Solid Waste Management: related to storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste or resource recovery, and facilities necessary for such activities.
Waste management industry
A term variously applied to collectors, sorters and reprocessors of waste/resources. The term may also be used to include landfill operators.
Waste management infrastructure ...
Waste management
The management of waste collection, handling, processing, storage and transport from where it is produced to where it is finally disposed. See waste prevention.
Waste prevention ...
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.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT The handling of activities which provide for the collection, separation, storage, transport, transfer, processing, recycling, incineration, treatment and disposal of solid waste.
Solid Waste Management: Supervised handling of waste materials from their source through recovery processes to disposal.
Solid waste management units (SWMUs)
Any unit at a hazardous waste facility from which hazardous chemicals might migrate, whether or not they were intended for waste management.
animal waste management system
A BMP designed to minimize pollution originating from livestock and poultry operations by providing facilities for the storage and handling of animal wastes.
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In waste management, this refers to chemicals that are transported off the grounds of a waste facility-to be sent to other locations that are appropriately equipped to handle hazardous waste.
Solid Waste Management Facility
Any disposal or resource recovery system; any system, program, or facility for resource conservation; any facility for the treatment of solid wastes. ...
packaging waste management
pan-European landscape and biological diversity strategy
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Commercial Waste Management Facility: A treatment, storage, disposal, or transfer facility which accepts waste from a variety of sources, as compared to a private facility which normally manages a limited waste stream generated by its own operations.
integrated waste management Using a variety of practices to handle municipal solid waste; can include source reduction, recycling, incineration, and landfilling.
Construction Waste Management Plan (CWMP) : A plan that diverts construction debris from landfills through conscientious plans to recycle, salvage, and reuse.
Waste Management Information
A Recycling Revolution
Local recycling information
Recycling Cell Phones
Recycling Information
Glass Recycling
Paper Recycling
National Recycling Coalition
New York Times Magazine: Recyling is Garbage ...
INTEGRATED POLLUTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (IP&WM) Integrated Pollution and Waste Management is an approach adopted by Government to deal with the current problems relating to waste management and pollution.
There are six boards, departments, and offices under the organization of Cal/EPA including the California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB), ...
Suspended solids (SS): Defined in waste management, these are small particles of solid pollutants that resist separation by conventional methods.
Systems under which residents pay for municipal waste management and disposal services by weight or volume collected, not a fixed fee.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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A well drilled at a hazardous waste management facility or Superfund site to collect ground-water samples for the purpose of physical, chemical, or biological analysis to determine the amounts, types, ...
Comminution: Mechanical shredding or pulverizing of waste. Used in both solid waste management and wastewater treatment.
It makes sense to look at the alternatives," said Fernando Berton of the California Integrated Waste Management Board. "If we can turn something from a waste into a resource, we should be doing that." ...
waste emissions = emissions from solid waste disposal on land, wastewater, waste incineration and any other waste management activity ...
EPA can require treatment, storage and disposal (TSDF) facilities handling hazardous waste to undertake corrective actions to clean up spills resulting from failure to follow hazardous waste management procedures or other mistakes.
Chlorine reacts with the ozone creating diatomic oxygen and chlorine monoxide which cycles back to chlorine radicals. [Environmental Science and Technology; v28; 1243-1247; 1994.] [Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association; v41; 1579-1584; ...
This effort is usually passive, or may consist of simply redistributing harvest residue across a site. In some relatively unique circumstances, forests have received organic matter additions, usually for nutritional or waste management reasons.
 See also: Waste, Environment, Water, Environmental, Pollution
  
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