It still USES resources to recycle something, and still creates waste - just not as much of it.

尽管回收利用这些东西所耗资源并不像制造新的那么多，但总还是有的。

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It's not just the time wasted but also that the person has to regain focus after the meeting, which creates waste from task-switching, too.

这不但会浪费时间，当人们参加会议之后重新转移注意力，也会产生来自任务切换的时间消耗。

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A zero-waste life is a lifestyle that hardly creates any rubbish.

零废物生活是一种几乎不产生垃圾的生活方式。

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The crop waste creates mulch.

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The open-ended, blank-check nature of the Medicare subsidy threatens the solvency of this critical program and creates inexcusable levels of waste.

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The company also claims the sticks don't need as much packaging as standard laser print cartridges and so the product creates 90% less waste.

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