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Waste Disposal Incidents In The United States
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. 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. Definitions What constitutes waste depends on the eye of the beholder; one person's waste can be a resource for another person. Though waste is a physical object, its generation is a physical and psychological process. The definitions used by various agencies are as below. United Nations Environment Program According to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shredded Solid Waste
Shredding, shred, shredder, or shredders may refer to: Equipment * Industrial shredder * Paper shredder * Scrap metal shredder * Woodchipper, or tree shredder Arts, entertainment, and media Films * Shred (film), ''Shred'' (film), a 2008 film by David Mitchell * Shredder (film), ''Shredder'' (film), a 2003 film by Craig Donald Carlson and Greg Huson Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Shred guitar, a speed-based virtuoso style of electric guitar playing * Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Shredder (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''), a supervillain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise * Shredders (music group), an American hip hop group * ''Shredder'', a 1973 album by The Wackers * "Shredder", a 1998 single by Christopher Lawrence (DJ), Christopher Lawrence Computing * Shred (Unix), a Unix command for secure file deletion * Shredder (software), a chess program developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen * Shredding (data remanence), overwriting storage media with n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
