"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by Australian rock group, The Triffids in February 1984.

[1][2] Not included on any of the band's studio albums nor extended plays, it was first compiled on Australian Melodrama (1994).

Its B-side, "Property Is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP Raining Pleasure.

Its name was adapted for a 2008 posthumous compilation of mid-1980s non-album tracks, Beautiful Waste and Other Songs.

[3] Youth Group's Toby Martin had previously filled in as one of the guest vocalists for a reformed The Triffids, at the Sydney Festival[4] performances earlier in that year.