Englishfor English speakers
gaseous waste English
Synonyms gaseous waste synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as gaseous waste?
gaseous waste English » English
Examples gaseous waste examples
How do I use gaseous waste in a sentence?
News and current affairs
The response - massive spending cuts - ensures that unacceptably high levels of unemployment (a vast waste of resources and an oversupply of suffering) will continue, possibly for years.
The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans' contribution to global warming through greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.
But there are ways to waste less.
This would not cut carbon emissions spectacularly, but nor would it be a spectacular waste of public funds.
Europe cannot afford to waste valuable human capital at a time when China and India are on the rise and its own population is aging.
Sure, we can find more fossil fuels, but at much higher cost and at much greater environmental risk from industrial spills, waste products, leaks, and other damage.
Looking for them is a waste of resources.
Likewise, China's government cannot continue to waste resources on economic-stimulus packages that have led to industrial overcapacity and skyrocketing local-government debt.
Still, it is striking that just as China is rising economically and geopolitically, the US seems to be doing everything possible to waste its own economic, technological, and geopolitical advantages.
And India has become a leader in converting biomass and food waste into energy.
Nuclear energy presents a number of disadvantages, owing to concerns about safety and disposal of radioactive waste.
For example, the six million tons of waste produced annually by Niger could theoretically be used to meet that country's entire energy needs.
And we will waste another decade.
In addition to the shocking waste of lives and money from the Iraq war, America has done the world another great disservice.
Europe is being cautious in the name of avoiding debt and defending the euro, whereas the US has moved on many fronts in order not to waste an ideal opportunity to implement badly needed structural reforms.
Indeed, the opposite is true. Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks: plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.
Other elements of Lee's plan include construction of eco-friendly transportation networks, such as high-speed railways and hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks, and generating energy using waste methane from landfills.
It matters to countries that have decided to phase out nuclear power, because their plants will continue to operate for decades and will need to be decommissioned, with nuclear waste stored safely.
Given that most of these items are not biodegradable, and are not recycled, plastics waste is building up - with serious environmental consequences.
Closed-loop recycling, in which plastics waste is used to make another product, thus carries significant environmental benefits, such as reduced energy and oil consumption.
But the process of separating the petroleum-based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor-intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.
An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.
In the last decade, Japan passed several laws obliging both businesses and individuals to separate plastics waste.
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.