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  2. Environmental dumping - Wikipedia

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    Environmental dumping. A spray-painted sign above a sewer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, warning people to not pollute the local stream by dumping. Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial / nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another.

  3. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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    Deep geological repository is a type of long-term storage that isolates waste in geological structures that are expected to be stable for millions of years, with a number of natural and engineered barriers. Natural barriers include water-impermeable (e.g. clay) and gas-impermeable (e.g. salt) layers of rock above and surrounding the underground ...

  4. Landfill - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A landfill[a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was simply left in piles or thrown into pits (known in archeology as middens).

  5. Waste Atlas - Wikipedia

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    1st Annual report. 2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. [9] According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. [10]

  6. Waste management in Japan - Wikipedia

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    A variety of bags are used by households to recycle waste made from different materials. Recycling has been an increasing emphasis for waste disposal in Japan since recycling acts were passed in the 1990s. [1] In 2014, the Resource Recycle Rate, the ratio of total material inputs into the economy and the amount recycled into raw inputs was 15.8%.

  7. Waste management - Wikipedia

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    This includes the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws, technologies, and economic mechanisms. Waste can either be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management.

  8. History of waste management - Wikipedia

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    The first occurrence of organised solid waste management system appeared in London in the late 18th century. [13] A waste collection and resource recovery system was established around the 'dust-yards'. Main constituent of municipal waste was the coal ash (‘dust’) which had a market value for brick-making and as a soil improver.

  9. Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory is a laboratory located 500 metres underground in Bure in the Meuse département. It allows study of the geological formation in order to evaluate its capacity for deep geological repository of high-level and long-lived medium-level radioactive waste. It is managed by the Agence nationale ...

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