Wastage
in example sentence
Businesses and households alike should monitor where and how they waste food and take corrective steps, because prevention of
wastage
is even more important than recycling or composting.
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We need to look where across the supply chain these losses and
wastage
occurs.
Three-quarters of the potential pickup in productivity could come from “catch-up” improvements, with countries taking steps – modernizing their retail sectors, consolidating automobile production into a smaller number of larger factories, improving health-care efficiency, and reducing food-processing
wastage
– that have already proven effective elsewhere.
This does not capture the full picture: for example, meat accounts for about 4% of food
wastage
but 20% of the costs, while 70% of fruit and vegetable output is wasted, accounting for 40% of the total cost.
One way to achieve this is to price water more appropriately, which would create an incentive to prevent
wastage
and conserve supplies.
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