Sentences with phrase «amounts of waste from»

Developing countries take large amounts of waste from Western nations and break them down or dispose of them, often with little regard for safety or pollution.

What about the amount of waste from the patients themselves?

China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N. - backed alliance said on Sunday.

You never take into account the amount of waste from cooked foods.

The amount of waste from the entire construction process could fit in a wastebasket.

That's the case with Lunchables, whose handy - dandy lunch - to - go design earned it special recognition from the Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN) for contributing a ridiculous amount of waste from packaging to the garbage stream.

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There's also a cautionary tale in the form of Munchery, a California startup that, like Maple, also runs the «full stack,» but has reportedly suffered from food waste and other issues despite raising more than three times the amount in Maple's coffers.

Funded with a $ 1.6 million grant from Google, the online program enables smaller amounts of food to be rescued that might otherwise go to waste.

A Christian conservation charity has called for action from individuals and government after new figures revealed the amount of waste we're sending to landfill or incineration has doubled in the last three years.

- The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn't work.

One of the chief reasons conscientious consumers have balked at the online services is the amount of packaging and environmental waste that is involved in getting the meal kit from farm to plate.

Feeling guilty that they were about to go to waste, I roasted and pureed one and a half of them (and stupidly deleted the pictures before, uh, downloading them from the camera), before deciding it was an absolutely excessive amount of work and entirely not worth it.

Serving individual portions from a large pan can result in irregularly sized portions and unacceptable amounts of waste.

While many food companies focus on improving sustainability purely from the perspective of the amount of packaging and the materials used, ConAgra Foods understands that the biggest threat to sustainability in the United States actually comes from wasted food, Tavill says.

The environmental repercussions of using the K - Cups are enormous because of the amount of plastic waste coming from coffee pods.

When food and associated inedible parts at food banks or charities are removed from the food supply chain (i.e., not ultimately consumed by people), these entities should use the FLW Standard to account and record the amount of food loss and waste.

Section 6.7 and Section 8.3 of the FLW Standard provides guidance on excluding the weight of packaging from the amount of lost and wasted food.

«Before food even reaches a consumer, we focus on reducing the amount of food waste being generated during the production processes, through standard operating activities at every stage from planning to post analysis,» says Kathleen Cacciola, Senior Director for Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.

There's a huge amount of food wastage in the supply chain, from farm to fork, as they say with 88 million tonnes of food waste produced in the EU every year.

The amount of food waste and food losses that result from our food systems are alarming, but as the 2016 Crawford Fund Annual Conference «Waste not, want not: the circular economy to food security» showed, there is much that can be done to reduce this food waste, to prevent these food losses, and to eliminate hunger.

«These changes are part of an overall commitment from the company to reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste produced,» said Wetherspoon chief executive John Hutson.

That's a dramatic improvement, but there still remains room for growth, so FMI remain firmly committed to our Alliance's goals to divert food waste from landfills by 1) Reducing the amount of food waste generated, 2) Repurposing through increased donations, and 3) Recycling food waste that can't be avoided.

Opponents say the industry is pushing a product that makes huge profits from a precious natural resource, has no dietary benefit compared with tap water and produces large amounts of waste.

Supermarkets are responsible for a large amount of the UK's food waste, but announcements from Tesco and the East of England Co-op have charities hopeful.

Hormel Foods offers a variety of products to help consumers with portion control, while simultaneously minimizing the amount of food waste from leftover food.

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.

With bag - in - box packaging, Beso Del Sol's sustainable container also eliminates a large amount of restaurant waste, to the tune of thousands of glass wine bottles no longer being dumped by delivering a delicious, ready - to - drink sangria right from the start.

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.

Apart from dilly dallying and wasting time, he also looses deals for small amounts and buys a lot of crap players as well, Park, Chamakh, Kallstrom, Squid, Silvestre, are just a few examples.

Because after six years of patience from Arsene Wenger and a not insignificant amount of time spent on the treatment table, the best thing he arguably ever did for the club was leave for what now looks a ridiculous waste of # 35million for Liverpool.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school... [Continue reading]

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).

The best part about these cloth diapers is that are meant to support babies from 8 lbs all the way up to 35 lbs which is not only sure to safe you a great deal of money, but will reduce the amount of waste on the environment as well.

Rather, the decision to re-examine milk offerings stemmed from concern that the district is throwing out an obscene amount of food — 600 tons of organic waste each day, according to a 2015 district study.

amandamay said: «All of you flushing poop down the toilet from each baby diaper are wasting huge amounts of water (Average U.S. toilets use 2 - 3 gallons of water each flush).»

Because of this, you are absolved from the need to waste unnecessary amount of time.

Made from wood pulp fluff sourced from family - owned, sustainably managed forests and with significantly less material than traditional plastic diapers, 365 Everyday Value ™ Baby Diapers are responsibly produced and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in our landfills.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

-LSB-...] food waste may only increase when, starting next year, schools will also have to increase the amount of fruit served at breakfast from 1/2 to one full -LSB-...]

McDonough Hardwoods, LLC, will utilize state - of - the - art technology to extract the maximum amount of high quality hard wood lumber from each log, which will not only enhance the profitability of the business, but also reduce the overall amount of waste material generated through its operations.

A new report from a New York - based environmental group attempts to put a number on the amount of waste generated by hydraulic fracturing across the country.

The UK is under pressure from the EU to reduce the amount of household waste or face substantial fines.

A huge amount of time, energy, money and commitment has been wasted because of a lack of a clear plan from the outset.

Under EU targets, the UK must reduce the amount of waste it sends to landfills to 6.3 million tonnes by 2020, down from 18.1 million tonnes in 2003 - 04.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

Relatively small amount of waste comes from the patient himself or herself.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

The annual waste output from a fast reactor with the same electrical capacity, in contrast, is a little more than a single ton of fission products, plus trace amounts of transuranics.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.