waste products

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• waste products — debris that results form a process that is not useful any more to the system that produces it …   English contemporary dictionary

• Waste management — is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics.… …   Wikipedia

• waste product — UK US noun [C] PRODUCTION ► a material or substance with no use or value that is produced when products are being made: »The site offers advice on the responsible disposal of IT waste products. »break down/recycle/remove waste products… …   Financial and business terms

• waste — wāst n 1) loss through breaking down of bodily tissue 2) wastes pl bodily waste materials: EXCREMENT waste vb, wast·ed; wast·ing vt to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength …   Medical dictionary

• waste product — waste .product n a useless material or substance that is produced during the process of making something else →↑by product ▪ nuclear waste products …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• waste — [c]/weɪst / (say wayst) verb (wasted, wasting) –verb (t) 1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail; squander: to waste money; to waste time; to waste effort; to waste words. 2. to fail or neglect to use …  

• waste — wastable, adj. wasteless, adj. /wayst/, v., wasted, wasting, n., adj. v.t. 1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words. 2. to fail or neglect to use: to …   Universalium

• waste — v., adj., & n. v. 1 tr. use to no purpose or for inadequate result or extravagantly (waste time). 2 tr. fail to use (esp. an opportunity). 3 tr. (often foll. by on) give (advice etc.), utter (words etc.), without effect. 4 tr. & intr. wear… …   Useful english dictionary

• waste product — noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted they collect the waste once a week much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers • Syn: ↑waste, ↑waste material, ↑waste matter • Derivationally related forms: ↑waste …   Useful english dictionary

• waste — I. noun Etymology: Middle English waste, wast; in sense 1, from Anglo French wast, from wast, gast, guast, adjective, desolate, waste, from Latin vastus; in other senses, from Middle English wasten to waste more at vast Date: 13th century 1. a. a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• waste — 01. One major pollution problem is that governments don t know what to do with the [waste] produced by nuclear power plants. 02. Dishwashers are very [wasteful] in terms of water and electricity. It s better to wash dishes by hand. 03. Don t… …   Grammatical examples in English