Sentence examples for wasteful attitudes from inspiring English sources
5. Harness the power of marketing to promote sustainable consumption: levy a small surcharge on advertising (as the Advertising Standards Authority already does) to create a public education fund to help shift wasteful attitudes, with exemptions for commercial advertising that meets green marketing guidelines.
Encouraged by City's wasteful attitude to possession, the red shirts of the home team were counterattacking with speed and guile, providing support and options and occasionally even outnumbering their opponents.
A wasteful attitude to energy use, business fears of extra costs and the eternal tension between federal and provincial governments all stand in his way.It doesn't help that global warming sounds like good news in a country of interminable winters.
To the Editor: Re "You Can Disinfect a Kitchen Sponge by Microwaving It" (Really?, March 27): Your article was a real eye-opener, but the suggestion that we simply throw smelly sponges away is another instance of our all-too-wasteful attitude toward consumer goods.
If one compares the attitude of our country today toward two wasteful and unnecessary wars to its attitude toward the Vietnam War, the difference is that today there is no draft.
The crisis stems from our absurd attitude that maintaining a wasteful, inefficient, unsustainable and, yes, immoral lifestyle is good for us, something to which we are entitled.
It seems all too obvious to me, the patient, that this attitude is both dangerous and wasteful.
He added that supplying extra water rather than introducing water meters in every home to change attitudes to water consumption would "feed a wasteful habit".
"Our society is wasteful".
