Sentences with phrase «level waste problem»

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A: I think the most important achievement is helping to create a level of awareness about the problem of food waste in our industry and in the public.

Both the hunger and waste problems could be reduced through food recovery — specifically, food donation at the retail level and the «away from home» consumer level.

Merely securing a high yield of a few select crops does not solve the problem of hunger nor secure livelihoods for smallholders, and leads to high levels of post-harvest spoilage and food waste.

These summits will provide college students with the opportunity to have conversations with FRN National and other students in the region that go beyond a surface - level understanding of the issue and apply their knowledge to local problems around food waste and hunger.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

While President Obama's plan to find alternatives to storing high - level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., is grabbing headlines, another problem has begun threatening license applications for new reactors.

However, high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays.

ASHRAE's president, William Harrison, reminded the group's members that they come across «horrible examples of energy waste» every day, and he feels their trade group is uniquely positioned to fix the problem on a national level.

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

The problem: In my medical education and residency, I was taught that measuring hormone levels is a waste of time and money, because hormone levels vary too much.

The downside is that the process to arrive there can waste a lot of time and energy in reinventing the wheel, when, depending on the problem a school is trying to solve, the level of freedom it has to solve it, and the type of team it deploys to attack it, there is some predictability to the blended - learning model it is likely to adopt.

The problem with the latter method is that the waste contains a high level of disease - causing pathogens that can seep into the rain sewers, therefore entering lakes, rivers and other bodies of water.

Low urine specific gravity (urinalysis too dilute) high levels of metabolic waste in the blood (elevated BUN and Creatinine) and increased body acidity (metabolic acidosis) are also common in Addison's disease; but they also occur in many health problems not related to your pet's adrenal glands.

«I have spent 15 years trying to convince TNR advocates about the problems of TNR, trying to find areas of compromise, trying to lower the level of the angry rhetoric, and have concluded that it has largely been a waste of time.

Despite over 50 - years of development and government support in Canada, nuclear power continues to be plagued by cost overruns, technical problems, accidents and the ongoing problem of how to manage its legacy of high - level nuclear waste.

The U.S., France and the U.K. continue to build nuclear power stations without addressing the problem of existing waste, which is reaching potentially dangerous levels.

The study - Unwrapped: how throwaway plastic is failing to solve Europe's food waste problem (and what we need to do instead)- shows how annual per - capita use of plastic packaging has grown simultaneously with levels of food waste since the 1950s — now at 30 kg and 173 kg respectively.

-- carbon emissions — health problems from the pollution, such as mercury emissions — high level waste which still has no acceptable means of disposal — non-renewable

This also contributes to solve solid waste management problems at the local level.

Segal's aim is to get viewers to see that in order to tackle the enormous waste problem, one has to start at the personal level, where it all begins — even if it means starting small.