Solid Waste, Measuring
We usually know where things come from. The food we buy comes from farms, practically everything else we own comes from factories, and the raw materials to make them come from m...
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Waste Disposal
One of the consequences of a modern society is the generation of enormous amounts of waste. The scale of materials use by industrialized countries dwarfs that of a century ago. By 2000 ...
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Waste Disposal
Waste management is the handling of discarded materials. Recycling and composting, which transform waste into useful products, are forms of waste management. The management of waste als...
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Elimination of Waste
The conversion of foodstuff to energy and various body processes produces excess compounds that cannot be used by the body. They must be removed or else the body will become toxic...
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Waste Disposal
The massive amount of waste generated every day is a hallmark of affluent, modern society. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), municipal solid waste--a combination o...
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Waste Control and Environmental Cleanup
Scientists have known for many years that microorganisms, particularly bacteria, are capable of removing contaminants from water, soil, and sediments. This abil...
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Permanent Retrievable Storage
Permanent retrievable storage is a method for handling highly toxic hazardous wastes on a long-term basis. At one time, it was widely believed that the best way of deal...
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Small Quantity Generator
Small quantity generators (SQGs) are facilities that do not generate more than 2,205 lb (1,000 kg) of regulated hazardous waste or more than 2.2 lb (1 kg) of acute hazardous...
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Solid Waste
Solid waste is composed of a broad array of materials discarded by households, businesses, industries, and agriculture. The United States generates more than 11 billion tons (10 billion ...
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Solid Waste Recycling and Recovery
Recycling is the recovery and reuse of materials from wastes. Solid waste recycling refers to the reuse of manufactured goods from which resources such as steel, c...
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Solid Waste Volume Reduction
Solid waste volume reduction can take place at several points in the waste management process. Solid waste volume reduction can take the form of precycling or reuse beha...
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Source Separation
Source separation is the segregation of different types of solid waste at the location where they are generated (a household or business). The number and types of categories into w...
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Toxics Use Reduction Legislation
In recent years, such disasters resulting from toxic chemicals as those at Love Canal, New York, and in Bhopal, India, have increased awareness of the hazards associ...
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Transfer Station
The regional disposal of solid waste requires a multi-stage system of collection, transport, consolidation, delivery, and ultimate disposal. Many states and counties have established ...
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Urban Contamination
In urban areas where there has been extensive reshaping of the land surface, disturbance from building and road construction, land-filling, and additions of a variety of chemical...
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Waste Exchange
Getting rid of industrial waste poses many problems for those who generate it. With environmental restraints enforced by fines, companies must minimize waste at its source, recycle it...
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Waste Management
The way that we manage our waste materials is a sign of the times. In our agrarian past, throwing garbage out into the street for roving pigs to eat seemed like a perfectly reasonab...
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Waste Reduction
Waste reduction aims to reduce environmental pollution by minimizing the generation of waste. It is also often an economically viable option because it requires an efficient use of r...
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Injection Well
Injection wells use high-pressure pumps to inject liquid wastes into under-ground geologic formations (e.g., sandstone or sedimentary rocks with high porosity). Many geologists believe ...
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Waste, International Trade In
During the past three decades, one of the most persistent international environmental issues has been the toxic waste trade between industrialized countries and less deve...
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Waste, Transportation Of
The transportation of waste is the movement of waste over a specific area by trains, tankers, trucks, barges, or other vehicles. The types of wastes that may be transported ra...
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While technology has revolutionized the way people live, it has not come without a direct environmental cost. Toxic waste or electronic waste (e-waste), produced by obsolete electronic products, is gr...
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Solid Waste, Measuring
Waste Disposal
Waste Disposal
Elimination of Waste
Waste Disposal
Waste Control and Environmental Cleanup
Permanent Retrievable Storage
Injection Well
