sustainable alternative

collocation in English

meaningsofsustainableandalternative

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sustainable
adjective
uk
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/us
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/
able to continue over a period ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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(Definition ofsustainableandalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To provide asustainablealternativestrategy to chemical pest control, a diversity of control methods must be integrated into the pest control programme.
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Economics of grazing stocker cattle as asustainablealternativeto row crops.
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It is an indictment of their failure to regenerate urban brownfield sites as asustainablealternativelocation for new houses.
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Companies’ profits ought to be used to developsustainablealternativeforms of energy.
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Drip-irrigation systems and soaker hoses are a moresustainablealternativeto the traditional sprinkler system.
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Biomass from algae offers asustainablealternativeto products and fuels from the petrochemical industry.
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Biogenic methane is used as asustainablealternativeto fossil fuels.
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We must move to the simpler way: an outline of the global situation, thesustainablealternativesociety, and the transition to it.
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Civic agriculture represents asustainablealternativeto the potentially destructive practices of conventional, large-scale agriculture.
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Either e-cycling process, domestic processing or overseas repair, helps the environment by avoiding pollution and being asustainablealternativeto disposing of e-waste in landfills.
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It is used as a cheaper and moresustainablealternativeto rock fill.
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Plants have been engineered to exhibit bioluminescence which might one day be asustainablealternativeto electric lighting.
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Fungal resistance to herbivores represents an environmentallysustainablealternativeto pesticides that has experienced reasonable success in agricultural applications.
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These communities are heavily dependent on forest resources, which are being depleted, and work is underway to securesustainablealternativelivelihoods for these communities.
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Shade-grown coffee can often earn a premium as a more environmentallysustainablealternativeto mainstream sun-grown coffee.
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This helped to conserve the unique local biodiversity and encouraged the local communities to makesustainablealternativeuses of the available resources.
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Coir has been touted as asustainablealternativeto peat moss in growing media.
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Fish farming has been proposed as a moresustainablealternativeto traditional capture of wild fish.
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No further additives are required to promote bonding and, for example, a resulting biocomposite as a moresustainablealternativeto one using a synthetic binding system.
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Freeland's community outreach projects are a model for rural community engagement promotingsustainablealternativelivelihoods and forest stewardship.
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