Sentences with phrase «of economic waste»

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On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, van Houten won the Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership for his pursuit of a circular economy — development without waste.

Amid economic turmoil, growing consciousness about environmental waste and widening acceptance of «takeout culture,» authorities in France are now trying to combat long - held stereotypes surrounding doggie bags.

«Given this great turning point, the conclusion is simple: there is not a moment to waste in accelerating the economic transformation of France and the transformation of the euro zone.»

Food waste ReFED offers an economic analysis of food waste solutions on its website, calculating that implementing solutions across the food supply chain could represent nearly $ 2 billion in potential business profits.

Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development.

At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.

Trucks stimulate economic activity in every sector of the American economy — including health care, fuel and transportation, waste removal, retail, food and agriculture, manufacturing, banking and finance, and many others.

Companies with solid balance sheets, that have better credit ratings and less debt - to - equity than peers, can weather economic downturns, make opportunistic acquisitions, waste less of their profit on debt interest, and easily absorb unexpected problems and keep moving forward.

We're going to let you in on a little secret: Investors focused on economic growth are wasting their time... If anything, the evidence suggests a negative correlation between equity returns and GDP growth... It may be that the best prices can be had in times of low economic growth, whereas we tend to overpay in a growing economy.

On the issue of space, even given the threat of initial Soviet successes, Fey condemned American exploration as a «fantastic waste» of economic resources (May 24, 1961).

Wasting one's time with this much religious nonsense would go a long way to explaining why most predominantly fundamentalist Muslim countries can't make an economic success without sitting on top of an oil field.

It is economic because it is waste on a colossal scale.Often up to 50 percent of budgets are absorbed by coping with poverty.

In health education the injurious medical consequences of smoking should be made explicit, and the various problems of personal hygiene, fire safety, economic waste, and advertising deception connected with tobacco use should be discussed.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Of course, it's an issue seen around the world, and I thought this table puts the high environmental and economic costs of food waste into perspectivOf course, it's an issue seen around the world, and I thought this table puts the high environmental and economic costs of food waste into perspectivof food waste into perspective.

In May 2015 under the Turkey Presidency, the G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to prevent and reduce FLW.

According to IBM, blockchain is suitable for addressing challenges such as cross-contamination, the spread of food - borne illness, unnecessary waste and the economic impact of recalls.

According to US Department of Agriculture (USDA), between 30 % and 40 % of food goes waste, costing the country $ 220bn in economic losses.

It also encompasses social, economic and ecological considerations, such as infrastructure, storage, waste reduction and improving and preserving water quality — all of which are critical to achieving global food security.

The social, environmental and economic benefits of preventing and reducing food waste must be shared through education and outreach initiatives.

Should the economic ownership of the waste belong only to the government?

Food waste has come under high scrutiny in recent years due to the negative environmental and economic impacts; but could a key solution lie in the overturning our negative perceptions of the frozen food?

Other speakers emphasised: the impact of cheaper and more accessible digital technology on identifying as well as solving problems (Mr Salesh Kumar and Dr Washington Otieno); the importance of realising the nutritional and economic value of food as well as accounting for the environmental impacts of food production (Dr Karen Brooks); and the opportunities for novel products from so - called waste, such as phosphorus recycling (Dr Dana Cordell); Novaq (Dr Cedric Simon); and anaerobic digestion (Dr Bernadette McCabe).

Most people inherently understand that wasting food is bad and should be avoided, but the majority of these people do not know the extent of the issue nor are they aware of its economic or environmental costs.

Everyone recognises food waste is wrong but the economic implications of a couple of percentage points will ultimately drive manufacturers to adopt Food Manufacturing 4.0 best practices.

A global exporter of processed potato products, Remo - Frit, has demonstrated the environmental and economic benefits of converting waste products into green energy, transforming a potential problem into a sustainable solution offering greater profitability.

The announcemen took place during the World Economic Forum meeting alongside the launch of The Rockefeller Foundation's new YieldWise initiative, a seven - year, $ 130 million commitment to halving food loss and waste globally.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

The G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to reduce FLW.

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Promote the reduction of food loss and waste through policies, guidance and other tools that will strengthen communities and reduce the associated environmental, social, and economic impacts.

«The socio - economic and environmental objectives are to set up a stakeholder knowledge platform by implementing an extensive process of knowledge exchange in the whole agricultural waste production and consumption cycle,» said Gontard.

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a coalition of leaders — Champions 12.3 — launched a new effort to inspire ambition and mobilize action to reduce food loss and waste globally.

Governments, companies, research institutions, and international agencies should refine methods for quantifying the economic, environmental, and social benefits of food loss and waste reduction.

Over 120 billion pounds of food goes to waste in the US each year, having significant environmental, social and economic repercussions.

Today's announcement takes place during the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, alongside the launch of The Rockefeller Foundation's new YieldWise initiative, a seven - year, $ 130 million commitment to halving food loss and waste globally.

«This is not only an urgent mission given the high economic, social, and environmental cost of waste, but it also resonates with Sodexo's mission to improve quality of life in every community we serve.»

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND (January 21, 2016)-- At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a coalition of 30 leaders — Champions 12.3 — launched a new effort to inspire ambition and mobilize action to reduce food loss and waste globally.

[7], [11], [12], [13] Furthermore, restricting the availability of chocolate milk may lead to adverse economic impacts such as increased milk waste and decreased lunch sales.

It appeared that there was something to be done, that the economy was not moving according to natural laws, that economic crises could be attenuated and the waste of resources and the suffering alleviated if the state pursued anticyclical policies of demand management.

«After three wasted and damaging years of flatlining, this economic growth is both welcome and long overdue,» Balls said.

The Legislature's few agreed - upon revisions to the governor's original appropriations language were minor and have not reduced the potential for waste and political wheeling - dealing in the name of «economic development.»

To fight corruption successfully without looking at the economic wellbeing of the people is a gross waste of time.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lauded the program as a departure from the secretive «pork barrel» spending of the past — «It's a waste of money, we did it for a lot of years, it failed,» he told Politico New York in February — the program has come scrutiny by lawmakers and fiscal watchdog groups as at best, overly optimistic and at worst, lacking oversight and tainted by scandals that have marred other economic initiatives, including the Buffalo Billion.

During the election campaign we found ourselves more angry than ever about Labour's record of waste and economic failure.