Sentence examples for economically wasteful from inspiring English sources

But all this paper is environmentally and economically wasteful.

It called for a rehabilitation revolution and measures to cut down the economically wasteful and immoral reoffending rates.

For children growing up in poor neighborhoods where parents lack the resources to send them to private schools, the consequences can be dire, not to mention economically wasteful.

Much of it sits idle except for a few hot days each year, an approach that is economically wasteful and environmentally irresponsible.

To create an economic climate in which whole chunks of our regional identities are simply dumped into a skip marked "austerity" is both morally and economically wasteful.

No country has bigger potential to displace oil with gas than Saudi Arabia, which burns about 0.8 million barrels per day of crude oil and petroleum products in its electricity sector, an environmentally harmful and economically wasteful practice that has persisted for decades.

He said greater defence cooperation would also make sense economically by reducing wasteful duplication of effort by member states, and called for a defence fund by the end of the year for common research projects.

It occurred to me very early on in that venture that reusing material was so much more environmentally and economically efficient than the wasteful linear economic model.

Cash is less wasteful and economically distorting than food or fuel subsidies (though school lunches can boost enrolment and cut micronutrient deficiencies).

A better argument can be made, I think, that, by battling the restrictive and wasteful work rules that were strangling London newspapers, Murdoch economically liberated the newspapers, saving many more jobs.

It makes little sense to build economically, environmentally and politically costly new energy systems — nuclear or otherwise — to supply wasteful pumps and motors, leaky homes, incandescent light bulbs and inefficient automobiles, when the services those things provide can be met with far less energy than we spend to meet them today.