Wasteland may refer to: A landscape devoid of nutrients, soil and/or moisture; see also, overgrazing, slash and burn, deforestation, erosion, scorched earth Wasteland (mythology), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow in which he compares television to "a vast wasteland" Wasteland, recycled clothing company based in San Francisco and Los Angeles In entertainment: The Waste Land, a poem by T.S. Eliot The Waste Land… (More on Wasteland)