Waste management

Waste management is a set of activities that include the following: collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste; control, monitoring and regulation of the production, collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste; and prevention of waste production through in-process modification, reuse and recycling. The term usually relates to all kinds of waste, whether generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, or other human activities,[1] including municipal (residential, institutional, commercial), agricultural, and special (health care, household hazardous wastes, sewage…continue reading →