Waste Coal
The low-energy-value discards of the coal mining industry.
Waste Stream: The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that are recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, ...
Waste minimisation
the analysis and revision of the use of materials, processes, equipment and procedures in order to reduce the unnecessary use of energy and resources, ...
Waste-to-Energy Facility/Municipal-Waste Combustor
Facility where recovered municipal solid waste is converted into a usable form of energy, usually via combustion.
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Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP): facility that treats wastewater (and sometimes runoff) from domestic and/or industrial sources by a combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes.
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Plastic Waste
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Waste-free school lunches also save schools time and money, as less waste cuts down on the frequency of trips to the outside dumpster and on the amount of trash that needs to be hauled away.
wastewater The used water and solids from a community (including used water from industrial processes) that flow through a collection system to a treatment facility.
Waste: 1. Unwanted materials left over from a manufacturing process. 2. Refuse from places of human or animal habitation.
Waste Characterization: Identification of chemical and microbiological constituents of a waste material.
waste site - dumping ground.
waste stream - overall waste disposal cycle for a given population.
waterborne contaminants - unhealthy chemicals, microorganisms (like bacteria) or radiation, found in tap water.
Waste Generation
The weight or volume of materials and products that enter the waste stream before recycling, composting, land filling, or combustion takes place.
Wastewater: Water containing waste including greywater, blackwater or water contaminated by waste contact, including process-generated and contaminated rainfall runoff.
waste
Anything that is discarded deliberately or otherwise disposed of on the assumption that it is of no further use to the primary user.
wasteland
Land not suitable for, or capable of, producing materials or services of value. A miscellaneous land type.
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Wastewater
Used water that goes down the drains of homes and businesses.
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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.
Waste Treatment Plant
A facility containing a series of tanks, screens, filters, and other processes by which pollutants are removed from water.
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Waste to Energy - Burning of industrial waste to provide steam, heat or electricity. Sometimes referred to as waste-to-fuel process ...
Waste
this is the same as 'rubbish'. It is a wide-ranging term, which includes most unwanted materials.
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WASTEWATER: Water that has been previously used by a municipality, industry, or agriculture and has suffered a loss of quality as a result of use.
Waste Diversion: The process of diverting waste from ending up in a landfill through recycling and composting efforts.
WASTE Unwanted materials remaining from manufacturing processes, or refuse from humans and animals.
WASTE EXCHANGE The use by one company of an industrial waste generated by another firm.
Wastewater reclamation. Treatment and management of municipal, industrial or agricultural wastewater to produce water of suitable quality for additional beneficial uses.
Waste minimisation
Techniques to keep waste generation at a minimum level in order to divert materials from landfill.
Wastewater: Water that carries wastes from homes, businesses, and industries. It is usually a mixture of water and dissolved or suspended solids.
Wastewater treatment: Any of the mechanical or chemical processes used to modify the quality of wastewater in order to make it more compatible or acceptable to humans and the environment.
Wastewater The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter.
Wastewater infrastructure The plan or network for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage in a community.
waste management: action to reduce waste, through material efficiency, waste reduction and the recovery and reuse of discarded material.
wave power: electricity generated by the motion of waves. For instance, waves may turn turbines.
Waste feed
The flow of wastes into an incinerator, boiler or industrial furnace. The waste feed can vary from continuous to intermittent (batch) flows.
Waste Hierarchy proposes that waste reduction is the best way to deal with waste, re-use the second best option, followed by recovery (e.g. recycling) and a last resort disposal.
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raw wastewater Wastewater before it receives any treatment.
raw water 1) Water in its natural state, prior to any treatment. 2) Usually the water entering the first treatment process of a water treatment plant.
yard waste The part of solid waste composed of grass clippings, leaves, twigs, branches, and garden refuse.
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.
toxic waste: Toxic waste is trash that can harm or kill living things, including people. Often chemicals, it can be also medical waste.
treaty: A treaty is a signed agreement between two or more countries.
Toxic Waste: A waste that can produce injury if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin.
Toxicant: A harmful substance or agent that may injure an exposed organism.
Bulky Waste: Large items of waste materials, such as appliances, furniture, large auto parts, trees, stumps.
Burial Ground (Graveyard): A disposal site for radioactive waste materials that uses earth or water as a shield.
Animal Waste: Discarded material originating from animals inoculated with agents infectious to humans during research, production of biologicals or pharmaceutical testing (e.g.
Organic Waste
This is anything that will rot (vegetables, fruits…). You can use it as compost for your vegetable garden, and if you do not have one, you can start one!
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Waste from remediation activities.
Abiotic
Nonliving,Not caused by or resulting from the activity of living organisms.
Waste minimization The elimination or reduction of a waste prior to its generation. This is accomplished by process changes rather than waste treatment methods.
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Waste building materials, dredging materials, tree stumps, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of homes, commercial buildings and other structures and pavements.
Waste material, often associated with well-drilling or mining, composed of mineral salts or other inorganic compounds.
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WASTE REDUCTION One of the best ways of solving the problem of excess hazardous and normal waste is to practise waste reduction.
Waste gases, vapours and small particles released into air.
Environment
External surroundings and conditions in which a company or an individual operates or which may effect, including living systems therein.
The wastewater generated by toilets.
Biodiesel
A type of fuel made by combining animal fat or vegetable oil with alcohol; biodiesel can be directly substituted for diesel), or be used as an additive.
Wastewater treatment - A facility designed to receive the wastewater from domestic sources and to remove materials that damage water quality and threaten public health and safety when discharged into receiving streams or bodies of water.
Solid Waste
Any solid, semi-solid, liquid, or contained gaseous materials discarded from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities.
WVO Waste Vegetable Oil. The fat we collect from chip shops etc, which is the main constituent of our fuel.
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Effluent: Waste liquid flowing into a river or lake from a house, industry, sewage treatment plant, or other source.
Erosion: Detachment of soil particles by water, wind, ice, gravity or organisms.
wastewater The used water and solids that are the result of domestic or industrial uses of water. Includes municipal waste or sewage. water purveyor An agency or person that supplies water.
Advanced Wastewater Treatment: Any treatment of sewage that goes beyond the secondary or biological water treatment stage and includes the removal of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and a high percentage of suspended solids.
WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, your broken or not wanted electronic gadgets like mobile phones or computers.
Windpower - energy derived from the wind.
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Litter- Waste that is improperly disposed of on the street, sidewalk, lakes and other bodies of water, and in the general environment.
Hazardous waste
Potentially harmful substances that have been released or discarded into the environment.
Solid Waste Solid products or materials disposed of in landfills, incinerated or composted. See also waste.
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Solid Waste-There is only so much room available for solid waste disposal, and because landfills are so tightly packed, it takes a great deal of time for material to decompose.
Gray Water - Wastewater from sinks, showers, kitchens, washers, etc. Unlike black water, gray water does not contain human waste. Typically gray water, after purification, is used for non-potable uses such as flushing, irrigation, etc.
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