away (e wa') adv. in another direction [look away, turn away]

I'm nostalgic for the time before I looked behind the "away" curtain, as in "Throw it away".

Like all the unsavory things I can't un-know, discovering "away" has altered how I see.  
It now seems the fallout from our disposable culture is all I can see.
With more than 8.3 billion of us dependent on the planet’s resources, disregard for the consequences of consumptive capitalism and excess is ignored at our peril.