waste

In August, the government launched a national action plan to tackle waste crime, which it estimates costs the country more than £1bn every year.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“That’s not a defense, but the reality is some jurors won’t want to convict because they feel sympathy to the defendant or they feel this is a waste of government resources.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In November 2020, Indian government investigators found hidden bore holes where the operator of the United Marine Products fishmeal plant in Goa had been covertly disposing of toxic waste, thereby contaminating groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"You know how you really feel / You don't have to waste your life," she sings, as the wedding band stutters to an uncertain halt.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

And so it was she found herself in the library, with her new fountain pen close at hand and no time to waste.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

But the Independent was cooler on the launch episode as a whole, saying the show "wastes Nigella's prodigious charms and misses chance for a true revamp".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

It just wastes the strategy — and your money.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

“We believe Meta’s strategy diffusion wastes shareholder capital,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

It does point out that “very little is known about the history of this deep-ocean disposal, the nature of the wastes, or waste sources.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

And every week we waste, more of my lung function wastes away too.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

He worked out that "we spent 14 to 15 hours of that holiday on a coach trip, plus time wasted waiting for coaches".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Pages had wasted the Dodgers’ second challenge on a clear strike moments earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The organisation says that warm and dry weather has produced "ideal conditions" for the bugs, with as much as 30% of the UK crop between now and the end of October set to be wasted.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

I surprised myself with the thought that Samir had once again wasted our merchandise.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Ellison is wasting no time putting his stamp on the combined company and recruiting help to operate it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

There's just no point in me travelling, wasting my time whilst I'm getting booed.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Financial planners will typically advise customers to keep their finances simple, which would usually include avoiding wasting time on gimmicks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife