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MUNICIPAL WASTE

Specialty Definition: MUNICIPAL WASTE

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Energy

As defined in the Energy Security Act (P.L. 96-294; 1980) as "any organic matter, including sewage, sewage sludge, and industrial or commercial waste, and mixtures of such matter and inorganic refuse from any publicly or privately operated municipal waste collection or similar disposal system, or from similar waste flows (other than such flows which constitute agricultural wastes or residues, or wood wastes or residues from wood harvesting activities or production of forest products)." (references)

Environment

Waste which comes under the municipal refuse collection monopoly. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

Domestic refuse, as well as commercial or trade refuse and other waste which, because of its nature or composition, is similar to domestic refuse. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MUNICIPAL WASTE

Specialty definitions using "MUNICIPAL WASTE": Backyard CompostingMagnetic SeparationPay-As-You-Throw/Unit-Based Pricing. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MUNICIPAL WASTE

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Books

  • Municipal Waste Management in Europe - European Policy between Harmonisation and Subsidiarity (ENVIRONMENT & MANAGEMENT Volume 11) (reference)

  • Municipal Waste Incineration Risk Assessment: Deposition, Food Chain Impacts, Uncertainty, and Research Needs (Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis,) (reference)

  • Practical Handbook of Processing and Recycling Municipal Waste (reference)

  • Crtd: Vitrification of Residue from Municipal Waste Computsion (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MUNICIPAL WASTE

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Business

Solid municipal waste can be deposited at about 150 secured sites. (references)

The total capacity of landfills for municipal waste is sufficient at present. (references)

Table 4 also provides macro-scale indicator information on municipal waste management in Turkey. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Additionally, Bulgaria utilizes the method of landfill disposal for municipal waste. (references)

France

The principal forces behind the market expansion include the upgrading of municipal waste and fuel blending incinerators to comply with stricter EU regulations (treatment of dioxins and furans). (references)

Kuwait

The EPA is focussing on the following waste subsectors: refinery sludge in the oil sector, municipal waste, solid hazardous and medical waste, and industrial waste to improve current technology and equipment capabilities. (references)

Trade

Argentina

In addition, there are no official Municipal Waste Disposal Laws or product recycling regulations that affect imported products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MUNICIPAL WASTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

municipal waste

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MUNICIPAL WASTE

Language Translations for "MUNICIPAL WASTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kommunalt affald (urban refuse), byaffald (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stedelijke afvalstoffen (urban refuse), stedelijk afval (municipal refuse, urban refuse), stadsvuil (urban refuse), stadsafval (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhdyskuntajätteet, yhdyskuntajäte (urban refuse), kaupunkijäte (urban refuse). (various references)

   

French

  

résidu urbain, déchets municipaux, déchet urbain, déchet des zones résidentielles. (various references)

   

German

  

Siedlungsmüll, Siedlungsabfälle (urban refuse), kommunale Abfälle (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αστικά απορρίμματα, δημοτικά απορρίμματα (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spazzatura urbana (urban refuse), rifiuti urbani (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unicipalmay asteway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

resíduos urbanos (urban refuse), detritos urbanos (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

residuos urbanos (urban refuse), residuos municipales, basuras (urban refuse). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kommunalt avfall (urban refuse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MUNICIPAL WASTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-p-s-t-u-w"

-3 letters: antimusical, calumniates, manipulates.

-4 letters: aluminates, analeptics, calamities, calumniate, campaniles, capitalise, capitalism, culminates, implicates, inculpates, manipulate, melanistic, militances, municipals, paniculate, penultimas, plasticine, semantical, talismanic, ultimacies.

-5 letters: actiniums, acuminate, aluminate, analcimes, analcites, analeptic, analities, anapestic, anelastic, apiculate, aspectual, calamines, calamints, calamites, calumnies, campanile, campanili, canulates, cisalpine, cisplatin, claimants, clumpiest, culminate, eclampsia, impatiens, implicate, inculpate, inelastic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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