Sentence examples for world waste from inspiring English sources

When consumers in the developed world waste nearly as much food as sub-Saharan Africa produces, few could disagree.

Around the world, waste and spent fuel are stored on an interim basis in pools of water or in casks, many near ground level.

After all the skipped practices and insurrections, he does not want to see Iverson, one of the most talented players in the world, waste his gift.

In the Greek myth, when the flower maiden Persephone is raped to the underworld, the corn goddess Demeter lays the world waste, abdicating her function as guarantor of harvest and civilisation.

If in the poorer parts of the world waste is to a large degree a problem of insufficient packaging before it reaches the consumer, in the affluent regions over-consumption is the greatest driver of environmental damage.

In Haughton's world, waste is the enemy, so ingredients are divvied up between the operations: what might be superfluous for one part finds a use in the other; something left over from one service can be used by another part of the operation at the next.

The world wastes more than $750 billion worth of food every year — 1.6 billion tons of food left in farm fields, sent to landfills, or otherwise scattered across the countryside, plus another seven million tons of fishery discards at sea.

The recent spate of reports started in 2011, when a report (pdf) from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated that the world wastes 1.3bn tonnes of food, equivalent to one third of agricultural outputs intended for human consumption.

The world wastes an astonishing amount of food.

She calls the people dancing to the song in clubs around the world "wasted zombies".

"The United States and the Western World wasted a golden opportunity to win the hearts of the Syrians," he continued.