Sentence examples for wasteful alternative from inspiring English sources

The pitch for filters is that they're a cheaper and less wasteful alternative to bottled water — but still offer access to the ideal of purity that made bottled water popular in the first place.

No doubt some public spending is wasteful – but the alternative is unthinkable.

With limited resources available to improve living standards, researchers can help to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative alternatives, enabling us to cut wasteful programs and redirect funds to alternatives with proven effectiveness.

Yet the alternative is more wasteful lending and unproductive spending.

One major way to reduce costs involves technologies that offer an alternative to the wasteful process now used to make silicon wafers.

Produced at a wind-powered facility in the United States, it was designed as a responsible alternative to the wasteful and often toxic pens we use almost every day.

It's time not only to stop subsidizing the stuff but to revamp the chaotic, politicized and wasteful system of subsidies for alternative energy.

"If the patent system becomes useless, or people feel the need to find alternatives, that's wasteful to the economy as a whole," Mr. Dudas said.

They called on UC officials to seek alternatives, such as curtailing wasteful spending or trimming executive pay.

In response, the plastics industry argues that the alternatives would be even more wasteful in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

One easy way is vowing to ditch wasteful paper towels in favor of sustainable alternatives like cloth towels and linen napkins.