- waste product
-
1. material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.2. feces, urine, and other material excreted in the life process.[1930-35]
* * *
Universalium. 2010.
waste product
Look at other dictionaries:
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 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 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 product — noun (C) something useless, such as ash or gas, that is produced in a process that produces something useful: The waste products of combustion are fed into the car s exhaust … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
waste product — noun a) an unwanted material produced during some manufacturing process, especially radioactive material from nuclear reactors b) the unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces … Wiktionary
waste product — /ˈweɪst ˌprɒdʌkt/ (say wayst .produkt) noun material produced in a process, as manufacture, and discarded as useless when the process is completed …
Cellular waste product — Cellular waste products are formed as a byproduct of cellular respiration, a series of processes and reactions that generate energy for the cell, in the form of ATP. Two examples of cellular respiration creating cellular waste products are… … Wikipedia
Waste minimisation — is the process and the policy of reducing the amount of waste produced by a person or a society. It is part of the wider aim of waste reduction which is often described as a component of the waste hierarchy. In the waste hierarchy, the most… … Wikipedia
Waste exchange — is where the waste product of one process become the raw materials for a second process. This is similar to using pre consumer material in a product. This represents a way of reducing waste disposal through reuse volumes for those wastes which… … Wikipedia
waste — [wāst] vt. wasted, wasting [ME wasten < NormFr waster < L vastare, to lay waste, devastate (< vastus: see VAST): infl. by Gmc * wostjan > OHG wuosten] 1. to destroy; devastate; ruin 2. to wear away; consume gradually; use up 3. to… … English World dictionary
