The phrase "a dangerous waste of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not only wasteful but also poses a risk or threat in some way.
Example: "Investing in outdated technology is a dangerous waste of resources that could be better allocated elsewhere."
Alternatives: "a perilous misuse of" or "a risky squandering of".
It is the cornerstone of his argument that our obsession with food is a dangerous waste of our energies.
After golfers have learned how to putt — once they have memorized the necessary movements — analyzing the stroke is a dangerous waste of time.
After golfers have learned how to putt once they have memorized the necessary movements analyzing the stroke is a dangerous waste of time.
Critics attacked the project as a dangerous waste of money that would undermine hundreds of years of civil rights and warned that targeting foreign residents could lead to discrimination and abuse.
But that means taking a path Mr. Cheney and other administration hawks consider a dangerous waste of time: returning to the United Nations for approval of a quick, highly invasive inspection, with the understanding that further resistance to inspections would provide the justification for an immediate, overwhelming military response.
The vice president's position that going through the United Nations for further inspections of suspected weapons sites is a dangerous waste of time seemed to contrast with General Powell's public insistence that the United States needs to do so to build an international consensus.
As an elementary school principal, she stood up for the health of her students by opposing the construction of an environmentally dangerous waste facility being built across the street from her school.
They are very expensive and they leave a legacy of dangerous waste.
"While thorium partially addresses some of the downsides of current commercial reactors based on uranium fuel," Jan Beranek, nuclear energy project leader of Greenpeace International, said in an e-mail message from Amsterdam, "from what we know it still has significant issues related to fuel mining and fabrication, reactor safety, production of dangerous waste, and hazards of proliferation".
Instead of dangerous waste, we found schools of flopping fish in the lower levels of most buildings.
"The local authorities have just refused Norcem use of that local harbour and mine site for the disposal of dangerous waste, because it is situated less than 1,000m away from a population of 2,500 people," Dalland said.
