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VIDEO: 'Millions of pounds wasted in hot water'
2013-07-04 08:43:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The research found the average household could save 22 a year on their energy bills by making small changes.
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As much as a third of the world's food is wasted; UK retailer vows to take action
2013-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce food loss and waste. UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of all food produced annually worldwide, worth about $1 trillion, gets either lost or wasted. Converting this to calories, they say, it means one-quarter of all calories intended for human consumption are never eaten. Boxes of spoiled or blemished food, pulled...
Wasted heat from large cities affects temperatures in distant regions
2013-01-27 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The waste heat generated by large cities can affect temperatures in areas hundreds of miles away by changing wind patterns in the upper atmosphere, a study has found. Scientists have estimated that the heat released into the atmosphere from buildings, cars and factories could play a significant role in the warming and the cooling of locations in other countries. Using computer models of how heat is transported around the globe, the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change says that...
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Half the World's Food is Wasted, L.A. Times Reports
2013-01-16 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Protect Your Products with Temperature Monitoring and Alarming CHESTERLAND OH - A new study cited in a recent Los Angeles Times Business section article states that as much as half of all the food produced worldwide ends up as waste every year. Conducted by Britain's Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the study found that as much as 2 billion tons of food is thrown out annually because of poor storage methods, consumers who buy too much, and produce that is deemed not attractive enough to ...This story is related to the following:HVACFood Processing and PreparationSearch for suppliers of: Temperature Measurement Equipment | Time/Temperature Monitors | Cold Chain Monitors | Wireless Data Collection Systems
Throwing our food away: Up to 50% of the food produced worldwide is wasted
2013-01-11 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new report titled Global food, waste not, want not published by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has found that 30 to 50 percent of all food produced in the world never reaches a stomach. The authors of the study warn that these figures are quite conservative. The large amounts of land, energy, fertilizers and water that are wasted in the food production have not been accounted for. In developing countries this waste is mostly due to inefficient harvesting methods, poor storage and transportation...
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