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waste stream

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meanings of wasteand stream


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waste
noun
uk /weɪst/ us /weɪst/
an unnecessary or wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, ...
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stream
noun[C]
uk /striːm/ us /striːm/
water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ...
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Examples of waste stream


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The wastestream was sorted, burnt, and the incinerator emissions monitored.
The first is landfill tax and the wastestream.
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The markets for each wastestream can be very different.
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Some councils have made that choice about the wastestream.
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The key point is that the wastestream is growing.
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This can, however, only to a certain extent mitigate the shortage problem because only a certain portion of plastics can return to the wastestream.
Unlike standard recycling, waste-pickers recover material from garbage that has already been disposed of and put into the municipal solid wastestream.
To achieve this the wastestream was manipulated and incinerator operations were monitored, whilst emissions were collected and measured under controlled conditions.
Informal waste-pickers in developing economies collect up to 40 per cent of the recyclable material from the wastestream as a result of an income-generating strategy.
Forced by these - in cross-national comparison - farreaching obligations, peak associations of industry negotiated an exemption scheme for the largest and most problematic wastestream, used sales packaging.
The recycled amount of glass packaging going into the wastestream has increased since 1998.
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What proportion of the current wastestream would fall into that category?
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We do measure local authority recycling and composting as a percentage of the wastestream.
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The funds would more properly be invested in dealing with the wastestream.
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We want to prevent significant amounts of mercury entering the wastestream.
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It is a very complex wastestream that includes several hazardous substances.
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Widening the wastestream would render that method of dealing with waste less appropriate.
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That forms a very large proportion of the household wastestream.
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They will be able to keep back waste from the wastestream to recycle.
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Many of you mentioned that this is the fastest-growing wastestream.
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The wastestream comes into that facility, directly collected from individual houses.
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There is no simple answer; the answer differs for each wastestream.
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The problem is enormous, and we must stem the wastestream.
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That wastestream is, in some cases, cheaper than landfilling that metal.
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