Waste

Waste and wastes are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or it is worthless, defective and of no use.

The term is often subjective (because waste to one person is not necessarily waste to another) and sometimes objectively inaccurate (for example, to send scrap metals to a landfill is to inaccurately classify them as waste, because they are recyclable). 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

United Nations Environment Program

According to the Basel Convention,

United Nations Statistics Division, Glossary of Environment Statistics

European Union

Under the Waste Framework Directive, the European Union defines waste as "an object the holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard."

Types

There are many waste types defined by modern systems of waste management, notably including:

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As Delhi drowns in garbage, there is an urgent need for a waste management overhaul

The Times of India 23 Apr 2024
Challenges such as delays in new waste management facilities and slow bio-mining of legacy waste ......
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Supreme Court seeks ‘concrete action plan’ to fix Delhi’s garbage woes

Hindustan Times 23 Apr 2024
At present, the report said, “a total legacy solid waste of around 280 lakh metric tonne (MT) is dumped at the three landfill sites – Bhalsawa, Ghazipur, and Okhla -- is being liquidated, and about 129 lakh MT MSW has so far been bio-mined.”. The Okhla dump site has stopped receiving any fresh municipal solid waste, it added....
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Small, medium-sized hospitals in Pune struggle to survive due to stringent norms

Hindustan Times 22 Apr 2024
Out of these over 400 hospitals are small and medium size hospitals. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO) ... Explore now! ... Various permissions, increasing Bio-Medical Waste charges, and charges for Combined Consent and Authorization (CCA) from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) with penalties in lakhs of rupees add up to the financial burden ... .......
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LETTER: Terra Firma in the middle of nowhere

Guam Pacific Daily News 19 Apr 2024
... to forever be a dumpsite for GovGuam toxic waste, PCBs, and storm debris ... There are not enough sewer lines in Eda Aga’ga to prevent toxic human bio-medical hospital waste from leaching into the island’s water supply and contaminating it with something much worse than ta’ki water....
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Sistema.bio eyes 20% growth in biodigester installations in India this year

Business Line 17 Apr 2024
Last year, the company installed some 40,000 units of bio-digesters in the country, which enable smallholder farmers to convert animal waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer, said Piyush Sohani, Managing Director, Sistema.bio India....
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Nexergy Holdings PLC Identifies Site in the United Kingdom to Transform Plastic Waste into Green ...

Pressat 16 Apr 2024
It's produced using innovative technology called the Cassandra Technology, which enables the conversion of various waste materials, such as plastic waste and bio-based materials like car tyres, into high-quality hydrocarbons ... waste and residues like car tyres and plastic waste....
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Precision Flow Measurement Supports an Energy-Efficient Future

The Engineer 15 Apr 2024
These have included bespoke oval gear flow meters for marine fuel flow measurement, monitoring the volume of grease lubricating wind turbine bearing mechanisms, high pressure intrinsically safe units for offshore oil drilling additive injection, and for biodiesel plants converting bio waste into sustainable biofuels....
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ITV leaves Midsomer Murders fans

The Daily Mail 15 Apr 2024
At the root of the murder was a cover-up, following the escape of a pandemic virus from a bio-research lab, deep in the English countryside ... 'Kudos to the actors delivering these lines with straight faces #MidsomerMurders this episode is jumping the shark big time; Even by #MidsomerMurders standards this bio-waste line is a bit far fetched' ... ....
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Hapag-Lloyd, Titan, and STX in largest bio-LNG bunkering operation

Seatrade Maritime News 11 Apr 2024
Bio-LNG used in the maritime industry is produced from biomass feedstocks like human or agricultural waste, which means it does not compete with the production of food, fiber, or fodder - a ket concern in biofuel sustainability. Bio-LNG can have net-zero or even net-negative GHG ......
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'Devil in the details' when considering biofuels - Victoria University lecturer

RNZ 11 Apr 2024
Add to playlistPlaylist ... It was possible to grow a crop and turn it into fuel, he said ... One example was at a research farm in Southland called Invermay during the 1970s which ran the whole farm on bio gas, he said. That involved taking animal waste and some plant material into a methane digester and then converting diesel machines to bio gas, he said....
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Hapag-Lloyd Carries Out Largest Bio-LNG Bunkering Yet

The Maritime Executive 10 Apr 2024
Hapag-Lloyd has become the latest liner to try bio-LNG as a marine fuel ... Bio-LNG used in the maritime industry is produced from biomass feedstocks like human or agricultural waste, which means it does not compete with the production of food, fiber, or fodder (like many traditional biofuels do)....

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