Concept in Definition ABC

A waste He is he wrong exploitation that is made of something or someone. That is, you have something, a machine that is not exploited as it should to perform at its maximum and therefore it is worked at the minimum level, wasting its capacity, or failing that, you have an employee who has a lot of knowledge on a subject and sends him to do something totally different for which he is better prepared.

“The race was an absolute waste for me, I spent a fortune and learned nothing of what I was looking for when I signed up. It is a waste to have Juan in the cleaning area when he turns out to be so good at electronics, since he knows a lot about the subject.”

Understood as Waste

On the other hand, a waste is also that residue or waste of something, more popularly known as garbage. That is to say, the remains of something, of a meal, of an item, which cannot be used in any way and therefore there is nothing left but to throw them into a basket.

We usually collect waste in a bag located in the kitchen, inside a container for this purpose, popularly known as garbage can, that we take out daily if we live in a house, or that we deposit in a special cubicle in the buildings of apartments so that in the latter it is collected by the person in charge of the building and deposited in the corresponding place from where the collectors withdraw.

For its part, a food waste it is that substance edible, either raw or cooked, that is discarded or expected to be discarded during preparation.

Recycling

Some waste can be used, such is the case of food scraps that are in good condition. state and not decomposed, or failing that they can be recycled as occurs with paper, paperboard; and there are also other wastes that cannot have any use and these are just consecrated as garbage.

Now, we must also say that what is residual for one person may not be so for another. Let's think about the food, there are many people without food needs who throw away part of the plate of food that they made because they are not so hungry, meanwhile, for a person who is food needs because you do not have the money to meet this need, those leftovers from a food plate that someone throws into a trash can can be of enormous use to survive.

Unfortunately, it is a reality of many people who are destitute to go through the trash cans. of garbage from cities to recover food that others throw away and thus consume it for food.

Moreover, it is also a scene highly visible in many countries with severe health problems poverty appreciate people who go through the trash for papers, cardboard, and other materials that they then resell for a living.

Today's world, absolutely co-opted by consumerism, generates a huge amount of garbage every day.

Meanwhile, a expression widely used in the language current and containing the term turns out to be have no waste; such a phrase allows to refer that something is very useful or totally usable. “His new book it has no waste”; meanwhile, the job of the aforementioned phrase with a ironic sense to refer that what is mentioned could not be worse. “The party has not been wasted, the only thing missing was that the groom regretted having married.”