Sentences with phrase «total waste per»

* At a $ 400B in annual revenue and 10B tons of total waste per year, the average cost of waste cleanup is around $ 40 / ton of waste — incidentally the same figure as the social cost of carbon dioxide as estimated by the US Federal Government (Social Cost of Carbon = $ 40 / ton CO2 in 2015 at average (3 %) discount rate).

A: We are committing to a 15 percent reduction in total waste per ton of food produced by 2020, with a 2015 baseline.

Not exact matches

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.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

In 2013, industry produced a total of about 128 pounds of total refined sugars per person, though because of waste and spoilage the average American actually consumed only about 76 pounds of all refined sugars (about 1.5 pounds per week).

After a four - year experiment with two comparable 533 - tonne samples of municipal waste, the leachate from the wet cell contained dissolved organic particles from food, leaves and garden debris totalling 2700 milligrams per litre.

In 2013, industry produced a total of about 128 pounds of total refined sugars per person, though because of waste and spoilage the average American actually consumed only about 76 pounds of all refined sugars (about 1.5 pounds per week).

Sometimes a $ 30 pair of Forever 21 jeans that you'll only war once is a total waste of money, but a $ 250 pair of jeans that you'll wear at least twice per week — well, that comes out to be less than $ 4.

Given the tremendous economic contribution by upwards of one million illegal Burmese migrants to the Thai economy — which was reported in 2007 to total roughly US $ 53 million (3) per year — forcing refugees into dependence is a waste of human productivity not to mention a denigration of human rights and social well being for the population.

Each refill pack of biobased poop bags contains 8 rolls of dog waste bags, with 15 bags per roll for a total of 120 poop bags per box.

LAN Airlines reported a reduction in fuel consumption of 3.42 per cent year on year, while TAM Airlines recycled a total of 31.4 per cent of its waste in 2013.

Per this same study, the top sources by total volume of plastic waste flowing into the ocean are located primarily in Southeast Asia, led by China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.

As Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg announced during the plant's opening last week, the plant will convert one third of the country's total 1.2 million tons of poultry waste produced per year, or 440,000 tons.

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.

It was created by design studio Lukatarina to help raise awareness about plastic - bag waste in Slovenia, which Artnak said totals about 130 to 150 bags per person annually.

«All told, time wasted in document creation and management activities cost firms an estimated $ 9,071 per lawyer each year, or a 9.8 % loss in the firm's total productivity.

According to CSIR studies, 13 million people go hungry every day, 20 % of households are food insecure, South Africans throw away almost 10 million tonnes of food per year (more than the UK), 30 % of all agricultural production ends up as waste to landfill, and the total cost of food waste is estimated at R61.5 billion per year.