How To Use Waste In A Sentence

With the Senate gearing up for an all-consuming battle over judicial nominations, Congress has no time to waste.
They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid. Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
But that means there will be a lot of pumpkin flesh left over - and it shouldn't go to waste. The Sun

She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
The pilot process is a monstrous waste of time and money, stunningly inefficient an you say "amortize" kids? Re-Arranging the Deck Chairs
This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
If a bloke's a waiter, it ain't fair to bung him down as a ` waster ". STAGE FRIGHT
The waste from a defunct reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.
But other waste streams pose bigger challenges like this stuff, called swarf, a mixture of metal shavings and liquids. CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2008
People like Momtaz Begum simply sweep up their waste and dump it into the barrel.
Radioactive waste is simply spent fuel.
Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste, so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate.
In addition to information about glassified waste from national defense projects, such as plutonium production at Hanford, DOE also is interested in information that could be useful if the nation decides to reprocess commercial nuclear fuel and then glassify the waste from reprocessing. The Seattle Times
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers .. 'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
Because the alkali waste mainly contains sodium sulphide, sodium carbonate and some organic matters, which restrict the comprehensive utilization of alkali waste.
The Argentine ace scored his 150th goal for the club but wasted a series of chances to put the game to bed. The Sun
Limited incineration is already a key part of the government's waste management strategy.
After first-round draft pick Sylvester Morris ended a 20-day holdout by signing a seven-year deal, the team didn't want to waste any time getting him on the field.
High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities. Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height
The waste water is kept entirely separate from the rainwater.
Bibi's here to raise funds period and why Obama wasted time on him again send a strong signal that AIPAC still runs this issue. Emanuel: Settlement issue should not block Mideast peace
The Company's flagship product, the Sharps Disposal by Mail System (R), is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to dispose of medical waste such as hypodermic needles, lancets and any other medical device or objects used to puncture or lacerate the skin (referred to as "sharps"). Undefined
I made a note of Mahoney's home address and returned the paper to the waste basket.
The essence of this approach, perhaps, is the avoidance of process waste by using automation to avoid "information backflow".
This is not a dishy, tell-all tale of wasted days and wasted nights.
Throwing a cup of bicarbonate of soda down a septic toilet each week will help to reduce acidity, and encourage the growth of waste-digesting bacteria.
There's less wasteful packaging and you can be much more confident about where your food has come from. Times, Sunday Times
Its speed can be influenced by the waste-gate valve, which is controlled by the pressure-driven converter.
I'm a lazy good-for-nothing at heart, so I don't want to waste my precious leisure time paying bills.
Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
I'd heard of the building, and sighed when I saw the pictures, but you really have to see it to see what a wasted opportunity it is.
However once the technology becomes available it will also be used for kitchen waste, such as vegetable peelings, and cardboard.
Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
Some of the components of the bioregenerative farm considered for application in rural regions of developing countries stem from results and experiences accomplished by using sophisticated techniques, such as algal systems for life-support space applications (3), for food production (4), for treatment of municipal wastes (5), etc. Chapter 17
About ￡3 billion went on reducing pollution caused by all kinds of waste and ￡2.4 billion on curbing air pollution.
This despite being part of a school system which demonstrably does not waste much of its money on bureaucracy and aggrandizement of its own honchos; the system has no trouble educating half of its students.
The end product is the same - waste material is recycled to the benefit of the environment.
Waste must be brought in a non - returnable container.
The rise was to fund concessionary bus fares, compulsory waste recycling, increased National Insurance, extra planning staff and pay rises, he explained.
Wondering how the wasted Stevenson could work so tirelessly, La Farge decided he must be an aitu, a Samoan devil spirit not bound by the laws of the flesh. The Five of Hearts
This is a waste and useless tyre.
There were some amazing works there, although I'm sure they were completely wasted on my philistine eyes.
Traders in Waterfoot hit out at DEFRA'S new guidelines that rule all waste disposed of by business owners must be accompanied by a certificate of proof, showing how the waste was disposed.
The irony was wasted on the Americans as they swarmed down the crumbling alleys.
Set national standards for the collection and processing of household waste. Times, Sunday Times
Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
We are working to ensure women can safely cook, and don't put themselves in harm's way gathering firewood by providing safe, efficient stoves and teaching women to create fuel briquettes made out of organic waste. Josette Sheeran: We Can End Hunger: 10 Ways to Feed the World
Having experienced spells of acute water scarcity at periodic intervals, people do lament over the waste of the precious resource in such times.
Microbes decompose organic waste into a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide.
If a cook does not get a discerning customer, all his efforts and culinary skills would be wasted.
Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket.
In addition, as Streamline is an arrowless, lighter, lower-volume set, it delivers significant operational benefits to customers through savings in dialyses, water, heparin, smaller dialyzer size, supplies, and waste disposal. Undefined
The wheels of the tippers sank when the waste was being removed.
All sorts of treasures have been found in the pile of waste, which is why the council receives income from the salvage contractor to help provide funding for a recycling advisor at the site.
The girl made use of some waste cloth and made a skirt for the doll.
A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
The mouth is typically the only opening to the digestive tract, they use the same opening to both ingest food and egest waste. Platyhelminthes
That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing, it was incredible.
In the second session, children were exposed to art works such as art from waste, clay modelling, making Papier-mache dolls and pot painting.
He said he is adamant the waste from the sewage treatment plant situated on the Lea Road is not the cause of the alleged fish kills along the river.
In the past, asbestos has been widely used by South African companies to produce a wide range of products, including gaskets, seals, brake linings, roofing sheets, gutters and other building products, waste pipes and flower pots.
The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health.
Bury council hopes that cutting down from fortnightly collections of general waste will encourage recycling and save on landfill tax and treatment costs. Times, Sunday Times
The new 100% Proficiency scheme has also brought an added bonus - a rapid reduction in the amount of waste materials during training.
Without attention spans we will never see what is really there and we will spend all of our time concerned with the ideas and things that the illuminati want us to waste our times with rather than seeing the bigger picture.
The government faces implacable opposition on the issue of nuclear waste.
The 70s were a cultural wasteland.
It is a vast wasteland the size of Texas that collects huge quantities of rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
And bitterness is just such a wasted time and emotion. Valerie Plame Wilson Fights Scandal With 'Fair Game'
He drank, womanized and wasted money.
After reading the letter, he threw it in the waste - paper basket.
Recycling the waste from our increased consumption is better than burning it.
When you have succeeded in eliminating this medicare waste without reducing benefits and quality of care and the money is "in the bank", then let's see how many new people can have all there medical expenses covered, less individual premiums, deductibles and co-pays if any. Obama: Health-care reform will not increase deficit
Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths.
The river was contaminated with waste.
According to Hannah, identifying the energy wasters in your home can have a direct effect on our environment as well as saving you money.
We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering. The Sun
The city council has to find a better way of dealing with domestic waste. One answer is to burn it.
Recycling also helps control environmental pollution by reducing the need for waste dumps.
The convention established procedures for the transport of toxic waste.
If you put your waste down the disposal, it flows, along with household sewage, to a plant where it gets separated into thick sludge and treated wastewater.
A writing teacher of mine used the term furniture moving to refer to wasted prose.
Instead of looking at this issue for what it is, we get a petty post about $2-$3 million in "wasted" money. Sound Politics: Your tax dollars at work
The toro, for me, was wasted a little on the grill, but all sorts of vegetable things did well. Times, Sunday Times
As if in confirmation, a line appears along the featureless wastes ahead. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The high concentration organic wastewater from diclofenac sodium production process was treated by precipitation - adsorption technology.
“His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe. Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing
Facilities should use only the following weight conversion factors to record and report on all unweighed waste that enters or leaves the facility.
The minister has warned that dumpers and landowners face severe sanctions under the Waste Management Act 1996.
So millions more get wasted. Times, Sunday Times
We were unwilling to waste energy conquering the high peak.
MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless; Rob Roy
The leakage current wastes power, draining the battery used by mobile devices.
Firstly, this little episode exposes pre-nuptial contracts in this country to be the complete waste of paper they are.
I thought there were three kinds of people you Aiel let come out here in the Waste; peddlers, gleemen, and the Traveling People. The Shadow Rising
His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
There are no such problems here; from the film's slam-bang opening, to its brilliant closing moments, there's not a wasted shot or scene.
They already have responsibility for key decisions about transport, waste, energy, housing and other development.
The West London Waste Authority must look to more sustainable ways of dealing with residual waste.
Innkeepers complained of unlet rooms, and caterers of wasted supplies.
A familiar sight, almost opposite Bedford Hospital, is the Britannia Works archway, the area behind which has been wasteland for at least ten years.
He really is one of those guys who is wasted at his current job.
Castoffs such Mullock, waste water and exhaust gas produced by coal mining pollute environment , destroy zoology and lose economy.
Second, don't splurge money on a wasteful stimulus package. Times, Sunday Times
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
What tugs at Carlyon's heartstrings is the fate of the soldiers, the boys from the outback and the small towns who dreamed of glory but found only death and disaster in the barren wastes of Gallipoli.
Gerhardt, after all, was trained -- trained to think and expound with minimum waste of words, fast and in hazardous circumstances. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The Jiading factory will be able to burn at 850 degrees centigrade, hot enough to destroy dioxin, a poisonous chemical compound found in some waste, said the engineer on that project.
Never bite on such questions because they'll lead you into a trackless wasteland and you'll never get out of it.
The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste. Times, Sunday Times
Most carbohydrates appear to be wasted through excretion or stored as fat.
In my view it was a waste of time.
The redundancy of skilled and experienced workers is a terrible waste and a clear sign of an unhealthy economy.
Many materials are already in use or in development, including wood waste, sewage cake, agricultural by-products and waste from the food processing industry.
Â Are we too busy in our everyday lives to now just trying to meet what we want on a computer so we don't have to waste our prescious time? Crystal Smith: How Would You Find Your Mate?
It is looking at a faster turnaround of vehicles unloading waste and collections of items to be recycled.
The island will not be ground down so much as wasted away. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Thirty percent of rough amber is waste, but some waste amber pieces were used to make pressed amber in the Russian factory.
Toxic waste could endanger lives and poison fish.
However, when an emergency occurs, the curled varieties will be found suitable for cooking, and the broad-leaved for salading, and therefore there need be no waste where one sort predominates. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
Still, no participant publicly called the daylong exercise a waste of time. Examiner California Headlines
In a wonderfully economic circle, the hemp is used to mop up pig waste, then the crop is harvested and fed to the pigs.
Dude is a flake—no team should waste their time (or roster spot) on a quitter.
The integrated hydrolytic acidification - biological aerobic filter was used to treat oil - refining wastewater.
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
It seems a shame to waste this good food.
You can also toss nonanimal food waste on the pile, but you will need to turn it more frequently with a shovel, pitchfork, or specialized tool to prevent odors that will attract vermin—and annoy you and the neighbors. Tip of the day: Compost your leaves this fall
Those were two of the things Aiel did to those who came into the Waste uninvited; only gleemen, peddlers, and Tinkers had safe passage, though Aiel avoided the Tinkers as if they carried fever. The Fires of Heaven
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
The Abanaki Model 8 belt skimmer may be part of an emergency oil spill system, in which wastewater flows though a coalescer tank, is skimmed, and then passes though filters. Business Wire Travel News
Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.
For example, with this dream, I scrawled, "Bill Shunn waste time plastic toy platen. Dreaming of Bill Shunn and the Plastic Typewriter
Belief in malleable intelligence is no free lunch - it could easily lead students to waste years of their lives trying and failing. You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
And wastewater left over after the methane is extracted, greatly deodorized, is used for fertilizing the farm's fields.
Bentonite, which was modified by anion - cation surface - active agent , is succeeded in applying to organic wastewater treatment.
This is a wasteful process causing a net loss of nitrogen to the animal and pollution of the environment.
Varieties like jungle jalebi and jatropha are ideal for wastelands while sadabhar, saijjan, kadambh, maulshree and sweet neem all germinate on their own and don't need maintenance. "
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
This mentality is not endemic to Taiwan, of course; people in America, for example, don't want a nuclear waste dump near them either.
And with the way humans interact with that, so she took courses in human waste and garbology. Something Unpredictable
They are separated by panels of chain fencing and the space between dotted with waste bins and park benches.
Academics were wasters and parasites back then too.
Quite simply it is a waste of time for the buyer, seller and agent, and makes people feel duped and angry. The Sun
You are encouraged to help identify flotsam sources, get involved in local beach clean-ups and campaign for responsible disposal of waste by marine industries.
The ability to separate out reusable elements from other waste is crucial.
Pushing down those already beneath you in the ranks is simply a waste of effort.
They say youth is wasted on the young and experience on the retired.
Of course, using that to 'remarket' to users who leave the site will drive conversion with little waste and will focus on the right folks from the sales funnel. Technology and Creativity in Digital Marketing: Better Together - Michael Kassan - MediaBizBloggers
But then I needed their attentiveness, as I was collapsed and semi-conscious at the top of a frozen wasteland, the nearest settlement being miles down the mountain.
Or dumping enough toxic plastic waste into the ocean that it forms huge islands of yuck as far as the eye can see so Yuppies can drink pints of filtered tap water in throw-away bottles just to prove how Yuppie-fied they are. Channeling Religious Impulses
‘I wasn't looked upon as being a layabout or a waster,’ he said.
Waste was hauled by truck to various designated dumps, and the ore was to be stockpiled or to be directly crushed, screened, and agglomerated.
This budget abandons all hope of reforming wasteful military procurement and distorts America's priorities at home and abroad.
Treaty signatories also undertake not to dump or allow other states to dump radioactive materials or wastes in the zone of coverage.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
We may now return to the Calle Pureza, and the waster that is a variant of Type II, that is to say with the diamond and feathers, but with a plant motif in the center.
He hated waste and ostentatious consumption, and the car he developed at Ford, the Falcon, reflected his twin commitments to economy and safety.
It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources. Times, Sunday Times
He said that resources were being wasted as a result with different research programmes heading up blind alleys one after each other. Times, Sunday Times
It will see standard grey household waste bins being emptied fortnightly instead of weekly, while new green wheeled bins for garden waste are collected on alternate weeks from 60,000 homes in the city.
The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.
It is such a pity that their time and our taxes are being wasted on something which has the majority of our citizens shrugging their shoulder.
He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Mamelodi; to improve on the provision of services such as sewerage and waste removal, as well as water reticulation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Likewise, the disorganization of relief operations is a waste of precious resources.
The highly concentrated cosmetic wastewater can be treated by anaerobic - contacting oxidation - ozone - biological aerated filter ( BAF ).
He scoffed: 'It seems a ludicrous waste of money. The Sun
Stamp out the scones with as little waste as possible; the first scones will be lighter than the second rolling. Times, Sunday Times
The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein…
Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers, and factories that heedlessly dump wastewater have degraded China's water supplies to the extent that half the nation's rivers and lakes are severely polluted.
Give us a wheelie bin for the recycling waste and if it takes a month for some to fill it, then at least it will be in a secure container with a lid to secure the odours.
Britain produces 20 million tonnes of household waste each year.
This is the compost made by councils from the contents of your kitchen and garden waste bins, which you then buy back in a tidy circle. Times, Sunday Times
There is widespread concern among scientists about the safety of storing nuclear waste underground.
Jerky recipe sounds great. someone just gave me some deer peperoni and they must have flubbed somewhere because it was so salty, even after cooking some with cabbage, I threw the rest away. what a waste of good meat. gotta have jerky for the kids, young and old Deer Candy: Phil Bourjaily's Favorite Venison Jerky Recipe
It makes me really mad when people waste food.
In his evidence, he said that if the acquisition was blocked, it would have been a waste of a ‘tremendous amount of time and energy’.
Nuclear power produces abundant power from small amounts of material, at small external costs, even when one accounts for the vanishingly small probability of accidents and the cost of waste disposal.
The sculpture was created from technology waste collected from Chinese scrapyards.
She knew he smoked in the waste area where the youths hung out and when he came home his clothes reeked of the weed.
The shopping mall opens and the nearby high street is turned instantly into a wasteland of building societies and vomit. Times, Sunday Times
These pipes carry waste water into the river
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.
At the very least, this flaw wastes huge sums of taxpayers ' money and police officers' time.
Indeed, the evaluation site's old wastewater lagoon was converted into clean, aerated water.
The fire occurred at approx. 2 o'clock, when a spark from a fire disposing of waste materials ignited a number of buckets containing paint thinner.
At least a quarter -- nearly R1-billion -- of claims received could have been wasted by continued fraud and overutilisation of medical aid facilities, the investigation revealed. ANC Daily News Briefing
German law forbids the dumping of hazardous waste on German soil.
The city was burnt to a desolate waste.

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