A better way of viewing it  perhaps would be  along the lines that there is no such thing  as  rubbish (waste); as  rubbish (waste)  is  just something in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Example: Small amounts of the nuclear industries radioactive 'waste' such as Strontium-90 has found useful applications. Yet it is obtained from the nuclear industries waste, which un-contained  would pollute the environment.