Gitty Ankers, from Truro, for services to the recycling and waste industry.
Until recently most people in the waste industry had assumed that it was impossible to reduce the amount being produced and were concentrating on putting the stuff to better use.
While acknowledging the growing problem of waste, European industry had lobbied hard against the proposal, particularly its coverage of existing or historical waste, warning that it would represent an enormous financial burden that would ultimately boost prices for consumers.
Between them, industry bellwether Waste Management and Republic Services have about 40% of industry revenues.
At Kalunborg waste heat from industry is used to heat nearby homes.
Mr Huizenga, who has already made two fortunes by shaking up video shops and the waste-management industry, instantly claimed his remarks were taken out of context.
With enhanced visibility of inventory, quality, supply capability and demand fluctuations, we can expect to see reduced inventory, increased capacity utilisation and less waste in entire industry and multi-industry supply chains.
"Paper might be the most consumer sensitive of all because it's used in packaging - and packaging is used for everything, " said Minter, who has just finished writing a book about the globalization of the waste and recycling industry.
It would also help wring out the enormous waste that undermines the industry.
The second least happy workers are those in the administrative and support, and waste management and remediation services industry.
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This will allow industry to solve waste problems through competition and innovation.
The nuclear industry cannot therefore waste time.
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The Beijing city government together with catering associations announced that the restaurant industry should reduce food waste.
Several solar energy experts said they have not calculated the industry's total waste and were surprised at what the records showed.
As well as providing a greener alternative to fossil fuels, biodiesel could also utilize more than 1.3 billion tons of waste produced by the American agricultural industry each year and provide a new source of income for farmers.
Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.
This means processing electronic waste properly is often more a service industry rather than profit-from-product industry.
One of our missions is to reduce our carbon footprint in an industry that produces massive and unnecessary waste.
But what if the industry, instead of continuing to waste all that money in mega-deals and duplicated effort, decided to revamp its intellectual property (IP) structure?
The U.S. solar industry said it is reporting its waste, and sending it to approved storage facilities thus keeping it out of the nation's air and water.
The waste from manufacturing has raised concerns within the industry, which fears that the problem, if left unchecked, could undermine solar's green image at a time when companies are facing stiff competition from each other and from low-cost panel manufacturers from China and elsewhere.
It's what the industry prefers to call 'energy from waste', generating electricity by burning rubbish in enormous incinerators.
"It'll be a bit like Pennsylvania, where a whole industry has grown up to deal with waste-water, " he said.
Heat networks provide economies of scale for existing clean-heat technologies and provide markets for surplus heat from industry, biomass CHP and energy from waste.
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There are more than 80 billion garments produced around the world today, and according to a study by the UK's Cambridge University, the industry is creating 70 million tons of waste water as of 2006 in the UK alone.
These, in conjunction with a booming and innovative recycling industry that helps turn around the discarded waste of Mumbai's 21 million residents, form a productive but often "informal" sector that many fear will be lost when the redevelopment is complete.
My hope, and it is already being validated in the form of suddenly busier casino card rooms, is that the internet ban will spark of second renaissance of live play. 20 years ago when I started playing seriously, few Vegas casinos even had poker rooms, and many were closing, considered a waste of valuable gaming floor real estate in the industry.
But the government says waste from any new power stations would be borne by the industry itself.
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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In the travel industry, some establishments are trying to cut down food waste on their own.
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