Sentence examples for the total waste from inspiring English sources

The remainder — roughly 1.1 million tons, or 30percentt of the total waste stream — is hauled off Long Island to out-of-state landfills and waste facilities.

The total waste along the food value chain (this is how they talk, OK?) is 32%; 16% is wasted in "agriculture and supply"; 16% by the consumer.

According to Defra, in 2008-9 totalotal waste collected from the UK's 25m households dropped slightly to 24.3m tonnes, or 473kg per person.

According to the institute's most recent data, the total waste generated on Long Island increased from 2.85 million tons in 2001 to 3.7 million tons in 2006.

A more recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Americans generate roughly 30 million tons of food waste each year, which is about 12percentt of the total waste stream.

The retail sector takes some of the blame, as about 37% of the total waste sent to landfill by food retailers is attributed directly to food waste and approximately 25% by large supermarkets, although many are making efforts to reduce this.

About 95% of the total wastes are sent to the landfill for disposal (Fauziah and Agamuthu2009).

Concrete waste constitutes the major proportion of construction waste which counts on about 50% of the total wastes generated.

We show that the total wasted effort is at most the maximum effort which implies that crowdsourcing contests are a 2-approximation to an idealized model of conventional procurement.

Municipal solid food waste accounts for ∼30% of the total wasted food energy assuming that solid food from the US diet has an energy density of 1.9 kcal/g [12].

The sectors with the largest total waste multipliers were again predominantly construction (service) sectors followed by other Service sectors.