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- Dictionarywaste/weɪst/
verb
- 1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: "we can't afford to waste electricity" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated: "she was visibly wasting away" Similar Opposite
adjective
- 1. (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process: "ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on: "a patch of waste ground" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: "it's a waste of time trying to argue with him" Similar
- 2. unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products: "nuclear waste" Similar
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1 day ago · Waste can be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management. Waste management deals with all types of waste, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, radioactive wastes. In some cases, waste can pose a threat to human health.
5 days ago · Recycling, recovery and reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products. The basic phases in recycling are the collection of waste materials, their processing or manufacture into new products, and the purchase of those products, which may then themselves be recycled.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · The two terms – sanitation and waste management – both refer to waste, but sanitation is primarily concerned with liquid waste and waste management is primarily concerned with solid waste. Liquid wastes are any wastes in a liquid form such as wastewater and sewage.
18 hours ago · Definitions of what constitutes food loss versus food waste or what parts of foods (i.e., inedible parts) exit the food supply chain are considered lost or wasted vary. Terms are often defined on a situational basis (as is the case more generally with definitions of waste).
4 days ago · pollution, the addition of any substance ( solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.
3 days ago · Introduction. In this study session you will learn about the basic concepts and principles of waste management. The definition of common terms and discussion of the concepts, principles and classification of wastes will help you understand the subject of waste management.
4 days ago · Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. [2] [1] Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social. [1] . Many definitions emphasize the environmental dimension.
