Or is our faith locked up in the plastic promises of material consumption and digital gadgetry?

还是我们的信仰被锁入了物质消费和电子机械的塑料承诺中？

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Good material management helps lowering down of material consumption so as to improve enterprise productivity and market competition.

因此，探索当前矿山企业的物资管理对降低物资消耗，提高企业的生产率和市场竞争力有着显而易见的作用。

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Asia may instead need to carve out a vastly different vision of prosperity that does not rely on ever-increasing levels of material consumption.

反而，亚洲可能需要自行摸索开拓，创建出一个不依赖于物质消费不断增长的繁荣观。

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By leveraging Newport Media's advanced OFDM baseband and RF CMOS technology, the NMC1000 offers levels of performance, power consumption, and external bill of material (BOM) typically associated with the world's leading connectivity solutions providers.

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Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.

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Reverse logistics means controlling the flow of material, inventory and finished goods from point of consumption to point of origin, for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal.

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