And we will also create an independent commission of doctors and medical experts charged with identifying more waste in the years ahead.
Sadly, 99 percent of bills never make it that far and waste away for years in the "hopper, " without seeing the light of day.
But I think we're going to see a sea change in the whole waste management scene in the UK within the next few years, and I think we'll be up there amongst the best of them in Europe, indeed we have to be.
Now, we have made great strides over the last two years in using technology and getting rid of waste.
Four years holed up in an ivory tower could be a waste of your time and your money.
Why waste years when you can do something in months?
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The Canadian city of Toronto, which has shipped much of its muck to Michigan in recent years, began sending all its solid waste there on January 1st after its own landfill had, well, filled up.
In recent years officials have repeatedly called on manufacturers to use less elaborate packaging in order to cut down on waste and make mooncakes more affordable.
The massive global problem of food waste has received more attention in recent years, and the figures are staggering.
The authority had not hidden the fact that for five years there would be large increases in council tax while new waste management facilities were built.
"Or if we move in the next few years we don't want to waste money putting money into this place, " he said.
The chief hang-up is political: the need to scrap a federal mandate that nuclear waste stowed anywhere must be retrievable for 100 years in case anything goes awry.
This particular waste, discharges of which have risen in recent years, worries the Irish and Danish governments, which detect it washing up on their beaches.
The maximum penalty for illegal waste export is an unlimited fine or up to two years in prison.
This is a developing predicament: In both China and India, for example, solid-waste generation is expected to double in the next 20 years.
Over the years Simmons has accumulated assets engaged in businesses ranging from titanium dioxide pigment production to waste management to precision ball bearings manufacturing.
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In recent years, problems have fouled acquaculture's reputation: pollution from waste runoff, high disease and parasite rates due to a high density of fish and the uptake of industrial chemicals harmful to humans have combined to make fish less healthy to eat.
Polls show a modest rise in public support for nuclear power in recent years, but there is still anxious uncertainty over where to bury the waste.
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Many councils have moved away from weekly collections in recent years, arguing that alternate weekly collections for household-and-food waste and recyclable items are more efficient and popular with residents.
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In biology every solid clue emerges after a dozen red herrings that can waste years of effort.
Last month the Department of Energy launched a 35-year search for a new permanent waste depository, with interim depositories to open in as little as eight years.
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In 2004 it was identified as a site suitable for strategic waste treatment and, five years later, was bought by the council following an independent report on potential sites.
And after years of untreated waste from Russia's cities and heavy industries, scientists say that the Baltic is in danger of becoming a dead sea.
The consequences can be grotesque: in the city of Dzerzhinsk, in Russia, decades of slapdash handling of chemical waste has reduced male life expectancy to just 42 years.
Given the volatility of the stock market in the past two years, market picking a list of stocks to hold for the entire year is a waste of time as very few stocks stay in sustained up trends for an entire year.
After 20 years of war laid waste to much of the place's infrastructure, it was the private sector that stepped in.
Critics called him a fanatic, but those who worked with him - as I did during eight years in the Reagan State Department -- knew he was a savvy judge of political opportunity who did not like to waste ammunition.
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