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go to waste
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]
Example Sentences
The Bay Area’s White Pony Express salvages tons of food that would otherwise go to waste and uses it to feed the needy.
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.
It let Ohtani’s late-game heroics go to waste.
Then they let it go to waste in a five-run eighth inning.
"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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