Sentences with phrase «amount of waste heading»

Ultimately, through single - stream recycling we see a higher recycling rate, thus reducing the overall amount of waste heading to landfills.

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Because breakfast is not an «offer vs. serve» meal (i.e., students must take all parts of the meal for it to be reimbursable by the federal government), there's a huge amount of waste, and one of the most valuable aspects of Lisa's blog has been her photos of the untouched food routinely discarded by the students from the breakfast — tables full of sealed milk and juice cartons, uneaten whole fruit and unopened packaged foods all headed for the trash (see, e.g., here and here).

I'm still not sure how I'm going to come to terms with the amount of time I've ever wasted chopping up florets of cauliflower, meanwhile I could've just been spicing up and roasting the whole head!

When I make cabbage rolls, I don't use a whole head of cabbage and sometimes the rest goes to waste... if I used Swiss chard, I would only have to buy the amount needed for the recipe.

The head teacher has also started a Fuel for Schools programme after seeing vast amounts of entirely edible waste food that are created each day, and also understanding that many poorer pupils depended on their school canteen for healthy cooked food.

Despite its popularity, despite the billions spent on it, and notwithstanding the decent job it does of targeting services on needy kids, today's Head Start, when viewed through the lens of pre-K education and kindergarten readiness, amounts to a wasted opportunity.

Inside, the E-Hybrid has just the right amount of electro - information; it doesn't club you over the head with pointed suggestions that you are wasting energy, but you can monitor how you are doing.

But when you compare the amount of free solar energy falling on our heads every day against the increasingly scarce oil reserves created hundreds of millions of years ago, the economics become clear: We're letting untapped income go to waste, while we spend money digging up our savings and using it to destroy our home and our future.

The late Bob Carter, former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia, explained, «Climate change is a moral issue, and there is nothing quite so immoral as the sight of well - fed, well - housed Westerners assuaging their consciences by wasting huge amounts of money on futile anti-global warming policies, using money that could instead be spent on improving the living standards in developing countries.»