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| 687389795 | Waste | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted, the non useful parts of a system | |
| 687389796 | Municiple Solid Waste | solid materials discarded by commercial and educational facilities | |
| 687389797 | Waste Stream | The flow of (waste) materials from generation, collection and separation to disposal | |
| 687389798 | 'Reduce,Reuse, and Recycle" | 3 ways people can help practice conservation. | |
| 687389799 | Source Reduction | reducing waste at the source, producing less waste or decreasing its toxicity | |
| 687389800 | Reuse | use again after processing | |
| 687389801 | Recycling | the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | |
| 687389802 | Closed-loop Recycling | recycling of a product into the same product | |
| 687389803 | Open-loop Recycling | when materials are reused to form new products | |
| 687389804 | Compost | a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for fertilizing soil | |
| 687389805 | Leachate | polluted liquid produced by water passing through buried wastes in a landfill | |
| 687389806 | Sanitary Landfills | the most common method of disposal of solid waste, by compacting it and burying it under a shallow layer of soil | |
| 687389807 | Tipping Fee | charge for unloading or dump-ing of waste at a recycling facility, com-posting facility, landfill, transfer station, or waste-to-energy facility, usually stated in dollarsAorvor dollars/cubic yard | |
| 687389808 | Siting | designation of location for landfill, often politically charged | |
| 687389809 | Incineration | the act of burning something completely | |
| 687389810 | Ash | the residue that remains when something is burned | |
| 687389811 | Bottom Ash | the unburned and unburnable matter left after waste has gone through the combustion chamber in a waste combustion facility | |
| 687389812 | Fly Ash | fine solid particles of ash that are carried into the air when fuel is combusted | |
| 687389813 | Waste-to-Energy | the burning of waste in a controlled-environment incinerator to generate steam, heat, or electricity | |
| 687389814 | Hazardous Waste | any material that can be harmful to human health or the environment if it is not properly disposed of | |
| 687389815 | Superfund | the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationawide | |
| 687389816 | Brownfields | abandoned polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped | |
| 687389817 | Life-cycle Analysis | a process that attempts to identify the effect a product has on resources over its entire lifetime | |
| 687389818 | Integrated Waste Management | a combination of the best waste management techniques into a consolidated program to deal effectively with solid waste | |
| 687389819 | E-waste | important, low by weight increasing, release toxic metals and other components |
