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“ waste is waste only if we waste it.”

Wastage is not just about food waste. It also includes the waste of water, resources, energy, time, money, and talent.

Wastage is a term that resonates across various fields, from business to environmental science.It embodies the loss of resources be it materials ,energy, or even human potential. When we think about wastage, we often picture overflowing landfills or wasted food at restaurants. But there's so much more beneath the surface.

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Waste: I believe waste manifests in two dimensions—one is spiritual waste, which involves excessive self-depletion; the other is material waste, which entails excessive consumption.

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When value and meaning disappear, existence itself can become waste — whether people, emotions, or objects.

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Waste is created by the one who have the choice. The outcome is not only by one's force but all goes together, like a revolution to the society.

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To me, waste means things you don’t use up yourself, you just throw them away. They stay on Earth forever and nobody uses them again!

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Capitalism attracts consumers to shop through marketing strategies, and most of these behaviors are impulse purchases, thus creating a lot of waste.

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In Jakarta article, many people see waste as something no longer valuable$$. Economic factors and policies shape this view. But I believe value depends on how you see it and whether it improves life. So anything can be useful if using it right or fulfill your lifestyle.

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Under capitalism, we have the right to choose whether goods are valuable to us. Most of the time, we just want rather than need them.

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When waste pollutes the environment, the waste is not just limited to one or two items, but spreads outward and affects others.

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‘Cognitive waste is not the result of individual weakness of will, but rather the operation of structural forces within the attention economy.’