waste product
noun
: useless material that is produced when making something else
a hazardous waste product
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In order to grow, plants absorb carbon dioxide, use it to build their tissues, and release oxygen as a waste product.
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Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
Salt slag is a waste product normally headed to landfills after the aluminum recycling process.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
Over the past six years, energy nationalist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has prioritized CFE, which largely burns fuel oil, a residual waste product Pemex refineries are producing, to generate electricity.
—Stefanie Eschenbacher, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
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Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
Salt slag is a waste product normally headed to landfills after the aluminum recycling process.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
Over the past six years, energy nationalist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has prioritized CFE, which largely burns fuel oil, a residual waste product Pemex refineries are producing, to generate electricity.
—Stefanie Eschenbacher, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
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“Waste product.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waste%20product. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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