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2. Waste management - Wikipedia

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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. [1] 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 ...

3. Waste minimisation - Wikipedia

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   The most environmentally resourceful, economically efficient, and cost effective way to manage waste often is to not have to address the problem in the first place. Managers see waste minimisation as a primary focus for most waste management strategies. Proper waste treatment and disposal can require a significant amount of time and resources ...

4. Zero waste - Wikipedia

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   Zero waste refers to waste prevention as opposed to end-of-pipe waste management. [2] It is a "whole systems" approach that aims for a massive change in the way materials flow through society, resulting in no waste. [2] Zero waste encompasses more than eliminating waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling.

5. Resource recovery - Wikipedia

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   Resource recovery can be enabled by changes in government policy and regulation, circular economy infrastructure such as improved 'binfrastructure' to promote source separation and waste collection, reuse and recycling, [5] innovative circular business models, [6] and valuing materials and products in terms of their economic but also their social and environmental costs and benefits. [7]

6. Mountains of holiday food and packing waste are clogging ...

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   Reed, the Bay Area waste management spokesman, shared photos of the gargantuan piles of waste sitting in the company's San Francisco site. He said while these holiday spikes are predictable, they ...

7. List of solid waste treatment technologies - Wikipedia

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   In the UK some of these are sometimes termed advanced waste treatment technologies. Biodrying; Gasification. Plasma gasification: Gasification assisted by plasma torches; Hydrothermal carbonization; Hydrothermal liquefaction; Mechanical biological treatment (sorting into selected fractions) Refuse-derived fuel; Mechanical heat treatment; Molten ...