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• Waste management — is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics.… …   Wikipedia

• Waste oil — is defined as any petroleum based or synthetic oil that, through use or handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of impurities or loss of original properties. This page (appears to) uses the terms waste oil and …   Wikipedia

• Waste container — For the software component, see Recycle bin (computing). A collection of movable waste containers in Australia A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, and is usually made out of metal or plastic. Common terms are dustbin,… …   Wikipedia

• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant — The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world s second underground repository (after closure of the Germany s Asse Salt Mine in 1977) licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the… …   Wikipedia

• Underground nuclear testing — Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1990s. Nuclear weapons …   Wikipedia

• Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — Yucca Mountain The proposed design …   Wikipedia

• Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear Waste Policy Act — During the first 40 years that nuclear waste was being created in the United States, no legislation was enacted to manage its disposal. Nuclear waste, some of which remains dangerously radioactive with a half life of more than one million years,… …   Wikipedia

• Hazardous waste in the United States — Under United States environmental policy, a hazardous waste is a waste (usually a solid waste) that has the potential to:*cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating… …   Wikipedia

• Salt Waste Processing Facility — The Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) is a proposed nuclear waste treatment facility for the United States Department of Energy s Nuclear Reservation Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. It is being designed and constructed by the… …   Wikipedia

• Land disposal unit — A land disposal unit, or LDU, is a site in which hazardous waste is remedied through natural and man made processes.Types of LDUs for hazardous waste disposal (see RCRA Section 3004(k)):* Landfill * Surface impoundment * Waste pile * Land… …   Wikipedia