food waste
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2.7
- noun
- /fuːd weɪst/
- Composting gives customers a way to lower their disposal costs since food waste is the heaviest material they're getting rid of.
- food waste recycling
- tons of food waste
- compost food waste
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Watch on YouTubeJoining me in transforming how we manage our food waste with Lomi.
- Joining me in transforming how we manage our food waste with Lomi.
- But, but food waste is actually a much larger, broader issue.
- We have partnered up with really cool companies to help eliminate food waste and support local farmers.
- So the greatest way to reduce food waste is to actually just eat the food that you're buying.
- Instead, I am turning our food waste into nutrient rich dirt that I can feed to my plants.
- And it brings me on to my next advice for avoiding food waste, and that is to use up your leftovers.
- And I feel like avoiding, you know, meat and cheese could help cut down on food waste.
- Instead, I now turn my food waste into nutrient rich dirt that I can feed to my plants.
- So that's sort of an idea of what food waste looks like.
- So it's very counterintuitive, certainly in the area of food waste.
Examples
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We have partnered up with really cool companies to help eliminate food waste and support local farmers.
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The local elementary school began a food waste recycling service with Unisyn and used the compost in their garden.
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But, but food waste is actually a much larger, broader issue.
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But what you do is you put your food waste and it has a list of acceptable food waste.
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By including paper, yard materials, and food waste, between 40 to 50 percent of municipal solid waste is reduced.
Academic text (1995) -
So the greatest way to reduce food waste is to actually just eat the food that you're buying.
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Instead, I am turning our food waste into nutrient rich dirt that I can feed to my plants.
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And it brings me on to my next advice for avoiding food waste, and that is to use up your leftovers.
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To meet the state's 50 percent recycling goal, food waste recovery is starting to occur in California municipalities.
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The city launched a campaign to raise awareness about food waste and how to reduce it at home.
Synonyms
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Things people throw away because they are unwanted
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Unwanted food and other waste from a home or kitchen that you throw away
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Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
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Food remaining after a meal that you save to eat later
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1.6
Not used or eaten after the rest, often food
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Small pieces of food left over after a meal
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Things people throw away because they are not wanted
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Food waste and scraps that you throw away
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A thing made and thrown away by a factory, machine, or body
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A small amount of leftover food from a meal that is given to animals or thrown away
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Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
Antonyms
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'food' (substance consumed) + 'waste' (refuse/discarded material) straightforwardly yields 'food that is discarded'. This noun-noun combination follows a transparent compounding pattern common across languages and everyday usage, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Food waste is a plain phrase that pictures edible food turning into waste when it is thrown away or left unused in homes, shops, or kitchens, so it means 'food that is thrown away'.