By offering the false promise of disposability, of consumption without cost, it has helped create a culture of wasteful make-believe, an economy of forgetting.
While this will not feed the extra two billion people we can expect by 2050, being more resource efficient and less wasteful can make a significant contribution to future food security.
Grist's Umbra says it's time to get over the disposable razors because they're wasteful and make you look cheap.
I think we'd all like to sit down with the administration and find areas of the VA budget that are redundant or wasteful, to make sure every dollar spent there is necessary".
It is a bit wasteful to make big deal out of this.
The logic of this is unclear, because it seems energetically wasteful to make several transmitters serving the same function of excitation.
The figures come as China's leadership says it wants to transform the growth model away from an over-reliance on often wasteful investment, making private demand the driver for the country's development.
With exports strong, politicians have put off deregulating crucial industries and scrapping wasteful subsidies, which make Japan one of the most expensive countries in the world to do business, critics say.
While the outside world sees a vibrant Chinese stock market, splashy initial public offerings and new billionaires - all ostensibly signs of an increasingly market-oriented economy - the reality, they say, is a system in which the state manipulates the markets to raise huge sums of money and then forces the banking system to make wasteful loans to state-owned companies.
Second, eliminating wasteful spending will make it far easier to handle the even more serious economic challenges ahead.
You may not have heard of Onavo, but they have a data compression app that helps users shut down wasteful apps and make the most out of their limited data plans.
