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2. Garbage disposal unit - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]

3. Automated vacuum collection - Wikipedia

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   Pneumatic waste collection systems provide a number of environmental benefits. These systems can decrease emissions from transit of waste by up to 90%. [5] Systems in Europe provide separate outlets for food, recycling, and non-recycling, making waste separation and recycling more efficient.

4. New York City waste management system - Wikipedia

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   Until the 1960s, eleven unfiltered trash incinerators operated in NYC, burning garbage without regulation. [26] The last municipal incinerators in the city closed in the 1990s. [27] Currently, trash from Manhattan is sent to the Essex County Resource Recovery Facility, a waste-to-energy incineration power station. Ash from the incinerator is ...

5. Sanitation - Wikipedia

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   The term environmental sanitation is used to cover the wider concept of controlling all the factors in the physical environment which may have deleterious impacts on human health and well-being. In developing countries, it normally includes drainage, solid waste management, and vector control, in addition to the activities covered by the ...

6. Waste container - Wikipedia

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   Japan's trash containers are divided into combustibles, cans/bottles/pet bottles and newspapers and magazines. Recycling trash can in Natal, Brazil. A waste container, also known as a dustbin, [1] rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.

7. Pile of 'garbage' foods with debatable toppings is a delicacy ...

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   Garbage plates, combining macaroni salad, meat sauce and other intriguing toppings, are a popular menu item in Rochester, New York. The owner of local restaurant Dogtown says they're in high demand.

8. Musk calls some MAGA supporters ‘contemptible fools’ as visa ...

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   Tech billionaire Elon Musk labeled a section of President-elect Trump supporters as “contemptible fools” as the online debate around visas for highly skilled workers on the right intensifies.

9. List of waste management acronyms - Wikipedia

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   MRWA Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority formerly known as Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority; MSW Municipal Solid Waste; MSWI Municipal Solid Waste Incineration; MVDA Motor Vehicle Dismantlers Association; MWDA Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority as of December 2011 renamed as Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority