Reducing wastage, for example by buying products with little packaging, is a key component of sustainability.
The natural wastage offered by the looming retirements was a golden opportunity to do just that.
Attempts will be made to reduce the civilian workforce through voluntary redundancies and natural wastage.
Libya is still an old-fashioned statist place and bureaucratic incompetence adds to the wastage.
Retirements and natural wastage would account for a "considerable proportion" of the job cuts.
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The supermarket giant Morrisons said it was working with farmers and suppliers to eliminate wastage.
Since the criteria were relaxed, the proportion of wastage has been altered dramatically, The Telegraph says.
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It called for reductions to be made as far as possible by natural wastage.
But such wastage is a luxury that America can afford because of its relatively lower tax-and-spend burden.
Ray Cartwright, Unite works convener at Brough, said any further job losses must be through natural wastage.
To put that in perspective, India's wheat wastage each year is almost equal to Australia's entire production of wheat.
Researchers believe it could help maintain muscle metabolism and prevent wastage and kick-start movement in patients struck by a syndrome.
Nevertheless, Dr Hall and his colleagues suspect the wastage they have discovered and America's rising levels of obesity are connected.
For example, with 6% inflation and 3% natural wastage, in five years the government head count will be cut by 15%.
This represents a 77% increase on the previous year and, crucially, is above the expected officer wastage rate by some 1, 600 officers.
The council has said it will reduce its workforce by about 750 full-time posts through natural wastage, voluntary redundancies and service changes.
However, the biggest financial and carbon savings came from reducing drugs wastage.
Measures include a recruitment freeze, a small number of redundancies, natural wastage and a review of housekeeping with areas like stationery and catering.
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The second is a kind of aftermarket or recycling program for live video that renders it into shareable on-demand clips with minimal wastage.
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They would share top managers but say this would happen over a number of years through retirements and natural wastage, rather than redundancies.
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He added 10 of the items were rejected on the grounds they were "wastage" but he said they may still be of interest.
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Southend Hospital has achieved a significant reduction in its food wastage.
Director David Orr told members 90 jobs within the department would be lost but he was confident that they would lose these staff through natural wastage.
In part because wastage has been justified as a means of maintaining social harmony, says Masao Miyamoto, a psychiatrist who wrote a bestselling book entitled Straitjacket Society.
Most redundancies are expected to come as a result of natural wastage and a freeze on recruitment, but the NUJ said 30 compulsory redundancies were being disputed.
They said glacier wastage had been seriously underestimated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is trying to assess humanity's influence on the global climate.
He told the BBC that LankaeNews had written many stories critical of what he said was corruption, wastage and cheating "especially on the part of the government".
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"As a result of LEDs it is now possible to place light exactly where it is needed and to greatly reduce spill light and energy wastage, " he said.
If glacier wastage continues at the present trend as observed during the last 2 decades, it will severely affect the water resources in the arid central Andes of Argentina.
Union estimates of 30, 000 public sector job losses in the North East look a reasonable guess, even if some will be lost through natural wastage rather than forced redundancies.
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