Reduce. Reduce the amount of new stuff you buy. To reduce waste, buy things that have less packaging.
Reuse. Try to borrow or rent things you'll only need for a short amount of time, and reuse the things you already have.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The three Rs of waste management strategies in order of importance or desirability. Reduce, reuse, recycle is the guiding principle behind waste minimization.
Reduce
One of the easiest ways to be a good environmental citizen is to reduce, or cut back, in key areas of your life. Three of the most important resources you can reduce your consumption of are:
Energy
Water
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Do your part to reduce waste by choosing reusable products instead of disposables. Buying products with minimal packaging (including the economy size when that makes sense for you) will help to reduce waste.
reduce - act of purchasing or consuming less to begin with, so as not to have to reuse or recycle later.
refrigerants - cooling substances, many of which contain CFCs and are harmful to the earth's ozone layer.
Reduce - not using or buying products in the forst place so less waste, less recycling and less reusing.
reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device (RPZ device) A device containing a minimum of two independently acting check valves together with an automatically operated pressure differential relief valve located between the two ...
reduce the discharge of nutrients =
reforestation = Re-stocking/re-planting an area with trees, an area that had bee previous cleared ...
"reduce, reuse, recycle": a slogan encouraging people to learn to reduce consumption and waste.
renewable energy: energy from sources that will never run out, such as solar, wind, geothermal, wave, tidal, ground source and biofuels.
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Reduce: the most important. If you don't buy so much stuff in the first place, then you don't need to reuse or recycle it.
Reuse whatever you can (like plastic supermarket bags). If you can't reuse something,
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reduced by one-half.
halogen. One of the chemical elements chlorine, bromine, or
iodine.
To reduce 'indoor air pollution', make sure the room is well ventilated while painting. Try ventilating your home often, you can open windows or use a fan. And if your parents or friends smoke, ask them to smoke outside.
Risk reduced to levels such that further risk reduction measures would be so disproportionate to probability and consequence that it would be objectively unreasonable to implement them.
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This burn reduced the litter layer and fuel load, decreasing the chances of a catastrophic fire.
Activity to reduce the emission of noise or vibrations from a given source, or to protect persons and built-up structures from exposure to noise and vibrations.
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United Nations. Glossary of environment statistics.
Measures to reduce the amount of waste generated by an individual, household or organisation.
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leukopenia
Reduced concentration of leukocytes in the blood.
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Practices that reduce the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment. Also reduces the threat to public health and the environment associated with such releases.
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A substance that reduces the change in pH that would otherwise be produced by adding acids or bases to a solution. A pH stabilizer.
By-product
Material, other than the principal product, generated as a consequence of an industrial process.
Processes used to reduce, eliminate, or alter the nature of wastewater pollutants from non-domestic sources before they are discharged into publicly owned treatment works (POTWs).
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Measures taken to reduce the generation of a substance that could be harmful to living organisms if released to the environment. Pollution prevention can be achieved in many ways.
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Processes used to reduce or eliminate wastewater pollutants from before they are discharged.
Primary wastewater treatment
The removal of suspended, floating and precipitated solids from untreated wastewater.
Its intent is to reduce the amount of emissions produced annually. Carcinogen Any substance known to promote cancer. Carrying Capacity: The amount of use an environmental area can sustain long-term without loss of quality.
The health assessment is used to advise people how to prevent or reduce their exposures, to determine remedial actions or the need for additional studies.
Heavy snow:snowfall that reduces visibility to 0.31 mile (0.5 kilometer) and yields, on average, 4 inches (10 centimeters) or more in a twelve-hour period or 6 inches (15 centimeters) or more in a twenty-four-hour period.
Carrying capacity The maximum population size that can be supported indefinitely by a given environment, at which intraspecific competition has reduced the per capita net rate of increase to zero.
sapropel reduced, amorphous sediment of polluted or hypereutrophic lakes, glossy black with FeS, often odorous with H2S
saprophyte plants that obtain their energy and nutrients from dead organic matter.
The length of time required for the mass, concentration, or activity of a chemical or physical agent to be reduced by one-half.
halogen. One of the chemical elements chlorine, bromine, or iodine.
hard water.
secondary treatment Stage of wastewater treatment wherein bacteria are used to break down organic materials and significantly reduce biochemical oxygen demand.
It may be designed to raise money or it may be revenue neutral, where the monies raied are used to reduce other taxes. climate The long term average changes in temperature and precipitation.
Identifying areas, processes, and activities which create excessive waste products or pollutants in order to reduce or prevent them through altering or eliminating a process.
The stomatal closing reduces CO2 uptake as well as water loss, thus decreasing the photosynthetic rate.
#9 An international agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol has been negotiated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the US is not participating in it.
CLEANER PRODUCTION Cleaner production refers to a philosophy of improving industrial processes and products to prevent the pollution of air, water and land, to reduce waste at source and to minimize risks to the human population and the environment.
Developed Countries: Thirty-eight developed countries agreed to reduce their emissions of six greenhouse gases. Collectively, developed countries agreed to cut back their emissions by a total of 5.2 percent between 2008 and 2012 from 1990 levels.
Even though the problem of acid rain has been reduced, sulfur and nitrogen pollution levels must be brought down further.
Base Flow - (1) The flow that a perennially flowing stream reduces to during the dry season. It is supported by groundwater seepage into the channel.
The recycling process generally saves energy and reduces the need to extract additional raw resources from the earth.
Terminal Electron Acceptor (TEA): A compound or molecule that accepts an electron (is reduced) during metabolism (oxidation) of a carbon source. Under aerobic conditions molecular oxygen is the terminal electron acceptor.
IPP - Integrated Product Policy: a recent development in environmental policy, the essence of which is that public policy should use a range of mechanisms to reduce the environmental harm associated with whole product systems, ...
Control Technology; Control Measures - Equipment, processes or actions used to reduce air pollution. The extent of pollution reduction varies among technologies and measures.
Indirect Source Control Program: Rules, regulations, local ordinances and land use controls, and other regulatory strategies of air pollution control districts or local governments used to control or reduce emissions associated with new and existing ...
Mercury - Mercury is a toxic heavy metal released into the atmosphere, most significantly, through the burning of coal in coal-fired power plants and from Hg-cell chloralkali plants where Hg is used as a flowing electrode used to reduce Na+ to ...
Recycled Content Materials - One way to reduce the environmental impact of construction is to specify recycled content materials. Many types of construction materials can be purchased with some degree of recycled content.
Cleaner Production is the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes and products in order to reduce risks to human and the environment.
Industrial Source Reduction: Practices that reduce the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment; ...
Interim Remedial Measure (IRM) - An action taken at a contaminated site to reduce the chances of human or environmental exposure to site contaminants. Interim remedial measures are planned and carried out before comprehensive remedial studies.
Waste Reduction: A process to reduce or eliminate that amount of waste generated at its source or to reduce the amount of toxicity from waste or the reuse of materials.
The design, manufacture, purchase, or use of materials (such as products and packaging) to reduce the amount or toxicity of garbage generated.
The degree to which fishing reduces the SSB/R is expressed as a percentage of the MSP (i.e. %MSP). A stock is considered overfished when the fishery reduces the %MSP below the level specified in the overfishing definition.
There are two opposed effects: reduced ozone allows more solar radiation to penetrate, thus warming the troposphere. But a colder stratosphere emits less long-wave radiation, tending to cool the troposphere.
These scratches were file marks, , made at the mint in order to reduce the weight of a coin so that its metal value wouldn't exceed its face value.
Emission Controls - Any measure that reduces emissions into air, water or soil. The most effective emission controls involve the redesign of the process so less waste is produced at the source.
Consumptive use: The use of a resource that reduces the supply (removing water from a source like a river, lake or aquifer without returning an equal amount).
Gas Sorption: Devices used to reduce levels of airborne gaseous compounds by passing the air through materials that extract the gases.
This allows one source to increase emissions when another source reduces them, maintaining an overall constant emission level. Facilities that reduce emissions substantially may "bank" their "credits" or sell them to other facilities or industries.
Measures or techniques that reduce the amount of wastes generated during industrial production processes; term is also applied to recycling and other efforts to reduce the amount of waste going into the waste stream.
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Pre-treatment: Processes used to reduce or eliminate wastewater pollutants from before they are discharged.
Price at equilibrium: Where supply and demand curves intersect. The price at equilibrium is what allocates resources.
Dealkalinization Any process that serves to reduce the alkalinity of water.
Decarbonation The process of removing carbon dioxide from water, using contact towers or air scrubbers.
Defluoridation The removal of fluoride from drinking water.
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