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Definition of Waste
The term waste, as a noun used colloquially, means some form of devastation such as wasteland; on a smaller scale, it is synonymous with rubbish, garbage, and trash. Waste also has specific meanings, defined for a particular purpose. In economics, waste ...
- Archaeology of Garbage
- Consumption and Waste, Industrial/Commercial
- Acid Rain
- Aluminum
- Celluloid
- Coal Ash
- Computers and Printers, Business Waste
- Construction and Demolition Waste
- Copper
- Emissions
- Farms
- Fusion
- Garbage Project
- Hanford Nuclear Reservation
- High-Level Waste Disposal
- Hospitals
- Incinerator Waste
- Incinerators
- Incinerators in Japan
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Waste
- Iron
- Malls
- Medical Waste
- Midnight Dumping
- Mineral Waste
- Mining Law
- Noise
- Noise Control Act of 1972
- Nuclear Reactors
- Ocean Disposal
- Pesticides
- Power Plants
- Producer Responsibility
- Radioactive Waste Disposal
- Restaurants
- Rubber
- Sanitation Engineering
- Scrubbers
- Solid Waste Data Analysis
- Stadiums
- Sugar Shortage, 1975
- Supermarkets
- Sustainable Waste Management
- Thallium
- Uranium
- Waste Disposal Authority
- Consumption and Waste, Personal
- Adhesives
- Aerosol Spray
- Air Filters
- Alcohol Consumption Surveys
- Audio Equipment
- Automobiles
- Baby Products
- Beverages
- Books
- Candy
- Car Washing
- Carbon Dioxide
- Certified Products (Fair Trade or Organic)
- Children
- Cleaning Products
- Composting
- Computers and Printers, Business Waste
- Computers and Printers, Personal Waste
- Consumption Patterns
- Cosmetics
- Dairy Products
- Disposable Diapers
- Disposable Plates and Plastic Implements
- Dumpster Diving
- Engine Oil
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Fast Food Packaging
- Fish
- Floor and Wall Coverings
- Food Consumption
- Food Waste Behavior
- Fuel
- Funerals/Corpses
- Furniture
- Garden Tools and Appliances
- Gasoline
- Gluttony
- Hoarding and Hoarders
- Home Appliances
- Home Shopping
- Household Consumption Patterns
- Household Hazardous Waste
- Human Waste
- Junk Mail
- Lighting
- Linen and Bedding
- Magazines and Newspapers
- Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Garbage
- Meat
- Microorganisms
- Mobile Phones
- NIMBY (Not in My Backyard)
- Open Burning
- Packaging and Product Containers
- Paint
- Paper Products
- Personal Products
- Pets
- Post-Consumer Waste
- Pre-Consumer Waste
- Recyclable Products
- Recycling Behaviors
- Residential Urban Refuse
- Seasonal Products
- Septic System
- Sewage
- Shopping
- Shopping Bags
- Slow Food
- Sports
- Street Scavenging and Trash Picking
- Styrofoam
- Swimming Pools and Spas
- Television and DVD Equipment
- Tires
- Tools
- Toys
- Wood
- Yardwaste
- Geography, Culture, and Waste
- Africa, North
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Central America
- Chile
- China
- Developing Countries
- European Union
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Netherlands
- Pacific Garbage Patch
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Scandinavia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South America
- South Korea
- Space Debris
- Spain and Portugal
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Global Cities: Consumption, Waste Collection, and Disposal
- History of Consumption and Waste
- Atomic Energy Commission
- Bubonic Plague
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Cloaca Maxima
- Earth Day
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Fresh Kills Landfill
- Germ Theory of Disease
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
- History of Consumption and Waste, Ancient World
- History of Consumption and Waste, Medieval World
- History of Consumption and Waste, Renaissance
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1800–1850
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1850–1900
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1900–1950
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1950–Present
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., Colonial Period
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1500s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1600s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1700s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1800s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1900s
- Industrial Revolution
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
- Miasma Theory of Disease
- National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau
- National Survey of Community Solid Waste Practices
- Price-Anderson Act
- Public Health Service, U.S.
- Recycling in History
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Resource Recovery Act
- Rittenhouse Mill
- Rivers and Harbors Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- September 11 Attacks (Aftermath)
- Société BIC
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Trash as History/Memory
- Waste Reclamation Service
- Issues and Solutions
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Biodegradable
- Browning-Ferris Industries
- Capitalism
- Commodification
- Consumerism
- Definition of Waste
- Downcycling
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmentalism
- Garbage in Modern Thought
- Goodwill Industries
- Incinerator Construction Trends
- Organic Waste
- Overconsumption
- Politics of Waste
- Pollution, Air
- Pollution, Land
- Pollution, Water
- Recycling
- Rendering
- Salvation Army
- Sierra Club
- Social Sensibility
- Street Sweeping
- Sustainable Development
- Toxic Wastes
- Transition Movement
- Trash to Cash
- Typology of Waste
- Underconsumption
- Waste Management, Inc.
- Waste Treatment Plants
- Water Treatment
- WMX Technologies
- Zero Waste
- People
- Sociology of Waste
- Garbage Dreams
- Avoided Cost
- Crime and Garbage
- Culture, Values, and Garbage
- Economics of Consumption, International
- Economics of Consumption, U.S.
- Economics of Waste Collection and Disposal, International
- Economics of Waste Collection and Disposal, U.S.
- Environmental Justice
- Externalities
- Freeganism
- Garbage Art
- Garbage, Minimalism, and Religion
- Garblogging
- Greenpeace
- Material Culture Today
- Material Culture, History of
- Materialist Values
- Needs and Wants
- Population Growth
- Race and Garbage
- Rubbish Theory
- Socialist Societies
- Sociology of Waste
- Surveys and Information Bias
- Waste as Food
- U.S. States: Consumption, Waste Collection, and Disposal
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arizona Waste Characterization Study
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Waste, Municipal/Local
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