How to Use waste product in a Sentence

waste product

noun
  • One of the byproducts of burning protein is a waste product called urea.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Burn it with oxygen, and its only waste product is water.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
  • In the past, rock quarries would didn't have much use for the basalt rock dust that was a waste product of their mining process.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This waste product is produced by the muscles and healthy kidneys filter it out.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The second test is a blood test to measure for a waste product called creatinine.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The only waste product is water vapor.
    — Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The new pig kidney is making urine as well as creatinine, a waste product.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Creatinine is a waste product that is caused by the breakdown of creatine.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In the process, the mitochondria spit out a waste product, called reactive oxygen species.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
  • It is considered a waste product and is typically excreted from the body through urine.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
  • In order to grow, plants absorb carbon dioxide, use it to build their tissues, and release oxygen as a waste product.
    — Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
  • Your muscles produce lactic acid, a waste product of your cells turning carbs into energy.
    — Lauren Del Turco, Health, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Now, researchers are finally finding ways to rescue this abundant waste product.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
  • Creatine breaks down to form creatinine, a waste product excreted in the urine.
    — Jennifer Lefton, Ms, Rd/n, Cnsc, Fand, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Creatine breaks down to form creatinine, a waste product excreted in the urine.
    — Mary Choy, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Salt slag is a waste product normally headed to landfills after the aluminum recycling process.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Insect pests of camellias include tea scales and aphids, both of which produce a waste product called honeydew that encourages sooty mold on the foliage.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Wood-eaters use some of the carbon for energy, expelling carbon dioxide—and farting methane, in the case of termites—as a waste product.
    — Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The team essentially replaced fly ash – a waste product from coal combustion – in creating geopolymer paste which acts as a binder in concrete.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • For example, the waste product from one company can become useful feedstock for another.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Creatinine is a waste product that is removed by the kidneys, so when kidney function drops, creatinine levels go up.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Interest in hydrogen as a fuel that produces only water as a waste product when consumed in a fuel cell appears to be booming around the world.
    — Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Because stormwater is still erroneously classified as a waste product, its management is handled by the same department that picks up the trash.
    — Curbed, 1 Feb. 2023
  • This waste product is highly toxic because of its high alkalinity and heavy metal concentration.
    — New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The research highlights a low-cost, sustainable approach that turns a common waste product into a valuable environmental tool.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • These are microscopic vessels where oxygen and nutrients leave the bloodstream to feed the tissues, and carbon dioxide (a metabolic waste product) moves in.
    — Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, protein in your urine, which is also called proteinuria, is a waste product that your kidneys normally get rid of.
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • New materials Partanna uses a combination of brine and a steelmaking waste product called slag to make its cement blocks.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Sulphur is much more readily abundant as a waste product and could be sourced in local markets unlike some of those other materials, according to the companies.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023

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