It rots, is pilfered or spoiled by pests, in that collection and distribution system.

FORBES: India Opens The Food Market To Foreigners

While her body rots encased in its external skeleton, her lingering scent misleadingly tells the colony that all is still well.

ECONOMIST: The secret life of ants

We have all allowed ourselves to get trapped into this rampant level of consumerism which rots our souls and makes us miserable.

FORBES: The Disease of More

More importantly, they keep acquiring stuff that cannot be consumed and never rots or rusts: plastic toys, metal garden furniture, porcelain knick-knacks.

ECONOMIST: Why people are stupider than squirrels

On top of that, a lot of methane (a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide) emerges when all this food rots.

ECONOMIST: America��s food-waste problem is getting worse

More than half of those aged between four and 18 also suffered from dental erosion - when acid found for example in fizzy drinks and some fruit juices directly rots the teeth.

BBC: Dentist

And I think that makes complete sense as a response to some of the artists that we have shown, who, you know, make huge installation projects full of meat - that then rots.

NPR: Former Vegetarians Start Magazine About Meat

It is no longer reasonable to expect foreigners to sit uncomplainingly for days in the cabs of their lorries while their produce rots, or linger on the quayside while boats prevent ferries sailing.

ECONOMIST: Britain is not the only awkward partner in Europe

The government signed up to a European Union directive, and by 2020 the amount of biodegradable waste - the stuff that rots - going to landfill, will have to be cut back by millions of tons a year.

BBC