This frequently results in over-testing and/or over-design of the packaging to meet a specification and correspondingly leads to wasteful packaging and product waste, which represent $15bn per year in the USA and €3bn per year in the EU.
"From now on, presidents will be able to say no to wasteful spending," he intoned, as though waste were henceforth inconceivable; actually, his vetoes will save a paltry $120m a year in a budget of $1.7 trillion.
This process has then led to wasteful, even self-parodic expenditures and policy overreactions".
"The key is to link it to wasteful Washington spending," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster.
These programs are politically popular, even though experts say they contribute to wasteful energy use.
Huge amounts of space are devoted to wasteful, industrialized farming, because we've lost a sense of rural identity.
The capital is trying to put a stop to wasteful water use by raising charges and investing more in recycling.
Not only was he financing a semi-socialist handout to wasteful financiers, the bill was also stuffed with earmarks.
Its aversion to wasteful spending is still exceeded by its addiction to control, however inefficiently administered from Whitehall.
But Mr. Gates and other officials have said that the cost of finishing the second engine could amount to wasteful duplication.
Also, that Jeff Sachs, whose analysis and motives become increasingly mysterious, thinks that I don't pay enough attention to wasteful government spending.
