Jätteestä

Jätteestä is a Finnish term functioning as the elative singular form of jäte, meaning "from waste" or "out of waste." The elative case in Finnish expresses origin or source, so jätteestä is used to indicate that something comes from waste material or is derived from waste.

In practice, jätteestä appears in contexts related to waste management, recycling, and environmental policy. For example, in everyday language one can say "Energiaa voidaan tuottaa jätteestä" (Energy can be produced from waste), or in technical writing "jätteestä erotellut materiaalit" (materials separated from waste). The form is neutral and descriptive, not inherently evaluative, and is commonly found in official documents, academic texts, and industry reports.

Morphology notes: jäte is the noun meaning waste; adding the elative suffix -stä yields jätteestä. Other related forms in the same word family include several cases such as jätteen (genitive) and jätettä (partitive), illustrating Finnish’s rich case system. The word often appears in contexts alongside kierrätys (recycling), jätehuolto (waste management), and biojäte (biowaste).

See also: jäte, kierrätys, jätehuolto, biojäte.