waste product

noun

Origin of waste product

First recorded in 1930–35

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Building bulk tissue using a bio-printer isn’t that tough, but creating the fine network of blood vessels that ferry nutrients and waste products in and out of cells is much harder.
An Israeli Startup Is 3D Printing Cultured Ribeye Steaks | Edd Gent | February 17, 2021 | Singularity Hub
Those credits would give qualifying companies $20 per ton of sequestered solid carbon — the exact waste product from C-Zero’s process.
A startup using a new tech to make hydrogen extracts cash from Bill Gates’ climate tech fund | Jonathan Shieber | February 9, 2021 | TechCrunch
I will eat calves’ liver, which I love, in the United States because it’s a waste product.
The Downside of Disgust (Ep. 448) | Stephen J. Dubner | January 21, 2021 | Freakonomics
That means it requires oxygen and makes carbon dioxide as a waste product.
Scientists Say: Respiration | Bethany Brookshire | January 11, 2021 | Science News For Students
Your local independent roaster is probably buying big bags of raw coffee from Asia, South America, or Africa, and the burlap bags it comes in—produced by the millions each year—are mostly a waste product.
Five cool ways to upcycle old coffee sacks | Harry Guinness | August 27, 2020 | Popular-Science

And if you did the same thing with waste product from homes, factories, and offices it could make a massive difference.
Branson Blasts Off | Matthew Dakotah | September 1, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
You take the waste product in fields, turn it into charcoal and plow it back into the fields again.
Branson Blasts Off | Matthew Dakotah | September 1, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
But when proteins are burned, another waste product containing nitrogen is formed.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross | John Huston Finley
In the early days of gas manufacture this black, viscid, unsavoury substance was in every sense a waste product.
Coal | Raphael Meldola
The support that renders the industrial home possible is the waste product of the city.
The Social Work of the Salvation Army | Edwin Gifford Lamb

waste product

An unusable or unwanted substance or material produced during or as a result of a process, such as metabolism or manufacturing.

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