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  • Thumbnail for Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
    Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future,...
    23 KB (2,428 words) - 01:56, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radioactive waste
    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...
    111 KB (12,767 words) - 11:38, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biomedical waste
    Biomedical waste or hospital waste is any kind of waste containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials generated during the treatment of humans...
    32 KB (4,110 words) - 07:50, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electronic waste
    Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. It is also commonly known as waste electrical and electronic equipment...
    152 KB (15,937 words) - 13:13, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Municipal solid waste
    Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items...
    17 KB (1,789 words) - 05:06, 11 May 2024
  • WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging...
    14 KB (1,703 words) - 04:43, 18 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for High-level radioactive waste management
    production and nuclear weapons manufacture. Radioactive waste contains both short-lived and long-lived radionuclides, as well as non-radioactive nuclides...
    73 KB (8,332 words) - 23:44, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for WM (Waste Management) (company)
    Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM, is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company operating in North America...
    27 KB (2,793 words) - 18:10, 21 May 2024
  • Human waste (or human excreta) refers to the waste products of the human digestive system, menses, and human metabolism including urine and feces. As part...
    6 KB (755 words) - 21:53, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waste hierarchy
    Waste (management) hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from...
    15 KB (1,729 words) - 05:11, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waste collector
    A waste collector, also known as a garbage man, garbage collector, trashman (in the U.S), binman or dustman (in the UK), is a person employed by a public...
    15 KB (1,438 words) - 14:43, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zero waste
    Zero waste, or waste minimization, is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products...
    48 KB (5,743 words) - 04:35, 28 April 2024
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    Recycling (redirect from Pre-consumer waste)
    process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. This concept often includes the recovery of energy from waste materials. The recyclability...
    136 KB (14,125 words) - 22:38, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
    The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository...
    85 KB (9,952 words) - 10:57, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Industrial waste
    Industrial waste is the waste produced by industrial activity which includes any material that is rendered useless during a manufacturing process such...
    21 KB (2,313 words) - 10:10, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waste heat
    both for short- and long-term retention of heat or cold, can create or improve the utility of waste heat (or cold). One example is waste heat from air conditioning...
    23 KB (2,626 words) - 16:15, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Green waste
    Green waste, also known as "biological waste", is any organic waste that can be composted. It is most usually composed of refuse from gardens such as...
    9 KB (1,115 words) - 16:23, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waste minimisation
    Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful...
    18 KB (2,265 words) - 13:18, 21 May 2024
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    Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat from the primary treatment...
    38 KB (4,078 words) - 13:44, 26 February 2024
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    Wastewater (redirect from Waste water)
    Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications...
    3 KB (348 words) - 21:40, 6 May 2024
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