single-use
Adjective
Meaning
single-use (not comparable)
Designed to be used one time and then discarded or disposed of.
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Examples
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
Agnes Pannier-Runacher, state secretary to France’s economy minister, told French broadcaster RTL that the government’s objective “is to convince large buyers to switch from single-use masks to reusable washable textile masks.”
Additional single-use masks will be made available at schools, and the government will also be supplying 466,000 litres of hand sanitizer to schools.
Among other things, the initiative would require all single-use plastics to be recyclable, reusable, refillable, or compostable by 2030, and reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging and foodware by 25% by 2030.
As well as being non-recyclable and non-degradable, it takes a ton of water to produce each single-use cotton pad, which, unless it’s made from organic cotton, is also grown with pesticides which damage the surrounding environment.
All single-use items provided by the hotel but left by the guests should also be discarded, and linens and towels should be washed “using the warmest permissible water setting.”