search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
It is simply a waste of time.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
Waste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation have resulted in a waste of much of the food we produce and thus a waste of land and resources.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Food waste in less-developed countries happens mainly at the producers' end
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
\There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers,\ said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
It could just be a waste of money.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
The \ Love Food, Hate Waste \ campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B