waste
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Johnson points out the new markings and road surfaces around us, claiming to have found the money from "waste" under the last administration, enabling him to increase the budget from £41,000 to £82,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
When disposable vape cartridges are put in garbage or recycling bins, they can be crushed by garbage trucks and sorting equipment at waste facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Four men have so far been arrested in connection with the illegal waste tip at Kidlington.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
They also are a growing cause of fires in waste facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Please do. I really can’t waste time here in Bletchley.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
It just wastes the strategy — and your money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 1958, working-class voters and Democrats were within 5 points of each other on whether government wastes a lot of tax money.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
His 13 league goals for Brighton last season came from 12.5 expected goals, a steady return that reflects a striker who finishes at expectation and rarely wastes chances.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
In 2015, a battery recycling plant that had been operating in Vernon for decades had to close down and pay $50 million toward cleaning up its hazardous wastes such as lead dust, cadmium and arsenic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The tardy bell rings, and Ms. Rucker wastes no time announcing that there’ll be a test on Friday.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
In effect, the move to Villa wasted a season of Elliott's career even if he was adamant that it was a "learning curve" in a year where Villa won the Europa League.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“She told me she had completely cut off her mom,” says Sherlock, 29, a certified public accountant in Lakeville, Minn. “And that she had wasted all of her 30s on a man.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“They’re more aware of the non-alcoholic options, so it’s not so much the getting wasted, but it’s more just having fun, not necessarily boozy fun. They’re just doing it for themselves.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Google’s top researchers also wasted resources competing against each other.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was tiny, and withered, and ancient, wasted by his century in the dark.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
While he blogged about students wasting time watching Netflix, he found something else to binge that would end up being far more important to his career: effective altruism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Although his classmates had been using their phones to get information for their studies, they were also wasting time on social media.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"There's a hosepipe ban and we are wasting water and it's causing a huge puddle in the street that cars splash through," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I still said, ‘I already turned it down so you’re wasting your time.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“We’re not wasting water on internal toilets, so that’s where all business is done.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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