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Definition: Waste |
WasteAdjective1. Disposed of as useless; "waste paper". 2. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places". Noun1. 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". 2. Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly: "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources". 3. The trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities". 4. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert". 5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. Verb1. Spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends". 2. Use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience". 3. Get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer". 4. Run off as waste: "The water wastes back into the ocean". 5. Get rid of; kill; "The mafia liquidated the informer". 6. Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not". 7. Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away". 8. Cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him". 9. Devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion". 10. : waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waste" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | The excess of cutting over filling on any given construction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of wandering through waste places, foreshadows doubt and failure, where promise of success was bright before you. To dream of wasting your fortune, denotes you will be unpleasantly encumbered with domestic cares. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | 1. Unwanted materials left over from a manufacturing process. 2. Refuse from places of human or animal habitation. (references) |
| A small piece of waste or an unwanted article. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Unwanted materials left over from manufacturing processes; refuse from places of human or animal habitation ; product of a kind produced during the manufacture of semi-finished products or finished products, and which can only be used as raw material. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Waste paper or paper waste with print from paper production or printing works. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Grade six(VI), the lowest grade in the quality sorting of sawn timber, sawn wood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The part of an ore deposit that is too low in grade to be of economic value at the time of mining, but which may be stored separately for possible treatment later b. Refuse and impurities removed in mining and treating coal; also, the coal left in a mine as pillars. c. Gangue. d. Tailings. e. Overburden. f. The refuse from ore dressing and smelting plants. Gob; goaf; old workings; also, the fine coal made in mining and preparing coal for market; culm; coal dirt; also used to signify both the mine waste (such as coal left in pillars) and the breaker waste. g. A working or shaft which has been abandoned and filled with refuse (goaf or gob), or with material from the fall of the hanging wall. Syn:condieh. See:spoil. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | WASTE. House of waste; a tavern or alehouse, where idle people waste both their time and money. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Radioactive waste is waste material containing radioactive chemical elements which does not have a practical purpose. It is often the product of a nuclear process, such as nuclear fission. Waste can also be generated from the processing of fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons.
The radioactivity of all nuclear waste decays with time. All radioisotopes contained in the waste have a half-life - the time it takes for any radionuclide to lose half of its radioactivity. Eventually all waste decays into non-radioactive elements.
The faster a radioisotope is decaying, the more radioactive it will be. The factor in deciding how dangerous a pure radioactive substance will be is the energy of the radiation. Some decays yield more energy than others. This is further complicated by the fact that few radioisotopes decay immediately to a stable state, but rather to a radioactive decay product leading to decay chains.
The main objective in managing and disposing of radioactive (or other) waste is to protect people and the environment. This means isolating or diluting the waste so that the rate or concentration of any radionuclides returned to the biosphere is harmless. To achieve this for the more dangerous wastes, the preferred technology to date has been deep and secure burial. Transmutation, long-term retrievable storage, and removal to space have also been suggested.
Types of radioactive waste
Low level Waste (LLW) is generated from hospitals and industry, as well as the nuclear fuel cycle. It comprises paper, rags, tools, clothing, filters etc which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity. It does not require shielding during handling and transport and is suitable for shallow land burial. To reduce its volume, it is often compacted or incinerated before disposal.
Intermediate level Waste (ILW) contains higher amounts of radioactivity and some requires shielding. It typically comprises resins, chemical sludges and metal fuel cladding, as well as contaminated materials from reactor decommissioning. It may be solidified in concrete or bitumen for disposal. Generally short lived waste (mainly from reactors) is buried in a shallow repository, while long lived waste (from fuel reprocessing) will be disposed of deep underground.
High level Waste (HLW) arises from the use of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons processing. It contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core. It is highly radioactive and hot. It can be considered the "ash" from "burning" uranium. HLW accounts for over 95% of the total radioactivity produced in the process of nuclear electricity generation.
Wastes from nuclear reactor fuel processing
Uranium oxide concentrate from mining is not significantly radioactive - barely more so than the granite used in buildings. It is refined to form yellowcake (U3O8), then converted to uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). As a gas, it undergoes enrichment to increase the U-235 content from 0.7% to about 3.5%. It is then turned into a hard ceramic oxide (UO2) for assembly as reactor fuel elements.
The main by-product of enrichment is depleted uranium, principally the U-238 isotope, which is stored, either as UF6 or as U3O8. Some is used in applications where its extremely high density makes it valuable, such as the keels of yachts, and artillery shells. It is also used (with recycled plutonium) for making mixed oxide fuel and to dilute highly enriched uranium from weapons stockpiles which is now being redirected to become reactor fuel.
Disposing of high-level wastes
High-level radioactive waste is stored temporarily in spent fuel pools and in dry cask storage facilities.
In 1997, in the 20 countries which account for most of the world's nuclear power generation, spent fuel storage capacity at the reactors was 148,000 tonnes, with 59% of this utilised. Away-from-reactor storage capacity was 78,000 tonnes, with 44% utilised. Annual arisings are about 12,000 tonnes. Final disposal is therefore not urgent.
France is furthest ahead with preparation for HLW disposal. In 1989 and 1992 it commissioned commercial plants to vitrify HLW left over from reprocessing oxide fuel, although there are adequate facilities elsewhere, notably in the UK and Belgium. The capacity of these western European plants is 2,500 canisters (1000 t) a year, and some have been operating for 18 years.
The Australian Synroc (synthetic rock) is a more sophisticated way to immobilize such waste, and this process may eventually come into commercial use for civil wastes (it is curently being developed for US military wastes).
The process of selecting appropriate deep final repositories is now under way in several countries with the first expected to be commissioned some time after 2010. Sweden is well advanced with plans for direct disposal of spent fuel, since its Parliament decided that this is acceptably safe, using existing technology. In Germany, there is a political discussion about the search for an endlager (final repository) for radioactive waste, accompanied by loud protests especially in the Gorleben village in the Wendland area, which was seen ideal for the final repository until 1990 because its location next to the border to the former GDR. Actually this place is used to store radioactive waste non-permanently. The US has opted for a final repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. There is also a proposal for an international HLW repository in optimum geology - Australia or Russia are possible locations - however, when the proposal for a global repository for Australia has been raised domestic political objections have been loud and sustained, making such a dump in Australia unlikely.
References
- The US Nuclear Regulatory Agency has an informative website: http://www.nrc.gov/waste.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Radioactive waste."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Waste is unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process.
Waste can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas. When released as a liquid or gas, waste is referred to as emissions. Identifying waste is a subjective matter, and waste is only defined as such when perceived as such. Some see waste as a negative externality, but it can also be viewed as a potential resource as in industrial ecology.
Natural waste and Human waste
Waste produced in the wild is reintegrated through natural recycling processes, such as dry leaves in a forest decomposing into soil. Outside of the wild these wastes may become problematic, such as dry leaves in an urban environment. The highest volume of waste, outside of nature, comes from human industrial activity: mining waste, industrial waste, post-consumer waste, and so on. Most manufactured products are destined to become waste at some point in time, with a volume of waste production roughly similar to the volume of resource consumption.Sustainable use requires a system view of environment issues. Let's suppose a consumer has a choice between apples coming from his own country, and those imported by ship. Which apple would consume the most energy to acquire? It depends on the consumer: if he goes by bicycle to the shop, the homegrown apple requires less energy. However, if he goes to buy the apple by car, it might be that the energy requirement of the car from home to the shop be higher than the energy required to import the apple to the shop, not even counting CO2 emissions.
Solid wastes and emission wastes
When one considers that every product ends up as waste, it might be a good idea to analyse matter entering the production cycle, rather than analysing wastes that are usually diluted as a result of the process. For example, a consumer buying products containing heavy metals in small quantities will probably not detect these heavy metals in the resulting waste. An analysis of products entering the production system, and a guarantee from the provider, might be a wiser approach to prevent the final pollution (example : a farmer receiving sewage sludge to landfill on some of his field for fertilizing; the sewage sludge analysis is more likely to reveal the pollution than the soil itself after a couple of years) (see also The Natural Step).
Solid wastes : to eliminate, to reuse, to avoid
Post-consumer waste is the waste produced by the end-user (the garbage one puts outside in the trash can). This is the waste people usually think of. But though the most visible, this is very small compare to the waste created in the process of mining and production.The ecological rucksack of industrial production is the total amount of waste related to a good in the course of its life cycle. For some metals, such as gold, the rucksack can be of a volume of 500 000 times the volume of metal extracted. For each gram of gold produced, 500 kg of mining waste is produced, containing other heavy metals which may pollute the atmosphere in their powdered form. These manufacturing wastes are by far the greatest output of many industrial production systems. In the United States, 93% of natural resources extracted are never transformed in goods, 80% of goods sold are thrown away after only one use, 99% of resources in a good are "waste" within 6 weeks of sale. There are very large potential gains in eco-efficiency, increasing the ratio of production unit per unit of natural resource, and decreasing the ratio of waste generated as a by-product. But mining waste is often perceived as waste only in case of an ecological crisis or as undesirable emissions.
Industry is slowly moving toward better use of its wastes. Industrial ecology for example is a method which consists of using the waste of a factory (matter or heat) as resources for another factory. (See the industrial district of Kalundborg in Sweden). Most wastes issues are due to products rejected outside of the manufacturing process, or those for which industries do not feel responsible: disposable packaging, free goods for advertisement. Shifting from service leasing rather than goods selling might be a solution.
Types of waste
Industrial waste -- Chemical waste -- Toxic waste -- municipal waste -- Greywater -- medical waste -- used oil -- batteries -- mining waste -- garbage (see: Waste) -- radioactive waste -- tires.
Treatment and control
landfill -- combustion -- composting -- recycling
See also
waste management - full-cost accounting - waste minimization - waste-matching - Downcycling - Lifecycle assessment - Post-consumer waste - Pre-consumer waste - Product lifecycle - Product life -- By-product - Waste DTD - Pay-as-you-throw - public bad -- willingness-to-pay -- Waste vegetable oil .
Autonomous building - Clean design
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waste."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Waste is a peer-to-peer protocol and software, developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft. It was subsequently removed from distribution by AOL, Nullsoft's parent company.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waste (computer program)."
Synonyms: WasteSynonyms: cast-off(a) (adj), desert (adj), discarded (adj), godforsaken (adj), junked (adj), scrap(a) (adj), wild (adj), barren (n), dissipation (n), permissive waste (n), thriftlessness (n), waste material (n), waste matter (n), waste product (n), wastefulness (n), wasteland (n), blow (v), consume (v), desolate (v), devastate (v), do in (v), emaciate (v), knock off (v), languish (v), lay waste to (v), liquidate (v), macerate (v), pine away (v), ravage (v), rot (v), run off (v), squander (v), ware (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: reclaimed (environment, industry), swilled (food & agriculture). |
| Antonym: conserve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
Contraction | Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate). |
Inactivity | Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours. |
Inutility | Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads. |
Caput mortuum, waste paper, dead letter; blunt tool. | |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble. |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Prodigality | Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe. |
Prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel, squanderer, locust; high roller. | |
Untimeliness | Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | But I guess I'd say if it is just us seems like an awful waste of space (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) What a waste of ammo (Alien: Resurrection; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) A waste of space as it is on an unsinkable ship (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) We were going to waste our educated minds--we had no other way of fighting (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.) One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price) | |
Lyrics | Racin' the place, no time to waste (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) Such a human waste your eyes without a face (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers, (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel) Why does she waste all her time with me (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) In the paper today tales of war and of waste (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House) | |
Clever | A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. (references; author: Mark Twain) I was going to waste, but Jesus recycled me. (references; author: unknown) Time is like money: You can either spend, waste, or invest! (references; author: unknown) To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half don't know. (references; author: unknown) Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all the time, and have the time of your life. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Waste Motion (1974) Paste Makes Waste (1968) Waste Places (1967) The Waste Land (1995) | |
Song Titles | Waste (performing artist: Smash Mouth) | |
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 | THIS IS A STOCK PHOTO. Pictured is a factory spewing smoke into the air. This is meant to show the possible negative effects to humans and to the environment of waste pollutants. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Workers in protective clothing to guard against contamination from hazardous waste. Credit: CDC. |
 | Toxic waste dump, superfund site. Credit: CDC. |  | Feasibility studies for potential nuclear waste dump site Conducted for Atomic Energy Commission. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "The Russia Cement Company's Plant at Anacortes". This plant made glue and other products from fish processing waste, not cement. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 108. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Greenhill/East Timbalier above ground waste pit associated with petroleum facility. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Ice floe passing by loaded with trash and waste from Point Barrow, 80 miles to the west. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea relatively low in nutrients and fishery productivity. It has become increasingly polluted owing to runoff by nutrients from waste disposal and agriculture. Catch of key species such as Black Sea anchovy has fallen, relecting environmental degradation. High exploitation levels have also depleted important stocks such as blue fin tuna and swordfish. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Surface run off, waste pile at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Part of the Blackbird Mine site, the Bucktail drainage basin. This image shows contaminated waste rock and tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Pipe for waste water" by Kim Heisler Commentary: "Slop pipe. Schmutzwasser means waste water." | "Toxic waste" by Joanna Kopik Commentary: "An empty barrel." |
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| Author | Quotation |
(jean) Louis | I cannot afford to waste my time making money. |
Benjamin Franklin | Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste. |
Joe Hill | Don't waste any time mourning -- organize! |
Oscar Wilde | Time is waste of money. |
Philip Johnson | Architecture is the art of how to waste space. |
Thomas Fuller | Willful waste brings woeful want. |
Thomas Love Peacock | The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. |
William Shakespeare | I wasted time, and now time doth waste me. |
| We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. | |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall take from the land of the heir nothing but reasonable produce, reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction or waste of men or goods; and if we have committed the wardship of the lands of any such minor to the sheriff, or to any other who is responsible to us for its issues, and he has made destruction or waster of what he holds in wardship, we will take of him amends, and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall be responsible for the issues to us or to him to whom we shall assign them; and if we have given or sold the wardship of any such land to anyone and he has therein made destruction or waste, he shall lose that wardship, and it shall be transferred to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible to us in like manner as aforesaid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | But, on the contrary, the inhabitants think themselves beholden to him, who, by his industry on neglected, and consequently waste land, has increased the stock of corn, which they wanted. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They usually met at nightfall, their waking hour, in the waste grounds near La Salpetriere |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They get rid of waste and extra fluid. (references) | |
This fluid waste is stored in the bladder as urine. (references) | ||
Cobalt 60 may also be disposed of as a radioactive waste. (references) | ||
Business | Technologies do not generate hazardous waste. (references) | |
Waste oil can be burnt as a fuel after treatment. (references) | ||
These must be treated differently from other waste. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Liberia | Some non-Muslims criticized this action as a waste of scarce resources. (references) |
Swaziland | In general both the government-owned and independent newspapers covered a wide variety of sensitive topics and criticized government corruption, inefficiency, and waste, frequently using harsh invective. (references) | |
Syria | Also in February, the Government permitted the publication of a private satirical weekly newspaper, The Lamplighter, which criticized politically nonsensitive instances of government waste and corruption. (references) | |
Economic History | France | Nuclear waste is stored on site at reprocessing facilities. (references) |
Belgium | Belgium has an excellent record of national waste management. (references) | |
Lebanon | Land--61% urban, desert, or waste; 21% agricultural; 8% forested. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Most prison facilities lack proper ventilation, plumbing, lighting, waste disposal, or sanitary medical facilities. (references) |
Russia | Pasko originally was charged with treason and espionage after reporting on radioactive contamination caused by the Pacific Fleet's dumping of radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan. (references) | |
Mozambique | Latrine facilities were primitive; in some prisons, inmates were forced to keep human waste in their cells until they persuaded or bribed attendants to remove it. Food was substandard and scarce. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Dalits are considered unclean by higher caste Hindus and thus traditionally are relegated to separate villages or neighborhoods and to low paying and often undesirable occupations (such as scavenging, street sweeping, and removing human waste and dead animals). (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | Exceptions include activities related to national security and the disposal of hazardous waste. (references) |
BOLIVIA | The Bolivian Export Law prohibited the import of products that might affect the preservation of wildlife, particularly nuclear waste. (references) | |
Trade | Peru | Importation of some insecticides, fireworks, and toxic waste is also restricted. (references) |
Jordan | The government bans the import of plastic waste, the narcotic plant "qat", and diesel passenger cars. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | It concentrates on four areas, namely power, telecommunications, transport and solid waste management. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | When doing business in Egypt, be prepared to play it in the Egyptian tradition, or you may waste your time. (references) |
Albania | Time spent drinking coffee is considered an integral part of the meeting and should not be dismissed as a waste of time. (references) | |
Women | Vietnam | Very poor women, especially in rural areas but also in cities, perform menial work in construction, waste removal, and other jobs for extremely low wages. (references) |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | Each facility also has its own water system, waste disposal system, generator for electricity, and transportation system. (references) |
Indonesia | NGO's have ongoing programs to teach children to avoid hazardous waste such as syringes and other potentially toxic waste. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
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Dennis Miller | It's better to just let the Ku Klux Klan march through your town than it is to waste your time and money trying to stop them. |
Julie Andrews | My. Well, a lot of people have passed on. And Dudley, I think, is one of the saddest of them all. What a waste. |
Martha Stewart | So how can we help you spend more time with your children, not waste time doing silly things, or things that are everyday things that you have to do, but we could help you do them much faster. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Besides the extraordinary expense and waste, which are not the least of the defects, every appeal to those laws is attended with a doubt on its success. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | To avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our navy-yard here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | With riches has come inexcusable waste. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Wherever waste is found, I will eliminate it. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I have cut waste wherever possible. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Waste and fraud are serious problems. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time. |
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| "Waste" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.72% of the time. "Waste" is used about 4,857 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.72% | 2,949 | 3,164 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.33% | 793 | 8,741 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.27% | 790 | 8,774 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.64% | 323 | 16,021 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,857 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "waste". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baasha | N/A | Biblical | Lays waste |
| Balak | N/A | Biblical | Who lays waste or destroys |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| New Zealand | Waste Management NZ Ltd | United Kingdom | Waste Recycling Group plc |
| USA | Allied Waste Industries Incorporated | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "waste": Alkali waste ♦ animal waste ♦ body waste ♦ brewing dregs and waste ♦ card waste ♦ cinnamon waste ♦ coarse waste of animal hair ♦ combing waste ♦ compostable waste ♦ Cop waste ♦ cotton waste ♦ cutting and stinging waste ♦ cylinder strip waste ♦ degradable waste ♦ demolition waste ♦ Dental Waste ♦ dirty waste stream ♦ fat obtained from waste ♦ flat strip waste ♦ flax waste ♦ floating waste ♦ food waste ♦ food waste disposal unit ♦ food waste disposer ♦ gaseous waste disposal system ♦ go to waste ♦ gone to waste ♦ great haste makes waste ♦ haste makes waste ♦ hazardous chemical waste ♦ hazardous waste ♦ high active waste ♦ human waste ♦ Impeachment of waste ♦ industrial waste ♦ industrial waste water ♦ infectious waste ♦ internal waste ♦ lay waste ♦ lay waste to ♦ laying waste ♦ lie waste ♦ liquid waste ♦ Medical Waste ♦ Medical Waste Disposal ♦ municipal waste ♦ nuclear waste ♦ olive waste ♦ operation waste ♦ permissive waste ♦ pharmaceutical waste ♦ radioactive waste ♦ remove the waste from ♦ rock waste ♦ run to waste ♦ running to waste ♦ soda waste ♦ solid waste ♦ solid waste disposal ♦ strip waste ♦ sulfite waste liquor ♦ sulphite waste liquor ♦ textile waste ♦ to lay waste ♦ to minimize the production of secondary waste ♦ toxic industrial waste ♦ toxic waste ♦ toxic waste dump ♦ toxic waste site ♦ ultimate radioactive waste disposal site ♦ voluntary waste ♦ waste a country ♦ waste area ♦ waste away ♦ waste basket ♦ waste board ♦ waste channels ♦ waste collection ♦ waste concentration processes ♦ waste courses ♦ waste disposal ♦ waste disposal information message ♦ waste disposal plan ♦ waste disposal plant ♦ waste disposal site ♦ waste dump ♦ waste flushing ♦ waste fuels ♦ waste gas ♦ waste gate ♦ waste grinder ♦ waste in conversion ♦ waste incineration ♦ waste land ♦ waste liquid ♦ Waste Management ♦ waste material ♦ waste matter ♦ waste mill ♦ waste money ♦ waste of effort. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "waste": waste-assimilating, waste-basket, waste-bin, waste-collection, waste-decomposing, waste-disposal, waste-export, waste-factory, waste-free, waste-fuel, waste-ground, waste-incineration, waste-land, waste-lands, waste-lots, waste-management, waste-of-time, waste-paper, waste-paper basket, waste-paper-basket, waste-pipe, waste-pipes, waste-processing, waste-products, waste-reduction, waste-smuggling, waste-sorting, waste-stream, waste-that, waste-to-energy, waste-treatment, waste-watch, waste-water. | |
Ending with "waste": anti-waste, hazardous-waste, nuclear-waste. | |
Containing "waste": animal-waste-rendering, anti-waste-dumping, nuclear-waste-repository. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
waste management | 2,003 | bfi management waste | 67 |
waste | 981 | waste container | 67 |
hazardous waste | 271 | waste to energy | 62 |
waste water treatment | 213 | medical waste | 61 |
nullsoft waste | 212 | waste treatment | 61 |
waste disposal | 186 | consulting reduction waste | 60 |
nuclear waste | 175 | waste of time | 58 |
toxic waste | 117 | solid waste management | 56 |
waste water | 115 | paper waste | 55 |
allied waste | 113 | waste management company | 51 |
waste management inc | 112 | waste connection | 50 |
radiohead waste | 88 | hazardous waste disposal | 50 |
bfi waste | 88 | file sharing waste | 47 |
waste basket | 88 | waste king | 45 |
solid waste | 85 | waste industry | 45 |
the waste land | 77 | waste oil heater | 42 |
inc management management waste waste wmi | 76 | waste receptacle | 42 |
nuclear waste disposal | 72 | p2p waste | 40 |
recycling waste | 71 | waste removal | 39 |
waste reduction | 70 | setup.exe waste | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "waste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, windfall). (various references) | |
Albanian | i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, poor, wild), ha ngadalë, harxhoj kot (go dutch), humb (disappear, forfeit, lose, mislay, Miss), humbas (drop, lose, Miss, miss out on, reave, reive), humbet (die, disperse, dissolve, leak away), humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage), i çuar dëm (misspent), i braktisur (cast off, castaway, derelict, desolate, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, lorn, love-lorn, neglected, odd, stand empty, untrodden), i humbur (dupe, faraway, forfeit, gone, lorn, loser, losing, lost, missing, stray, strayed), i përdorur (exhausted, second hand, used), e papunuar, i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, zap), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping), i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, wrack), plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, trash), qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick, |