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Alternatively, because most farmers markets have proximity and production requirements, farmers travel less than 50 miles to offer you local produce with minimal packaging waste.
That's inefficient, a waste of time, perhaps, but it's robust.
Well, if we are, it's an awful waste of space.
Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.
A teacher told me how to express the under-five-percent of plastics recovered in our waste stream.
And when the tides of waste matter come in it sounds as if a whole storm is approaching you.
In summary, if you look at it, in year one the people can sell their land to get income, but they get jobs back in the construction and the reforestation, the working with the orangutans, and they can use the waste wood to make handicraft.
But I would suggest that innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
CA: And so we see waste everywhere.
AF: She, Chris, is a ragpicker, and there were 15, 20 million ragpickers like her, until China stopped taking everyone's waste.
CA: And there are many adults as well, literally millions around the world, and in some industries, they actually account for the fact that, for example, we don't see a lot of metal waste in the world.
It's actually an article of value, not of waste.
Where you have the waste worst, say Southeast Asia, India, that's where the wealth is most.
What I love about this most, Chris, is that, you know, we waste into the environment 300, 350 million tons of plastic.
Because the technology is low-capital cost, you can put it in at rubbish dumps, at the bottom of big hotels, garbage depots, everywhere, turn that waste into resin.
This will be the internet of plastic waste.
It can be wasteful to try to avoid all waste.
And at the same time to scrap inefficient old planes, so that if they were otherwise to come back in the air, they would waste more oil, and block the uptake of efficient, new planes.
And much of this work is done in Manila, where the analog toxic waste from the Western world was transported for years by container ships, now the digital waste is dumped there via fiber-optic cable.
Then out of nowhere, my boss comes to me and says, "Hey, we want you to save this clamshell for the company and lead the effort to reduce waste within McDonald's."
We did it, it reduced waste by three million pounds a year.
So, we had a six-month partnership that ended up producing a 42-point waste reduction action plan.
We measured it during the decade of the '90s, and over 10 years we reduced 300 million pounds of waste.
And there's losing variables that are just not that practical, and this matters because in a world of limited resources, you don't want to waste it on people that actually have the same needs.
It has used it as a sewer, as a drain, as a place for throwing their waste."
A common way to do this is to take a 3-D mold, fill it with a waste crop like corn stalks or hemp, add water, wait a few days for the mycelium to grow throughout, remove the mold, and you're left with a grown 3-D form.
Living organisms are transforming waste into cost-competitive, performance-matching materials that can start to replace plastics and other CO2-emitting materials.
Eight million tons of plastic waste enter our oceans every year, destroying ecosystems.
The choice to segregate and recycle household waste is ours.
Down south in Mysore, public-private partnerships and citizen-led eco clubs are coming together to reduce, segregate and recycle waste in a manner that landfills can be eliminated altogether.
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