waste

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waste

Summary

waste ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,130 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • waste is a type of material[2].
  • waste is a type of economic bad[3].
  • waste is a type of energy source[4].
  • waste is used for recycling[5].
  • waste's Commons category is recorded as Waste[6].
  • waste's said to be the same as is recorded as trinket[7].
  • waste's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Waste[8].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[12].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • waste's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[14].
  • waste's topic has template is recorded as Template:Waste[15].
  • waste's used by is recorded as sorter labourer[16].
  • waste's used by is recorded as recycling worker[17].
  • waste's has effect is recorded as air pollution[18].
  • waste's has effect is recorded as marine debris[19].
  • waste's different from is recorded as scrap[20].
  • waste's has list is recorded as list of waste types[21].
  • waste's hashtag is recorded as garbage[22].
  • waste's studied by is recorded as garbology[23].
  • waste's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[24].
  • waste's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002264[25].
  • waste's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q22828734[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include material[2], economic bad[3], and energy source[4].

Use and Application

waste is used for recycling[5]. Recorded used by include sorter labourer[16] and recycling worker[17].

Influence

Things named for waste include Eurotrash[27], a pejorative[28].

Why It Matters

waste ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,130 views/month).[1] waste has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] waste is known by 130 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for waste include Eurotrash[27], a pejorative[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → jate
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14864]]: jate, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789688721844"
  2. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → garbage
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: garbage, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929436|garbage (#289929436)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Gabriel Gonzáles Videla
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  4. 7w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19416
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C19416, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  5. 13w ago · AnnaMehta · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → 545b786d-da8c-4c0a-93a0-73927fe3f2f4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: 545b786d-da8c-4c0a-93a0-73927fe3f2f4, Adding BBC Things ID"
  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0375867-odpad
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0375867-odpad, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  7. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Topic has template → Template:Waste
    Aliases → —
    Union of → list of values as qualifiers
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2360, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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