Such steps include ending wasteful practices like the destruction of rain forests, he said.

I wonder what medical opinion is of this wasteful practice?

It is a ludicrously wasteful practice, especially in a time of war and sky-high energy costs.

No longer did anyone do laundry or cooking by hand; that wasteful practice had been shoved aside in the rush.

Under the plan, competition squeezes out wasteful practices and holds down prices.

Eliminating those tiny wasteful practices, he wrote, could make a big difference between success and failure.

Planned obsolescence has also been criticized as a wasteful practice under capitalism.

This can be regarded as an economically wasteful practice.

Critics say the union is responsible for many of the jobs and wasteful practices that make the schools so costly.

To cover the monumental cost of such wasteful practices as the above.