Talk:Waste
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I have removed the following passage from the introduction. These statements are not wholely correct and are relative:
"Although these words are often used as synonyms in colloquial American English, they are not:
- waste is unusable material produced by a manufacturing process;
- rubbish is useless or rejected material;
- trash is material that is worth nothing;
- garbage is food waste;
- junk is discarded material which may be used again."
--Alex 14:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thoughts on waste definition
Waste is itself a human concept that has changed over time. In nature everything is reused or benign. Over time many problematic forms of waste such as Coal_tar and used Cooking_oil have become valued materials, and there is increasing adoption of closed loop production systems. -- M0llusk 18:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
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No organism on the Earth is 100% efficient. As it consumes resources, there is a certain amount of waste. Without the waste of our ancestors, we would not know so much about how they lived and what they ate. Any archaeologist will be happy to find an antiquity waste dump. [1]
- Perhaps somebody can decide what to do with it? - Mike Rosoft 11:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I think this is of use to the article cultural dynamics section but needs to be reworded. --Alex 12:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cultural dynamics
Archaeologists often use ancient spoil heaps and waste dumps as a source of information about the past. Elements that are discarded by a society are indicative of a number of different cultural dynamics such as what food was being consumed at the time and how prosperous a community was. Waste, www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2, Retrieved 13.12.06
[edit] Biological production of waste
Organisms must take in energy and nutrients in order to survive. Through their metabolism by-products are created which are excreted from the body as waste.