Sentences with phrase «in producing less waste»

Additionally, the company is steadfast in producing less waste material through an expert manufacturing process.

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Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

In partnership with Culinary Nutritionist Stefanie Sacks, Figueiredo is petitioning Whole Foods and Walmart to stop massive food waste by agreeing to sell cosmetically «less than perfect» produce.

I opt for Imperfect Produce's organic box each week in the hopes that I am contributing less to the use of chemicals and pesticides in agricultural use, and getting the rescued vegetables box each week makes me optimistic that I am helping to alleviate food waste in the United States.

The company started in 2015 with the goal of reducing food waste by encouraging consumers to buy the less - than - perfect produce that would typically be discarded.

But in practice, the staff saw that salad bar prep took less time than individually packaging produce into 1/2 cup portions, and that kids wasted less fruits and vegetables when they were able to take the portions they wanted — actually eating what they took.

In fact, by packing eco-friendly lunches, you are more likely to save money, your children are more likely to eat healthier foods, and you are taking care of the earth by producing less waste.

In turn, fewer resources are needed to make those costumes, less packaging is required, fewer costumes need to be transported from other countries or to your local store, and less waste will be produced since many consumers trash their Halloween costumes once the fun is over.

But in practice, the staff saw that salad bar prep took less time than individually packaging produce into 1/2 cup portions, and that kids wasted less fruits and vegetables when they were able to take the portions they wanted — actually eating what they took.

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.

In addition, last fall, Syngenta put forward a more global strategy called The Good Growth Plan which makes six commitments to improve resource use efficiency, including finding ways to produce more food with less waste, degradation, and poverty.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

Due to the home - cooking customs of the non-westernized world, their customers buy a lot more fresh produce so stores waste less of it and can buy in bulk.

«The CGC initiative mandated that manufacturers produce safer, more environmentally - responsible products and less waste and effectively forced the best minds in the business to go back to the drawing board and reinvent a better (and safer) way for how we handle stain and odor removal.»

Because the ingredients are more easily digested and utilized by the cat's body, canned foods produce less solid waste in the litterbox.

This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.

Considering that less than 33 percent of the waste produced in the U.S. is recycled, with an even lower percentage for plastic products — about 14 percent — this is a big step forward.

In other, less windy regions lacking kinetic energy, there is still in the air, abundant CAPE (residual solar), existing either naturally (day, evening, summer), or through augmentation by transfer to air from waste heat sources, to produce a virtually inexhaustible supply of electrical energIn other, less windy regions lacking kinetic energy, there is still in the air, abundant CAPE (residual solar), existing either naturally (day, evening, summer), or through augmentation by transfer to air from waste heat sources, to produce a virtually inexhaustible supply of electrical energin the air, abundant CAPE (residual solar), existing either naturally (day, evening, summer), or through augmentation by transfer to air from waste heat sources, to produce a virtually inexhaustible supply of electrical energy.

So imagine my surprise when I found Milk in a plastic bag in Sainsbury's... Dairy Crestthe suppliers say that a 2 pint milk bag produces 75 % less packaging waste and landfill mass than a standard 2 pint plastic milk bottle.

The Energy Plan 1.0 outlines actions that will change city - wide systems so our city wastes less energy and produces fewer emissions - and creates jobs in the process.

Even though global energy demand is the same in either case, effectively we will need to produce less energy because less is wasted through inefficient fossil fuel burning.

While it's a good thing to lobby companies to use less packaging and to choose items with less packaging, change will take time in that direction and in the meanwhile, families will continue to produce plastic waste that needs bagging.

«This represents a 58 per cent increase in the amount of clean electricity that Ontario wasted in 2015 — 4.8 TWh — all while the province continues to export more than 2 million homes - worth of electricity to neighbouring jurisdictions for a price less than what it cost to produce,» said Paul Acchione, P.Eng., energy expert and former President and Chair of OSPE.

That is still a viable option, in fact more so today, because new systems, such as the pebble bed reactors produce considerably less waste.

I blog about my experiences in trying to produce less waste in everyday life.