find a use

After all, it’s not easy to find a use for an old Walmart that doesn’t involve grocery or retail.

The groups said their hope was to “work with the community and the council office to eventually find a use for the property consistent with Catholic Charities’ mission, such as community food service, an emergency shelter, transitional youth housing, before and after school care, and older adult services.”

Industry has been trying to find a use for materials like fly ash that predominantly end up in landfills, she explains.

It was innovative at the time for being cooked in its own can, and it helped the company find a use for otherwise unpopular pork shoulder.

To find a use or place for it, to regift or dispose of it responsibly, to show somewhat unfelt gratitude for it, to tamp down the guilt of costing someone money and being a helpless party to natural resource depletion.