Voluntary Fast Food Waste Reduction Makes Headlines
There have been some strides in the fast food business with regard to packaging materials and waste reduction, but it has all been voluntary and usually under pressure from green groups.
Food Waste
Uneaten food and food preparation wastes from residences and commercial establishments such as grocery stores, restaurants, and produce stands, institutional cafeterias and kitchens, and industrial sources like employee lunchrooms.
Garbage
Food waste (animal and vegetable) resulting from the handling, storage, packaging, sale, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
Global Warming
See definition for Climate Change.
Backyard Composting Diversion of organic food waste and yard trimmings from the municipal waste stream by composting them in one's yard through controlled decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi into a humus-like product.
Biodegradable products include all plant and animal material, paper, food waste and fibers. Plastic, glass and metals are not biodegradable.
Oxygen Demand: materials such as food waste and dead plant or animal tissue that use up dissolved oxygen in the water when they are degraded through chemical or biological processes.
Rubbish- Solid waste, excluding food waste and ashes, from homes, institutions, and workplaces. Run-Off- That part of precipitation, snow melt, or irrigation water that runs off the land into streams or other surface-water.
compost - process whereby organic wastes, including food wastes, paper, and yard wastes, decompose naturally, resulting in a product rich in minerals and ideal for gardening and farming as a soil conditioners, mulch, resurfacing material, ...
black water : Water that contains animal, human, or food waste.
bloom (algal) : A proliferation of algae and/or higher aquatic plants in a body of water; often related to pollution, especially when pollutants accelerate growth.
blackwater Water that contains animal, human, or food waste.
blank A bottle containing only dilution water or distilled water; the sample being tested is not added.
Black water: Water that contains animal, human, or food waste.
Brine Mud: Waste material, often associated with well-drilling or mining, composed of mineral salts or other inorganic compounds.
RUBBISH Solid waste that does not contain food waste.
SALVAGE The act of obtaining a secondary material through collection, sorting, etc.
SC Steel cans.
Weigh the contents and separate them, e.g. glass, food waste, plastics, textiles, paper and metals.
A rich soil-like material produced from decayed plants and other organic matter, such as food and animal waste, that decomposes (breaks down) naturally. Most food waste can be put into compost, but you should not include meat, bones, cheese, ...
Plant or animal matter originating from domestic or industrial sources, e.g. Grass clippings, tree prunings, food waste
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Surface water that is dark in color because it contains high levels of colored organic acids such as tannic acid, or (2) domestic wastewater that contains animal, human, or food wastes.
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Vermicompost, or Vcompost, is the heterogenous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and pure vermicast produced during the course of normal vermiculture operations.
 See also: Waste, Environmental, Environment, Water, Reduce
  
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