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go to waste

  1. Fail to be used or taken advantage of. For example, I hate to see such talent go to waste, or We bought so much food that some will be going to waste. [c. 1500]



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The Bay Area’s White Pony Express salvages tons of food that would otherwise go to waste and uses it to feed the needy.

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They have also pledged £13m to a dozen food charities across England to "fight food poverty", by redistributing food from farms which might otherwise go to waste.

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It let Ohtani’s late-game heroics go to waste.

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Then they let it go to waste in a five-run eighth inning.

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"People in my village use the petals of lotus flowers for religious offerings. But their stems often go to waste and that's what I wanted to change and thought of doing something sustainable," she says.

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