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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CHP, also known as cogeneration, is a specific genre of distributed generation, which is sited at or near the point of consumption.
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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.
While committing itself to the principle of providing accurate information to consumers, the government has warned that there are "real practical difficulties in establishing traceability to identity method of slaughter to the point of consumption".
Unlike traditional "centralized" systems, distributed energy relies on small power-generating technologies like solar panels or ultra-efficient natural-gas turbines built near the point of energy consumption to supplement or displace grid-distributed electricity.
After that, my fellow Forbes contributor Jerry Bowyer makes the point that a consumption tax would penalize those who spent their lives paying income taxes and delaying consumption, only to enter their golden consumption years giving the federal government a big cut.
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To realize objectives 3. and 4, a five percentage point increase in the consumption tax is appropriate.
This would produce savings of about JPY 5.5 trillion, equivalent to a 2.5 percentage point increase in the consumption tax.
So the Unger Report releases its eight-point plan for cutting back on oil consumption this summer.
At some point, considering raising more revenue via consumption taxes might bolster productivity.
Those who criticize the tablet as being nothing more than an overgrown iPod, mainly used for media consumption, are missing the point that with the tools available from sources like iTunes, Google Play or Window Store, you can do a lot of great and useful stuff!
Regardless, my point is that the only justification for extra consumption, however you might measure it, is to encourage people to do their jobs.
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Given the increasing average age of populations in the developed world, healthcare innovation and spreading prosperity, signs point to continued exponential growth of global healthcare consumption.
Thus unilateral free trade is indeed what we want simply because that is what best expands consumption opportunities: which is the point of the whole game in the first place.
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We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.
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The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.
Industry officials are eager to point out that small cuts in the fuel consumption and emissions of millions of cars add up and have a greater impact overall than what might still be a relatively weak take-up of electric cars.
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
The tablet is mostly for content consumption, but can be used as a control point, too.
Why should this consensus point of view get any air time, blog space and newsprint consumption?
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It is really only in the past 50 years that plastic has become integral to our everyday lives, another point that makes me realize that we can vastly cut back our consumption of plastic if consumers weren't so lazy, and designer thought "smarter" early on in the manufacturing process.
Every three years we look ahead 30 years and we look at the total need or consumption of energy in the world as we see it at that point.
Over and above this we get to the second point which is that on pure efficiency grounds we would rather tax property and consumption, possibly even incomes, rather than capital returns.
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Although demand-side figures (measuring consumption) show flat spending, supply-side statistics (measuring production) point to healthy growth.
Assuming extra investment increases output by progressively smaller amounts as the capital stock expands, then at some point extra investment will reduce, not increase, the long-run sustainable level of consumption.
The PC acts as a larger, more readable screen for content consumption, a more convenient means to create content, and, yes, also a control point.
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