That's the sound of the average UK home wasting £37 a year on standby, causing unnecessary carbon emissions into the bargain.
Good reordering would radically reduce the inexplicable cost of university degrees; make most courses two intensive years somewhere close to home, wasting no more on hotel costs for two-bedroom students.
Insisting he had no regrets about the climb, he said: "It's a heck of a lot better than having them sitting at home wasting their minds on Minecraft or TV or something like that, and if they can learn this lesson of courage while they're young, then I've done an excellent job as father".
If Vahe Termirzayan didn't have a place to swim each summer, the 11-year-old figures he would be stuck inside his home, wasting time on his computer.
Britain's housing stock is some of the most inefficient in the developed world with £1 in every £4 spent on heating our homes wasted because of poor insulation.
Joanna Yarrow is Founder of beyond green HOME'S EFFICIENCY: The Energy Saving Trust estimates the average UK home wastes over £350 on energy each year.
Marvin Ogunjimi put the Belgians ahead after only four minutes but Burak Yilmaz tapped home to equalise and the home side wasted a golden opportinity to take the points when Axel Witsel missed a late penalty.
The organisation has launched a line of potato beer and published a cookbook, Instock Cooking, to help people at home waste less.
By the end of the trial an average emissions reduction of 20% was reported using a pre- and post-trial carbon calculator incorporating the energy used at home, waste, spending on products and services, beef consumption, and transport.
However, current waste management policies that promote practices such composting of home wastes and exporting of poultry manure and biosolids to semiarid rangeland do little to enhance overall P cycling because the P is not returned to the farms producing feed and food for the peri-urban region.
