Marie Kondo

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

Japanese Businesswoman

Steve Wynn

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

American Businessman

Donella Meadows

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

American Environmentalist

Nina Fedoroff

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

American Scientist

Patrick deWitt

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

Canadian Novelist

Yogi Adityanath

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.

Indian Politician

David Chang

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

American Chef

Konnie Huq

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.

British Celebrity

Nicholas Stern

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

English Economist

Tom Graves

If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.

American Politician

Describes actions or habits negatively, suggesting they could be avoided or reduced.

Negative Connotation

Often used regarding resources like water, energy, and food, especially in environmental discussions.

Environmental Context

Can evoke feelings of guilt or criticism, used to persuade people to change behaviors.

Emotional Impact

 spirituality, gender roles, sustainability -- all of that stuff is this really important education that we need to learn, you know. So let's just break down some foods real quick. Proteins are easy. We learn about how natives were able to use every single part of a bison. But that's just because we didn't have the privilege to be wasteful.

Sean Sherman: Why aren't...

 with restrictions on certain boats and equipment. Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves. There's also a role for consumer awareness and boycotts to reduce wasteful practices, like shark finning,

Will the ocean ever run...

 towards a rediscovery of collective good. I'm on a mission to make sharing cool. I'm on a mission to make sharing hip. Because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business, help us leapfrog over wasteful forms of hyper-consumption

Rachel Botsman: The case...

 were designed to work and why they're so wasteful. 95% of the light they emit is invisible to our eyes. It's wasted as heat. Earth's infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren't greenhouse gas molecules in our atmophere.

How quantum mechanics...

 specific events to climate change but an increase in extreme events life draft is what we are expecting from climate change a lot of the blame made by politicians is to the public saying that their wasteful of resources it's a shame

How Cape Town's...

 embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, because the worst that you can say about it is that it's preposterously wasteful. It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel,

Why the universe seems...

 when we look back on today and on how we raise and slaughter billions of animals to make our hamburgers and our handbags, we'll see this as being wasteful and indeed crazy. Did you know that today we maintain

Leather and meat without...

 These electricity-to-light chips allow for wasteful electrical cables in data centers to be swapped out for power-efficient fiber. Photonic chips can help break open wireless bandwidth limitations, too.

The hidden network that...

 to the two hours of the eliza test it's portable and more sustainable using just filter paper photo paper exact amounts of reagents and a little bit of water as compared to the plastics and wasteful

A low-cost, reliable...

 afford to be wasteful a fact which other dinosaurs take full advantage of rugops an eight meter carnivore anywhere else it might dominate

Wasteful

Using or spending too much of something when less could be used or spent.

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Negative Connotation

Environmental Context

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