Waste (noun)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 429.

1. Industrial waste had leaked into the water supply. 2. It's a good idea to recycle household waste. 3. The committee will study the issue of waste in state spending. 4. The costs of waste disposal are rising all the time. 5. The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad. 6. Too much waste has been dumped into the North Sea. 7. But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time. 8. In the absence of domestic reprocessing facilities, waste is rapidly piling up in storage. 9. Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life, and effectively found itself a conscience. 10. Specially engineered vaults should be constructed so that the waste could be regularly monitored and, if necessary, retrieved. 11. The Commission has already proposed establishing a compensation fund for damage caused by waste. 12. The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site. 13. The site is expected to begin receiving waste during the next few weeks. 14. An unrealistically low offer is a waste of time. 15. As I said, many of these divisions of investigation will be a waste of time. 16. But it was a waste of time. 17. He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time. 18. I feel annoyed, it is a waste of time. 19. Marx thought that scholarly contemplation was a waste of time. 20. Which was a waste of time really, because all I wanted to do was join Granpa on the barrow. 21. While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time. 22. Don't let all this food go to waste. 23. If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste. 24. Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food. 25. We can't let all our hard work go to waste.