Sentences with phrase «in government waste»

David Leighton and John Stevenson: We must challenge Labour's spurious narrative that public spending cuts always lead to worse public services - because that has been central to the rise in government waste

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Surely cuts in government waste must go to substantially reducing public borrowing.

Savings in government waste and inefficiency can only go so far.

Not exact matches

The state government will focus on improving waste recovery rates from the construction, demolition and industrial sectors to achieve «ambitious» targets in its new waste strategy, but has no plans to

The state government is examining whether waste - to - energy facilities will adversely affect people's health and recycling habits before evaluating proposals for facilities in Perth and the Pilbara.

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

They're proposing to get rid of Waste Diversion Ontario — which was created in legislation by the previous Tory government — as well as controversial eco fees on hazardous waste and electronics that are passed on to consumers.

Since 2012, however, the bank's destiny has been uncertain as some conservative lawmakers have sought to make it an example of government waste and cronyism, in their own words.

LONDON (Reuters)- Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $ 50 million (# 38.2 million) in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain - wasting disease.

You would think that someone, somewhere in Washington, would get to writing legislation to prevent this kind of government waste.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the regioIn more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the regioin the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the regioin roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

Meanwhile, in 2004 the Guardian (U.K.) reported on government figures suggesting that exports to China of waste paper collected in Britain «are running at... 500,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard a year.»

If governments provide subsidies to these companies, they will often end up paying money to a number of companies that would have come (or stayed) in the city anyway, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Read More Canada's Waste to Energy PR Success In the face of significant skepticism to secure government approval for new facilities, the Canadian waste to energy industry has doubled in size in just five yearIn the face of significant skepticism to secure government approval for new facilities, the Canadian waste to energy industry has doubled in size in just five yearin size in just five yearin just five years.

Haste makes waste Bitcoin investors in the US worried about government regulation need not start sweating, yet.

Industry experts shared their thoughts on key emerging opportunities for cleantech entrepreneurs, investors and government in waste management.

I have worked for some of the biggest and best known companies in the world and the level of waste and incompetence is really not that different than government especially in countries like ours where the public services are pretty good.

Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.

Contrary to claims by the Harper government, savings extracted from federal departments and agencies are not obtained by «eliminating waste» in «internal operations».

It's Harper's first visit to Israel since winning power in 2006, though he wasted little time in shifting his government's Middle East policy towards the Jewish state.

anyone who goes to a chitz h0le muzzy country and then gets arrested for pushing the christian myth is a lunatic, The US government is not in the business is wasting money and lives for 1d10ts.

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.

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

This process is full of waste, fraud, and abuse, and the wealthy feel like the government is stealing from them, and the poor are not helped in the long term, but only become ever more dependent upon the government.

Unless you know someone in the country who is able to get delivery of the stuff your contributions are either wasted or goes to high government people who don't need it.

I think Ayn formed the wrong conclusion about business and government and hence I don't agree with her premise in Atlas Shrugged, but I still can appreciate what a waste government and group thinkers can be.

HOW do people think the POOR got help BEFORE the government took over the job of redistribution??? NOW we PAY federal workers to redistribute money to the poor with a LOT of wasted dollars in between because of layers and layers of federal mess in between

He was as startled as anybody else at the way the election went, and it looks to him as if we are in for a lot more government spending and waste of the taxpayer's good money.

It is amazing to me that they wasted this much space on some lame religion Down with all religion in government

This approach would cost a lot less than hiring people to find needs for the government to address and will save us from wasting precious common resources in the process.

The balance of nature, Type II, although commonly stated in a metaphor of two terms, obviously involves many terms such as animals, waste, water, oxygen, algae, industries, governments, conservation groups, etc..

There is more waste in most charities than in government.

That target, said former Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead «will put Scotland at the forefront of global action to tackle food waste», but Binns Group Chief Executive Allan MacGregor says that while government direction is good, the amount of food currently being wasted in Scotland is «staggering».

What many people may not know is that one in nine people on earth don't have enough food to lead an active life, or that food loss and waste costs the global economy $ 940 billion each year, an amount close to what the entire UK government will spend in 2016.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

Every government, city and business involved with food must set reduction targets, measure food loss and waste in their borders or supply chains, and act to reduce such waste.

Now, governments in more than 20 countries around the world are taking action to reduce food waste, according to a new report from researchers at the Johns Hopkins... Read more»

A number of state and territory governments have invested in public education campaigns to reduce food waste.

The Australian Government's commitment to halving food waste in Australia by 2030 requires all levels of government, industry and the community to work together to achieve this ambitGovernment's commitment to halving food waste in Australia by 2030 requires all levels of government, industry and the community to work together to achieve this ambitgovernment, industry and the community to work together to achieve this ambitious goal.

Testing shows they break down in as little as five weeks in the large - scale composting operations that many local governments and private waste services offer.

Local governments operate within the legislative framework of states and territories, and organise waste collection for households and businesses in their local area.

Many local governments have identified the significant amount of food in their waste streams and are taking steps to reduce food waste through a range of programs, such as:

State and territory governments are primarily responsible for waste legislation and management in Australia.

The UK government is launching a consultation on a deposit scheme that could see a refundable charge added to the cost of single - use glass, plastic, steel and aluminium bottles and cans in an effort to reduce waste and increase recycling.

Speaking at the event will be the recently - formed Food Waste Reduction Alliance who will emphasise the importance of a collaborative approach to reduce food waste and in particular, how the private sector needs to work with government and NGOs.

State and local governments can play an integral role in this effort by developing and implementing food waste prevention campaigns.

The Australian Government has committed to halving food waste by 2030 (consistent with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals), and the strategy is expected to be released at the national food waste summit being held in Melbourne on 20 November 2017.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.