material consumption

I don't know how he's managing to hide his power and materials consumption from our computer searches."

Material consumption as the answer to the mystery of life leads to an endless escalation, because all things do grow old.

When the service life of a product is increased, the material consumption per unit of time decreases.

To vigorously cut down material consumption, particularly that of energy, and keep production in line with the availability of resources.

There's no physical production involved, no materials consumption and no distribution costs.

This is a very interesting discussion, but it shows the problem with analysing consumption based primarily on material consumption.

Comparisons of material consumption, refrigerant charge, heat transfer performance and energy efficiency have been demonstrated.

On the other hand, he calls on people to reduce material consumption and to seek fulfilment in other ways.

The result is a higher proportion of paint reaching the target surface with reduced overspray, materials consumption, and air pollution.

Like most industrial processes, the manufacture of textiles has a number of negative environmental effects, including water, energy, and raw material consumption.

Q. Despite the increased discussion of sustainability, material consumption in the United States has escalated.

This generally reduces material consumption.

As this floor type is made of complete prefab elements with no structural coherence, support moments are absent, resulting in increased material consumption.

As an Emys orbicularis turtle grows in age and becomes an adult the amount of plant material consumption increases during the post breeding period.

Material consumption & landfill waste will be reduced by recycling, composting, reuse & repair, and urban agriculture.

We cannot decouple, the best we can manage is a more elastic relationship between GDP and material consumption.

"Not only is this impossible on a finite planet, but growing evidence suggests that beyond a certain point, more material consumption does nothing to make us better off."

The expanding textile industry affects the environment by increasing its water deficit, climate change, pollution, and fossil fuel and raw material consumption.

Marx theorized that society was an organization that thrived off of material consumption and from this obsession, class consciousness was created.

While not all product service systems result in the reduction of material consumption, they are more widely being recognized as an important part of a firm's environmental strategy.

From what I can see from their respective careers, these two have no other message other than self-congratulation, material consumption, and excessively flamboyant lifestyles.

Direct Material Consumption (DMC): this indicator accounts all materials that are consumed within or remain in the domestic environment.

Mr. Borgmann attributes this malady to the erosion of familial and communal ties and their replacement by the ritual of material consumption.

The main sources of GHG emissions for Oakland have been identified as transportation and land use, building energy use, and material consumption and waste.

It's the growth in consumption in places like India & China that is creating the high commodity prices, not increases in material consumption in western Europe.