Sentence examples for proportion of waste from inspiring English sources

In the past five years the landfill tax has halved the proportion of waste collected by local authorities and buried in the ground to 15.7percentnt.

Over the last 30 years the average grade of ore bodies has significantly decreased while the proportion of waste removal has in many cases more than doubled.

Recent developments in national recycling and re-use programmes for municipal waste have led to segregation of an increasing proportion of waste to enhance material recovery.

The utilization of waste plastic in manufactory of another materiel is a partial solution environmental that will reduce the proportion of waste plastic incineration or landfill.

A significant proportion of waste generated by the dairy industry is in the form of whey, which creates a lot of environmental concerns especially in developing countries.

For example there is a small startup company in Scotland, MacRebur, developing ways to reduce the amount of toxic bitumen in asphalt by substituting a proportion of waste plastic into the mix.

However, the proportion of wasted children rose from 1.9percentt in 1988 to 4.1percentt in 2000.

Sudan has the highest regional proportion of wasted children (16 per cent) and only 1 per cent of households consume iodized salt.

By contrast, the proportion of wasting children was higher in spring and autumn (14.3%) and lower in summer (9.3%).

49 It is unclear what proportion of wasting in HIV patients could be attributed to TB or other opportunistic infections, but it is likely that TB is playing an important role as described in an autopsy study in South Africa where TB was identified as the most common cause of death in patients on ART.

Use broad, deep shelves (including built-in) and drawers, and wall and ceiling mounted items, to minimize the proportion of wasted space above, below, and around the edges of items (due to packing geometry or falling-off-the-edge risk).