Sentences with phrase «of producing less waste»

Some choose cloth wipes for the environmental benefits of producing less waste, while others focus on saving money over time by reusing wipes.

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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.

He created and manages the @UglyFruitAndVeg campaign, using funny images of less than perfect produce to highlight the 20 to 40 percent of all produce that goes to waste just because of grocers» cosmetic standards.

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.

«We decided to purchase a second SurePress because of its expansive label printing capabilities and how it allows us to produce smaller runs with less waste, helping us to decrease production time and reduce costs.»

This comprehensive data collection helps restaurants be more efficient, have less food waste, produce more consistent food, enforce standard operating procedures and simplifying the jobs of management personnel.

Envi's space - saving, easy - stacking blocks are also eco-friendly, made from hardwood sawdust (a natural by - product of milling) that's pressurized into dense bricks that burn hotter and cleaner, and produce less ash waste than logs.

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.

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.

Because he dreaded losing by a handful of votes, Barwell did everything he possibly could to increase his chances: «I'd squeeze an extra event into an already crowded day, produce another leaflet, do six hours» canvassing on Saturday instead of five, waste less time asleep.»

And now Suh has turned his attention to the question of efficiency — producing more goods with less materials and waste — to examine whether it might provide a natural way out of such pollution.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

With a combination of water, plant food and 17,500 LEDs, he harvests as much as 10,000 heads of lettuce a day — 100 times more per square foot than an ordinary farm — using 90 percent less water and producing 80 percent less waste.

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.

All this would be of substantially less concern if New York were like most of the other states that produce some radioactive waste during natural gas drilling.

Europeans produce an average of 25 million tons of plastic waste each year, less than 30 percent of which is recycled.

I'm gonna burn these ketones up because they're just better for my body they re uhh - again, they're cleaner fuel I might need a lot of more and I'm gonna produce a lot less toxic waste as oppose to when I go.

The brand offers a wide range of clothes that all girls want to wear made from recycled fabrics, using resources that produce less pollution and less 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.

A major benefit of toy breeds is that they eat less than larger dogs and, as a result, produce less waste.

Feeding fish smaller amounts of high - quality food means they'll receive optimal nutrition while producing less waste.

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 energy.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

You said that they do nt generate less waste because they use more raw materials and you can recycle 90 % of the waste you produce.

«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.

And the EPA has stated that waste - to - energy plants produce electricity «with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity.»

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»