It probably means that sweaters with holes in them or unusable electronic equipment won't qualify.
Treatment units are generally established outside the immediate disaster area, as aftershocks could potentially injure or kill staff and make equipment unusable.
When he returned, his equipment, too, was unusable.
Almost every medical supply recovery organization I spoke to told me that one big problem is that hospital donations are often unusable — expired medicines, broken machines, equipment that can't be used in hospitals with minimal resources.
He bought from his nephew, George Sellers, a set of molds for casting ingots and accompanying equipment, which proved unusable as they were not adapted to the Mint's machinery.
The men were barely trained, equipment was poor, even unusable in some cases, and the back-up was amateurish.
The collapse of a ceasefire between Russian separatists in the east and the Ukraine army has left hundreds of factories and countless pieces of agricultural equipment burnt out or unusable.
Much of the equipment it will handle will be unusable, but salvageable systems will be reconditioned and packaged with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor, a modem, a CD-ROM drive, Microsoft Office 97 and a one-year warranty, and sold for $250.
Any excess equipment dating back to the past century is likely soon to be unusable too.
In real-world applications, permanent structural changes and failures of measuring equipment can lead to a situation in which a selected model becomes unusable.
Even where equipment was available, staff reported it was often not well maintained, and was unusable or unreliable.
