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2. Garbage - Wikipedia

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   Garbage in a 'Clean City' garbage can in Volzhskiy, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. In urban areas, garbage of all kinds is collected and treated as municipal solid waste; garbage that is discarded in ways that cause it to end up in the environment, rather than in containers or facilities designed to receive garbage, is considered litter.

3. Waste - Wikipedia

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   A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product's value above zero. Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

4. Municipal solid waste - Wikipedia

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   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 that are discarded by the public. " Garbage " can also refer specifically to food waste , as in a garbage disposal ; the two are sometimes collected separately.

5. Waste management - Wikipedia

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   A specialized trash collection truck providing regular municipal trash collection in a neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden Waste pickers burning e-waste in Agbogbloshie, a site near Accra in Ghana that processes large volumes of international electronic waste. The pickers burn the plastics off of materials and collect the metals for recycling ...

6. Waste treatment - Wikipedia

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   Waste treatment refers to the activities required to ensure that waste has the least practicable impact on the environment. In many countries various forms of waste ...

7. List of waste types - Wikipedia

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   Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways. The types listed here are not necessarily exclusive and there may be considerable overlap so that one waste entity may fall into one to many types.