waste; refuse; discarded items
Refers to things that are no longer useful and have been thrown away or are considered worthless. Often used in contexts like recycling, disposal, or figurative expressions about useless things.
廃物をリサイクルする取り組みが進んでいる。
Efforts to recycle waste materials are advancing.
He treated the old machine as if it were trash.
waste products; waste matter
utilization of waste materials; recycling
Compound of 廃 (hai, 'discard, abolish') and 物 (butsu, 'thing'). The kanji combination directly conveys 'discarded thing'.