And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?
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For Interface, the EPD process has encouraged it to reduce energy and material consumption (particularly oil), waste generation and emissions.
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If economics supposed, at one extreme, that people seek only to maximise their material consumption, then it would be plain wrong, and that would be that.
How efficient are the manufacturing processes from material use, energy consumption, emission and waste generation viewpoints?
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The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
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Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.
It uses the same composite-material technology to reduce weight and hence fuel consumption.
By leveraging Newport Media's advanced OFDM baseband and RF CMOS technology, the NMC1000 offers levels of performance, power consumption, and external bill of material (BOM) typically associated with the world's leading connectivity solutions providers.
Reverse logistics means controlling the flow of material, inventory and finished goods from point of consumption to point of origin, for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal.
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Before the release, Palin told "Fox News Sunday" that the messages "obviously weren't meant for public consumption, " saying she was sure the material would be taken out of context.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
If you control the entire distribution channel from raw material to retail you might only get hit with the tax twice in going from orignial production to consumption as opposed to multiple times.
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
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