Waste
(1) Material available for use by another part of the system, or by a different system in a closed-loop arrangement.
(2) Material discarded by a system as a means of preventing surplus which could produce unwanted growth (Intentional Waste).
(3) Material abandoned and made unavailable to the system (and to its neighbours and wider ecological setting), which will in due course destroy it. The product of an open-loop arrangement formed by excessive scale.
Related entries:
Needs and Wants, Lean Materials, Pollution, Sorting Problem.
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