Sentences with phrase «wastes about a pound»

In the U.S., we waste about a pound of food per person per day.

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Americans wasted 130 billion pounds of food last year, about a third of our available food.

Their study found that Americans waste 160 billion pounds of food each year — often because of simple misunderstandings about expiration dates: Many Americans refuse to consume food after the dates on packaging passes, even though in many cases, the dates have nothing to do with food safety.

It's a great bread book, but her method for achieving a starter takes fifteen days and gives highly specific flour and water amounts for feeding the thing, all of which is clearly unnecessarily difficult by about 12 days and pounds of wasted flour.

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).

USDA increased the amount of food waste it composts from the USDA headquarters in Washington DC from 2,400 to about 2,650 pounds of food waste per week.

On just one of the rivers in the study area, which handles 60,000 user days a year, this translates into about 30,000 pounds of human waste that could be left in the canyon.»

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

He figured that the 32,000 people of Menlo Park each threw away about 500 pounds of garden waste each year.

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).

The factory where they were assembled was almost zero waste: «About 45 million pounds of parts, materials and packaging come into the plant every year.

About a third of the waste New Yorkers produce — over 1 million pounds - is organic.

But today, every American generates about 4 1/2 pounds of waste every day, so the question is, what do you do with that?

Now, all peer - reviewed, published economic models demonstrate that such an effort is a colossal waste of money — one of the leading models shows that, for every pound spent, Tickell's solution would do about 13p - worth of good.

For example, in 2009 we reduced our plastic bag waste globally by about 66.5 million pounds, which is the equivalent of approximately 4.8 billion shopping bags.