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    of electronic goods due to the Digital Revolution and innovations in science and technology, such as bitcoin, has led to a global e-waste problem and hazard...
    152 KB (15,937 words) - 13:13, 21 May 2024
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    abbreviated as HAZMAT or hazmat). An example for dangerous goods is hazardous waste which is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health...
    26 KB (2,796 words) - 06:19, 21 March 2024
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    Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A...
    42 KB (6,364 words) - 14:29, 11 April 2024
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    Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes...
    89 KB (10,792 words) - 14:22, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
    The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is a European Community Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical...
    17 KB (1,713 words) - 17:24, 9 March 2024
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    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
  • developing countries, but those rules are aggressively ignored. Many waste goods are classed as "charitable donations" before they're dumped on scrap...
    20 KB (2,287 words) - 11:26, 2 March 2024
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    supplying goods that have been ordered and focus on efficiency, productivity (with a commitment to continuous improvement), and reduction of "wastes" for the...
    61 KB (7,462 words) - 04:32, 5 May 2024
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    referred to as black goods due to many products being housed in black or dark casings. This term is used to distinguish them from "white goods" which are meant...
    52 KB (5,012 words) - 16:27, 8 June 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...
    137 KB (14,245 words) - 15:24, 31 May 2024
  • Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is a nonfiction book by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins. The book is an ethnography of waste management...
    24 KB (2,798 words) - 16:49, 13 April 2024
  • progressively manufacture and consume more electronic goods, the e-waste generated from these goods grows as well. Japan ranks as the third most wasteful...
    15 KB (1,899 words) - 18:11, 6 June 2024
  • 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 Circular flow of income
    are represented as flows of money, goods and services, etc. between economic agents. The flows of money and goods exchanged in a closed circuit correspond...
    32 KB (4,174 words) - 13:13, 6 March 2024
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    Freeganism (category Food waste)
    and minimal consumption of resources, particularly through recovering wasted goods like food. The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan"...
    32 KB (3,718 words) - 19:54, 3 May 2024
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    and toys. Nondurable goods or soft goods (consumables) are the opposite of durable goods. They may be defined either as goods that are immediately consumed...
    7 KB (760 words) - 06:18, 11 May 2024
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    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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    as light or heavy based on such quantities. This also produces waste materials and waste heat that may cause environmental problems or pollution (see negative...
    6 KB (313 words) - 16:18, 14 May 2024
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    Throw-away society (category Waste management concepts)
    municipal solid waste. Non-durable goods (defined as products in use for less than three years) constitute 27 percent, while durable goods comprise 16 percent...
    25 KB (2,811 words) - 20:13, 13 April 2024
  • Tendering C&D Construction and demolition (e.g. C&D waste) CDG(CPL) Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling)...
    27 KB (2,946 words) - 17:41, 19 August 2023
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