Sentences with phrase «total amount of waste»

Zero waste is a philosophy of waste management that aims to reduce total amount of waste to zero by redesigning resource - use systems.

Rethinking Waste is a ten - year plan focused on significantly increasing the amount of material recycled in Dutchess County in order to decrease the total amount of waste.

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The total amount is surely much more; at least 43 of those reports listed either an «unknown» or «ongoing» amount of waste released, and new reports continue to roll in — sometimes as many as a dozen per hour.

Research by Wansink and Kim19 showed that people consume more food when they are given larger portions and greater variety, so it is likely that consumption of nutrient - dense foods increased along with the increase in the amounts of foods served.20 Recent studies assessing the effect of the new school meal regulations on consumption and food waste have shown increases in fruit, entrée, and vegetable consumption10, 11; increases in consumption of fiber and reduction in nutrients of concern12; and no increase in total food waste.10, 11

The total amount of money that would be wasted for the launch of the restoration of the nursing trainee allowance can pay a number of the students.

It's an incredible amount of wasted potential and just goes to show why I now consider new revenue stream growth for Nintendo to be of the utmost importance in the short term in order to both grow total revenues and act as failsafe revenue stream in case NX fails.

The first two levels of the game put wildly different demands on your system; time spent optimising the experience via careful settings management in one area of one stage can amount to a total waste of time when you discover that GPU load can increase enormously just around the corner, or moving from one level to the next.

One reason for the waste is simply that in prospering countries, as food costs have become an ever smaller proportion of total household budgets, the amount of discarded food has ballooned, according to a recent article by Andrew Martin.

Over an 8 - week period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week and are in turn ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most on a per capita basis, as well as which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste and which schools generate the least amount of combined trash and recycling.

By reusing waste heat, the total amount of produced electricity would be sufficient to cover all auxiliary consumption, resulting in substantial savings.

Following a detailed analysis of year - end data issued by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) is reporting that in 2016, the province wasted a total of 7.6 terawatt - hours (TWh) of clean electricity — an amount equal to powering more than 760,000 homes for one year, or a value in excess of $ 1 billion.

Adult diapers, or incontinence pads as they are otherwise known, amounted to less than one percent of total landfill waste just two decades ago.

So my question is, is this total amount of «waste» heat negligible compared with the total solar radiation received by the earth, or is this large enough to play a role in influencing the climate and thus has to be included in the models?

Here's the problem, that amount of revenue would far outstrip any ongoing improvements and since the associations and boards are all not - for - profit organizations, it would be a total waste of profits.