Sentences with phrase «on waste prevention»

2 cg is an environmental consulting firm with a strong focus on waste prevention and waste diversion.

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Food waste prevention may be in its early stages, but it's catching on fast.

Focusing on food waste prevention also allowed the store to reduce the number of dumpsters the store sent to the landfill weekly from six to one, which reduces our waste disposal costs.

The National Food Waste Summit brought together those with an interest in reducing food waste across the food supply and consumption chain, with the aim of stimulating ideas on how we can rethink food waste prevention, or use wasted food for other purposes.

The conclusions from this research provide valuable insights on how to help ignite and guide the development of food waste prevention and sustainability strategies across the food supply chain.

FAO collaborates with the public sector, the private sector and civil society to develop and implement food loss and waste prevention and reduction solutions through: i) Advocacy and awareness raising; ii) Collaboration and coordination of world - wide initiatives on food loss and waste reduction; iii) Research to evidence for policy, strategy, legislation and standards development; iv) Support to investment programmes and projects.

This work provides guidance to governments, local authorities, businesses and others on designing effective food waste prevention programmes.

The fight against persistent underweight, stunting and wasting among children in developing countries is based on appropriate maternal, infant and young child feeding practices including micro-nutrient deficiencies prevention and control.

Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition & Malnutrition The fight against persistent underweight, stunting and wasting among children in developing countries is based on appropriate maternal, infant and young child feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention and control.

Among its 14 recommendations, the panel suggests specific changes to a host of laws now on the books, including state legislation governing wetlands protections, hazardous waste handling and shoreline erosion prevention.

Heading directly to the huge convention center here that this week was hosting the first - ever HIV R4P conference, a gathering of researchers and activists working on all HIV prevention efforts, Motsoaledi wasted no time in making connections.

[37] Detractors [38] like to focus on authors» suggestion that «all these efforts without an effective education of people to control the reproduction of house cats (as a prevention for abandonment) are a waste of money, time and energy.»

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.

KR: The two areas I'm most focused on are food waste prevention and plant - forward diets, which are recognized as two of the most impactful things we can do to reverse climate change.

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

Mannie went on to define an Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) solution as «a comprehensive waste prevention, recycling, composting, and disposal programme.