Read more about our ongoing initiatives to achieve better results here and our broader work to cut waste and make government work better for the American people here.
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"The key is a comprehensive program that draws in not just bottles and cans but milk jugs and newspapers and magazines and detergent bottles and all the things that make up the waste in our communities, " Neely says.
Ticket start-up, ScoreBig, is out to slash the waste of unsold seats and make a tidy profit in the process.
Mr. MICK JAGGER (The Rolling Stones): (Singing) Women think I'm tasty, but they're always tryin' to waste me and make me burn the candle right down.
And reforms to target waste, inefficiency, and price-gouging by the insurance industry will help make this the largest deficit reduction plan in over a decade.
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As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
Sadly, 99 percent of bills never make it that far and waste away for years in the "hopper, " without seeing the light of day.
However, Mersey Waste wants planing permission to modify the site and make it smaller, claiming it would take the site further away from houses.
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Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper is thrown away every year in the U.S. Small choices add up, so keep paper trash in a separate waste can and make sure it finds its way to the recycling bin.
Waste and lower growth because of poor tax policy will only make the fiscal hole harder to fill.
How hard can it be to make good advertising, optimize promotional spending to drive traffic and cut all of the waste?
Industry heavyweights like Cosan (CZZ) are also researching ways to make fuel ethanol friendly for jet fuel, and turn sugarcane bagasse, the leafy waste of the cane stalks after they are crushed into sugar molasses, into second generation ethanol, as well.
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The landfill tax is designed to encourage councils to recycle more waste and make less use of landfill.
We will root out -- we will root out the waste and fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier.
The WLGA said it was now "economically and environmentally essential" that the public make use of recycling services available to them, so less waste is sent to landfill.
We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
Starbucks, too, is trying to make its labor scheduling more efficient, and run its stores in ways that waste less of the product.
"We made clear in our waste review that we want to make it easy for individuals and organisations to do the right thing, because a great many of them want to do just that, " he said.
It's a way to potentially cut the waste out of our health system, and also reminds doctors of a promise they make to each and every patient: a promise to do no harm.
Low cost improvements can include replacing incandescent lights with CFL or LED alternatives, master switches to make it easier to switch off appliances at night, energy monitoring to make it easier to identify waste, draft proofing, and using plants or shade-cloth to keep the summer sun off your home.
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We can marvel at the mythical bison-like Bonacon, for example, spreading his acidic bodily waste over Turkey, and the Sciapod, a people whose enormously swollen feet were said to make fine sun-shields.
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First, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to make termination of the second engine a test case of whether Congress is committed to eliminating waste, and has won White House backing for a veto of the defense spending measure if the extra engine is funded.
Bill Gates has the right idea: Give away money while you are still alive and make sure that it does not go to waste.
We divert that much of our waste stream to recycling and actually make money on it instead of paying tipping fees to dump trash in the ground.
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It means "don't waste, " and it's the concept behind the country's push not only to make Japan green, but also to sell the technology it's developed around the world.
At the cathode, the protons and the electrons react with oxygen from the air to make water which, to the joy of environmentalists, is the only waste product of such a cell.
And so they are going to be integral in helping me to root out waste in government, make our agencies more efficient, and generate more ideas so that we can put the American people back to work.
For even as we rein in waste and ask that Congress account for every dollar it spends, this alone will not make up for the years in which those in Washington refused to make hard choices and live within their means.
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