that invariably exist within Medicaid.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs associated with Medicaid that are within our control — rooting out provider - level waste, fraud and abuse — and the creation of the Office of the Erie County Medicaid Inspector General is the culmination of years of work dating back to his days as Erie County Comptroller.

I plan on continuing my fight to reform our IDA system so that the IDAs can no longer waste our tax dollars, and I will advocate for policies that strengthen middle - class families in New York.

Rather than start remediation now, Colgan said, «It really becomes a situation of waiting until the ice sheet has melted down to almost expose the wastes that anyone should advocate for site remediation.»

And Paul Robinson continued, and expanded on, his work in the Russian Far East (page 4), which resembles how we assist New Mexico communities to advocate for cleaning up wastes from abandoned mines.

'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

While this may seem like a tall ask, advocating for a more responsible waste disposal system doesn't have to be difficult.

The World Health Organization has advocated for strict control over industrial and waste management processes to reduce dioxin formation.

The report from the Center for Popular Democracy, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and Public Advocates estimated the state would lose $ 100 million this year from fraud, waste and mismanagement at charter schools and called for...

«There's no time to waste, we must advocate to make sure critical investments are in place so we may fully equip our current bilingual teachers to serve California students now, and develop the infrastructure to build the pipeline that meets the growing demand of families for bilingual education,» said Dr. Magaly Lavadenz, President of Californians Together.

Industrial waste is regularly dumped into the river in Mumbai, whose waters have long been deemed unfit for human consumption, but the latest surge in blue dog sightings has prompted animal advocates to urge the government to take action against companies.

And I agree with Overandout, that for almost 40 years there have been plenty of us advocating gradual, sensible change away from overconsumption, waste, pollution and reliance on carbon combustion.

by Deborah McNamara on October 27, 2015 0 EcoChallenge 2015 how to advocate for action how to cut carbon how to divert food waste how to eat more sustainably

So rather than abusing me personally for advocating this principle — that personal abuse being a sad waste of energy and time — perhaps more folks (including Anthony Watts) ought to reflect upon the principle «Be First with the Truth» itself, and then contribute responsible comments upon the broad span of duties that this principle devolves upon America's citizens (both science - minded and skeptic - minded).

Several components that BALLE identifies as the building blocks of a Local Living economy — sustainable agriculture, green building, renewable energy, zero - waste manufacturing — are the same practices that environmentalists have long advocated for.

So those advocating we waste money on carbon tax and ETS, renewable energy, and world government initiatives like Agenda 21, should stop advocating for those high costs, economy damaging, wasteful policies and start advising people they got it wrong.

As I mentioned, zero waste and minimalism both advocate for a conscious reduction in the things we consume.

And while the book doesn't advocate for zero waste in explicit terms, the link is clear:

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«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

As I've mentioned many times, if you truly believe the world is headed towards food shortages, you need to be advocating for efforts which will reduce the percentage that is lost to spoilage and waste.

In R (on the application of Hide and others) v Staffordshire County Council [2007] EWHC 2441 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 402 (Oct) the solicitor advocate in jeopardy might have been unreasonable and negligent in the conduct of litigation but the evidence was that an order for wasted costs would carry a significant risk of causing her to become bankrupt.

One might think that the major drawback is that the new prosecutor advocates the evisceration of a constitutional right for the benefit of the taxpayers, not to mention those criminal defense lawyers who really hate wasting all that time picking a jury before their clients get convicted.

This advocate will also become the new hire's «go to,» so they do not waste time guessing the unofficial points of contact for different needs within the company or tap on multiple shoulders asking around for help.

Canada About Blog Zero Waste Canada is a non-profit that advocates for a zero waste future.

The Insider Blog is an independent advocate for industry - wide change that uncovers waste and addresses best practices, trending topics and need - to - know information for chief financial officers, risk managers and benefits managers who need to improve the bottom line.