"left to waste" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to something being neglected, ignored, or falling into disrepair. For example, "The old, abandoned house had been left to waste for many years."
It's easier to waste time when you know how much time there is left to waste.
There is too much ground to be made up, too many people who need us and too few opportunities left to waste more time talking to ourselves.
He watched others die around him from dysentery and lack of food, fearing he would also be left to waste away.
He said the company's most senior managers were left to waste billions of pounds on disastrous corporate transactions because the directors drawn from the Co-op movement were not qualified to keep them in check.
But they decided that Parker couldn't survive anyway, and that he would be more nutritious and his blood more drinkable if they killed him than if he was left to waste away.
How many years of their lives do they have left to waste?" Mr. Chu said he hoped that lawyers could cast doubt on the prosecutors' claim that the severe fractures were caused by shaking or flinging, since the autopsy showed no fractures to Annie's spinal cord and neck.
Globally, Save Food's research shows that almost half of all harvested fruits, vegetables and roots and tubers are lost or wasted and left to rot in landfills, largely because of their perishable nature and public squeamishness over consuming food after its sell-by date.
To begin with, dumps were simply places where waste was left to rot with little or no treatment.
What everyone involved agrees on is that the cleanup must move as quickly as possible, to help communities begin the rebuilding process and to prevent health problems that might emerge if waterlogged waste were left to rot.
The long-term negative consequences are that large quantities of solid waste is left to rot in the streets and serves as breeding ground for any number of harmful disease vectors, that rampant dumping in drainage canals occurs greatly increasing the risk of flood during the rainy season, that quantities of hazardous waste are left in the open, and that illegal dumping and burning is commonplace.
If you let your health go now it is a lot harder to get on a routine, and volunteering and giving back is an important part of being a part of society, and finally; I would be really upset and disappointed if all that time and money is left to go to waste".
