For a while now I have been mulling over the idea of what waste is. It seems there are two kinds of waste - waste as a by product of manufacture: offcuts, etc. and waste as the manufactured product itself, once it has become obsolete.
However to better understand the concept of waste, I felt a few simple dictionary definitions would help:
1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no
avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
2. to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity.
3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore.
4. to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war.
These definitions act as a harrowing explanation of our consumption based culture today: "to consume uselessly, to destroy gradually".
One definition that I feel is most important is: "to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity". Many of my ideas have focused around the concept of picking up materials or objects from the waste stream and putting them to good use, i.e. not wasting an opportunity.
From initial secondary research I have found that this concept is not new and some very publicised designers have answered this call.
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