The phrase "arid waste" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dry, barren area that lacks vegetation or water, often in a poetic or descriptive context.
Example: "The explorers trudged through the arid waste, searching for any sign of life in the desolate landscape."
Alternatives: "barren land" or "dry expanse".
All he sees around him is an arid waste.
CALLED the seventh-poorest country by the World Bank, Mali is a landlocked arid waste on the edge of the Sahara desert.
His participation in history secured the position of Greece as the only Balkan state among the winners of the cold war.CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOSNaperville, IllinoisMuch maligned MaliSIR You characterise Mali ("A day for complaints", July 10th) as a "landlocked arid waste on the edge of the Sahara desert".
Three months after an earthquake destroyed much of the Haitian capital, a line of buses drove north into an arid waste of chalky dust.
After thundering across China, through Xi'an, across a corner of the Gobi Desert and skirting the vast arid wastes of the Taklamakan Desert, where temperatures can hit 120 degrees, the train simply sat.
"It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
Their theory has been far more mundane - the legion was, in fact, a victim of strategic transfer, swapping the cold expanse of northern England, for arid wastes in the Middle East.
This is a concern in aquatic environments, where anthropogenic activities can release large quantities of Se, and include agricultural runoff of irrigation waters in arid regions; waste rock from coal, phosphate, and uranium mining; and combustion waste from coal burning power plants.
I would have liked to hear her comments on the arid and sumptuous wastes of the New Jersey shopping mall.
Monolithic cover is increasingly considered for use at landfills of solid wastes in arid and semi-arid areas.
It was shown that it is possible to grow indigenous algae in open ponds in an arid region using pre-cleaned waste water as growth medium.
