Sentences with phrase «high environmental impact»

If you assume that a bag is meant to last for a couple years at least, be reused and be durable, then the initially higher environmental impact of the cloth bag wins out over disposable with ease.
As consumers become aware of the high environmental impact of meat & seafood products, these products are expected to gain currency.
With plastic packaging coming under fire for its high environmental impact, alternative solutions will be explored.
Production in heated greenhouses has high environmental impacts and therefore seasonal products are generally environmentally preferable, unless they come from areas with water scarcity (Stoessel et al. 2012) or the greenhouse is heated with clean renewable energy.
Cloth diapers with the highest environmental impact have an overlap with disposables with the lowest possible impact.
Depending on the category in which the product falls, there can be a high environmental impact during the manufacturing stage or use stage of a product's life cycle.
For an innovative product like fashion apparel, there exists a higher environmental impact during the use stage.
Consumer food waste carries the highest environmental impact compared to losses earlier in the food chain, and it is no longer a problem concentrated only in higher income countries.
But be aware that, just because a product is organic doesn't mean it's necessarily environmentally friendly — some organic pesticides have a higher environmental impact than conventional ones.
But I agree the big acceleration in gdp came with farming, and it did lead to social classes and inequality and higher production of waste and higher environmental impacts.
Though biomass energy schemes are hardly anything new, (see these «power to the people» projects in California, China, India and Uganda) it's a matter of scale and the plant's dual objective to provide an alternative source of energy, while tackling a serious problem: namely, the high environmental impact of an excess stream of chicken droppings.
A recent MIT life cycle battery analysis of household batteries demonstrates that recycling (rather than disposal) yields a higher environmental impact.
Considering their lack of commitment to renewable energy, and their overtly vested financial interest in unconventional oil sources, I find any statements from Shell on the matter of the high environmental impact of oil sands to be inherently suspect.
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