This has translated into a vast reduction in waste and assembly-line slowdowns.
As he says, a lot of people will freak out this, but its another step along the same line of waste reduction as what we hoped The Times would eliminate (someday) by having copyeditors or writers tag their work once at the point of inception and bake that stuff into the files that flowed downstream from there.
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It was an approach that said we need to go through the budget line-by-line looking for waste, without shortchanging education and basic scientific research and road construction, because those things are essential to our future.
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To put surplus food to better use, the Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with businesses and organizations in the Food Recovery Challenge, which is helping participants support their communities through food donation and protect their bottom line by reducing waste.
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No need to have to waste precious shopping time standing in line to pay.
This is social waste: people are standing in line at the unemployment office when they could be doing something productive.
But the on-line retailer who can't afford waste is usually better off with a revenue-sharing model.
He compared the two parties' differences on the policy to a "great dividing line", with "Labour standing for waste and taxes" while the Tories stand for "efficiency and aspiration".
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Americans generate 2.5 million tons of e-waste a year more than enough to fill a line of dump trucks from our Nation's capital to Disney World.
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But, with a higher minimum wage they will suddenly eliminate that waste to cover higher labor costs, adding nothing to the bottom line?
Because the mobile-phone companies get paid in advance, they waste no time or money on chasing bad debts, as fixed-line firms do.
When vetting companies for our portfolios, our seven-member investment committees look closely at their eco-credentials: hunting for positives (such as recycling programs, clean energy initiatives, an earth-friendly product line) and screening for negatives (toxic emissions, hazardous waste liabilities, harmful community impact).
This is not only a terrible waste of talent and human capital but also a huge burden on the bottom line.
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Eric Pickles has consistently argued that it is by bearing down on waste and duplication that local authorities can find the necessary savings without damaging front-line services.
So employers are wasting money that they could eliminate and add to the bottom line but they chose not to, to earn less than they could if waste was eliminated.
He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets "line by line, " and reinstate a "pay as you go" rule from the 1990s.
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