Sentences with phrase «vast amounts of waste»

We estimate that by cutting vast amounts of waste, GDS will effect a 1 percent to 3 percent savings in supply chain costs.

Fuel for School began as a partnership between the Real Junk Food Project and Richmond Hill Primary School in Hunslet with the aim of removing hunger as a barrier to learning, highlighting the importance of nutrition and wellbeing in learning, and raising awareness of the vast amounts of wasted (yet perfectly edible) food in our communities.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

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It's sensible — everyone knows that a vast amount of hospital time and money is wasted treating people who are not an emergency.

Some opponents have argued access to the 1 1/2 - mile - wide river, with its potential to dilute vast amounts of pollution, would let Georgia - Pacific increase production and create more waste without running afoul of environmental laws.»

He at least got the man that Bush couldn't get but yet Bush takes credit for wasting vast amounts of money on a war that should not have gone on as long as it did.

Sustainable Solutions for Wine Waste Ways to recycle the vast amount of plant waste produced by the wine industry are under investigation by chemistry and biotechnology researchers at Swinburne...

party wasted vast amounts of money, and for what?

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, just 5 percent of food losses are at the consumption stage, but vast amounts of food are wasted during production and processing.

Environmentalists inside and outside China warn that the rapidly expanding dam lake is already causing destructive soil erosion and has polluted the river with vast amounts of trapped sewage, agricultural chemicals, and hazardous industrial wastes.

One can have the leanest and healthiest body, but are purchasing large quantities of pre-packaged meals, drinking out of water bottles daily, wasting food, not recycling, and wasting vast amounts of electrical energy.

The head teacher has also started a Fuel for Schools programme after seeing vast amounts of entirely edible waste food that are created each day, and also understanding that many poorer pupils depended on their school canteen for healthy cooked food.

Yup, you read that correctly, after taxpayers were forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing the Common Core and the Common Core Tests and students and teachers wasted unfathomable amounts of time prepping and taking the tests that were designed to label the vast majority of students as failures, the «lead» state behind the SBAC testing scheme simply threw out results.

With kidney failure a vast amount of urine is being produced by the body in order to rid wastes that have build up in the blood.

The process, and the impediments to its wider adoption, are described in detail in «Cutting waste in gas drilling — Pioneering propane technology used to free natural gas from rocks, avoiding the pollution of vast amounts of water.»

Of course a vast amount of trust in both science in general and government authority was wasted (a good thing reallyOf course a vast amount of trust in both science in general and government authority was wasted (a good thing reallyof trust in both science in general and government authority was wasted (a good thing really).

So far, science does support that the vast amount of money wasted on man's attempt to control nature has shown no impact, positive or otherwise, on other than local environs.

And I hardly need mention the vast amounts of completely uncontrolled waste emitted by burning fossil fuels.

Greener plastics that breakdown in the environment have been marketed as a sustainable alternative that could reduce the vast amount of plastic waste that ends up in the sea after being dumped.

John has written before about how manure lagoons may become a liability in a warming climate, but even now the practice of storing vast amounts of animal waste in anaerobic lagoons is causing major environmental concerns.