Manufacturing, logistics, supply chain management, energy management, recycling and waste management all break down into succinct business processes, with human tasks and interventions.

制造、后勤、供应链管理、能源管理、回收和废物管理都可以分解为简洁的业务流程，其中包含人类任务和干预。

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Such a switch would involve more raw materials, more energy for manufacturing processes and transport, and more waste.

这一转变将涉及更多的原材料、用于生产流程和运输的更多能源和更多的废弃物。

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Of course, manufacturing your new toaster is going to require energy and produce waste wherever those products are made.

勿须争辩，制造新的烤面包机必然会消耗生产地的能源，在当地制造废弃物。

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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.

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Nanotech holds the promise of cleaner ecosystems, more efficient energy sources and waste-minimizing manufacturing processes.

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Last year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided that the link between air-borne dioxin (an ingredient in Agent Orange, and also a common air-borne pollutant emitted by waste incineration, some chemical manufacturing processes, cars and trucks, and other industrial sources that burn fuel) and diabetes was so strong, it compensated 270, 000 veterans for diabetes linked to dioxin exposure.

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