Those recycling centers are storing heaps of waste in warehouses while waiting out the market.

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Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.

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Think of it: 85 percent of your computing cycles go to waste because the servers are waiting for something to do.

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So if the internal fan seems annoyingly loud, or you run into other problems that a quick tech-support call can't resolve, don't waste lots of time on the phone getting fixes particularly if they involve waiting for parts.

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And he quoted a letter from a consultant at Guy's Hospital in London who said setting waiting list targets was contrary to the practice of clinical need and condemned it as a waste of tax-payers' money.

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