Garbage
Animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, storage, sale, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
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Garbage: animal and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, serving, and nonconsumption of food.
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Garbage: waste food that is thrown away, generally defined as wet food waste. The term is also used to describe all products discarded, regardless of their reusability or recyclability.
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Mobile garbage bin (MGB)
A wheeled kerbside container for the collection of garbage or other materials.
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Garbage produced by health facilities and hospitals which include a wide range of materials-from used syringes and needles, soiled dressings, blood, chemicals to human or animal body parts.
Garbage collection company that offers complete refuse removal service; many will also collect recyclables.
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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.
Common garbage or trash generated by industries, businesses, institutions, and homes.
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waste - garbage, trash.
waste site - dumping ground.
waste stream - overall waste disposal cycle for a given population.
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Mixture of organic garbage and degradable trash with soil, in which bacteria in the soil break down the garbage and trash into organic fertiliser.
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United Nations. Glossary of environment statistics.
The modern recycling movement, associated with avoided solid waste disposal costs in the United States, began in 1987 when a barge called the Mobro 4000, containing a little over 3,000 tons of garbage departed from Islip, ...
Compost reduces your solid waste output and can save money on your garbage bill. Composting is Nature's way of recycling. Compost is a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land.
Materials destined for the garbage dump but were, instead, rescued and refurbished as a new product.
Solid Waste: Defined in RCRA to include any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, ...
Many different kinds of biomass, such as wood chips, corn, and some types of garbage, are used to produce electricity. Some types of biomass can be converted into liquid fuels called biofuels that can power cars, trucks, and tractors.
COMPOST A mixture of garbage, degradable trash and soil in which bacteria in the soil break down the mixture into a soil conditioner (not a fertilizer). It has high organic content but low nitrogen.
CONC Concrete.
Solid Waste: Non-liquid, non-soluble materials ranging from municipal garbage to industrial wastes that contain complex and sometimes hazardous substances.
household waste Solid waste, composed of garbage and rubbish, which normally originated in a private home or apartment house. Domestic waste may contain toxic or hazardous waste. Also called domestic waste.
Non-liquid, non-soluble materials ranging from municipal garbage to industrial wastes that contain complex and sometimes hazardous substances.
Solid Waste Disposal
The final placement of refuse that is not salvaged or recycled.
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Municipal Solid Waste: Common garbage or trash generated by industries, businesses, institutions, and homes.
Sanitary landfill
A landfill which does not take hazardous waste, often called a "garbage dump." It must be covered with dirt each day to maintain sanitary conditions. The Integrated Waste Management Board regulates these facilities.
Particulates are produced by many sources, including burning of diesel fuels by trucks and buses, incineration of garbage, mixing and application of fertilizers and pesticides, road construction, industrial processes such as steel making, ...
Solid waste, composed of garbage and rubbish, which normally originated in a private home or apartment house. Domestic waste may contain a significant amount of toxic or hazardous waste.
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The second is methane, released from rice paddies, both ends of cows, rotting garbage in landfills, mining operations, and gas pipelines.
Nitrate
Plant nutrient and inorganic fertilizer that enters water supply sources from septic systems, animal feed lots, agricultural fertilizers, manure, industrial waste waters, sanitary landfills and garbage dumps.(1) ...
Plant nutrient and fertilizer that enters water supply sources from fertilizers, animal feed lots, manures, sewage, septic systems, industrial wastewaters, sanitary landfills, and garbage dumps.
Nitric Oxide ...
chemicals such as PCBs and industrial waste products such as Dioxin, which results from the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride or PVC, as well as Furans. They may be present in old electrical transformers or may be formed when burning garbage.
Your garbage piles up in enormous heaps. The sum total of this damage is your ecological damage is your footprint. If you live in a developed country, your footprint is perhaps 40 times that of a person living in the third world.
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