All related terms of 'wastes'

If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary , or is unlikely to succeed .

vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people

bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings , cheese rind , and scraps from people's plates

waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines

If someone wastes away , they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly.

refuse cotton yarn , esp when used as a cleaning material

waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment

waste that may be harmful to health or the environment

bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings , cheese rind , and scraps from people's plates

→ another name for radioactive waste

waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines

waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea

any waste material containing radionuclides

radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated

radioactive waste material, such as reactor and processing-plant components, that is solidified before being mixed with concrete and stored in steel drums in deep mines or beneath the seabed in concrete chambers