Definition of "wastepaper" []

• Discarded paper. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The data, assembled under the direction of Dr. Michael Andrews, chief economist for PIERS, suggest that while U.S. imports are mostly consumer goods, U.S. exports are mostly of low-value commodities such as wastepaper, chemicals, forest products wood pulp for instance, cotton and other basics."
• ""Tire" is a large, cylindrical vessel or vase of blown glass, about the size and shape of a bathroom wastepaper basket."
• "Round the corner, an artist is putting the finishing touches to a 10-year project to depict biblical scenes out of matches and wastepaper."