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Waste: Waste Management (Or Waste Disposal) Are The Activities and Actions Required To

Waste management is the process of handling waste from its origin until disposal, including collection, transport, treatment, and monitoring. It deals with solid, liquid, and gaseous waste from human activity like industry and households. Waste management practices vary between countries, regions, and sectors, and aim to reduce health and environmental impacts while prioritizing waste prevention and resource recovery through practices like reuse, recycling, and composting according to the waste hierarchy pyramid. A large portion of waste management focuses on municipal solid waste from residential and commercial activities.

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Waste: Waste Management (Or Waste Disposal) Are The Activities and Actions Required To

Waste management is the process of handling waste from its origin until disposal, including collection, transport, treatment, and monitoring. It deals with solid, liquid, and gaseous waste from human activity like industry and households. Waste management practices vary between countries, regions, and sectors, and aim to reduce health and environmental impacts while prioritizing waste prevention and resource recovery through practices like reuse, recycling, and composting according to the waste hierarchy pyramid. A large portion of waste management focuses on municipal solid waste from residential and commercial activities.

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Waste management 

(or waste disposal) are the activities and actions required to


manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes the collection,
transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of
the waste management process.
Waste can be solid, liquid, or gaseous and each type has different methods of
disposal and management. Waste management deals with all types of waste,
including industrial, biological and household. In some cases waste can pose a
threat to human health. Waste is produced by human activity, for example the
extraction and processing of raw materials. Waste management is intended to
reduce adverse effects of waste on human health, the environment or aesthetics.
Waste management practices are not uniform among countries
(developed and developing nations); regions (urban and rural areas),
and residential and industrial sectors can all take different approaches.
A large portion of waste management practices deal with municipal solid waste(MSW)
which is the bulk of the waste that is created by household, industrial, and
commercial activity.
Waste hierarchyEdit
The waste hierarchy refers to the "3 Rs" reduce, reuse and recycle, which classifies
waste management strategies according to their desirability in terms of waste
minimisation. The waste hierarchy is the cornerstone of most waste minimisation
strategies. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical
benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of end waste;
see: resource recovery.[6] The waste hierarchy is represented as a pyramid because
the basic premise is that policies should promote measures to prevent the
generation of waste. The next step or preferred action is to seek alternative uses for
the waste that has been generated i.e. by re-use. The next is recycling which
includes composting. Following this step is material recovery and waste-to-energy.
The final action is disposal, in landfills or through incineration without energy recovery.
This last step is the final resort for waste which has not been prevented, diverted or
recovered.[7][page  needed] The waste hierarchy represents the progression of a product
or material through the sequential stages of the pyramid of waste management. The
hierarchy represents the latter parts of the life-cycle for each product.[7][page  needed]
Life-cycle of a productEdit
The life-cycle begins with design, then proceeds through manufacture, distribution,
and primary use and then follows through the waste hierarchy's stages of reduce,
reuse and recycle. Each stage in the life-cycle offers opportunities for policy
intervention, to rethink the need for the product, to redesign to minimize waste
potential, to extend its use.[7][page  needed] Product life-cycle analysis is a way to
optimize the use of the world's limited resources by avoiding the unnecessary
generation of waste.
Resource efficiencyEdit
Resource efficiency reflects the understanding that global economic growth and
development can not be sustained at current production and consumption patterns.
Globally, humanity extracts more resources to produce goods than the planet can
replenish.[7][page  needed] Resource efficiency is the reduction of the environmental
impact from the production and consumption of these goods, from final raw material
extraction to last use and disposal.
Polluter-pays principleEdit
The polluter-pays principle mandates that the polluting party pays for the impact on
the environment. With respect to waste management, this generally refers to the
requirement for a waste generator to pay for appropriate disposal of the
unrecoverable material.

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