Sentence examples for reducing the tonnage from inspiring English sources

Considerations of every kind pointed to the inconvenience of acquiring such a vessel and to the revision of the contract in the sense of reducing the tonnage.

Donating surplus goods is intrinsically attractive to hospitals — and it reduces the tonnage they must send to landfills.

The Washington Naval Treaty, signed in February 1922, greatly reduced the tonnage allowed for capital ships in the signatory nations.

By reducing the total permitted tonnage of gas each year, overall pollution levels can be reduced in the most economically efficient manner.Taiyuan will not be the first Chinese city to experiment with sulphur-dioxide trading.

Analysts said the Chinese offer might take some of the pressure off the United States, which is offering to reduce the total tonnage of its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17percentt below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83percentt by 2050.

So Harding reached the first international arms control agreement, the Washington Naval Treaty, which reduced the naval tonnage of the world's largest naval powers.

China gradually reduced its annual tonnage of export quotas from 2006 to 2009, then cut the tonnage of allowed exports by more than half in the second half of 2010.

Additionally, total GHG emissions of distribution may be reduced by raising the tonnage limit, thereby triggering direct shipments between the manufacturer's facilities and the retailer locations, or by raising the tonnage limit, which triggers direct shipments in the logistics service provider network.

This suggests that policy makers should focus on different material types depending on how they want to maximise their impact (e.g. reducing Scotland tonnage material consumption versus reducing Scotland's global environmental impact).

They could help us reduce the amount of food we put on our plates, which would lower the tonnage of otherwise good food discarded every day.

The council hopes it will help reduce its landfill tonnage by 1,300 tonnes a year to meet Welsh government targets.