Green Dinners
Eat, Talk, and Solve Together
Green Dinners allow people in our local community to come together, not only to enjoy each others company, but also to bring up relevant issues occuring in our neighborhood that we'd like to change. It's a great opportunity to meet people, strengthen friendships, eat nourishing food, and to get in touch with your community. Green Dinners first initiated with ...learn more
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Created: Oct 18, 2007
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Waste Management
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Waste management refers to the methods of collecting, transporting, processing, treating, storing, and disposing of municipal, industrial, and commercial solid, liquid, and gaseous waste. The focus of waste management is increasingly to reduce the impact of waste on the environment as well as on human health, from reducing the quantity of waste produced to recycling waste materials to using landfill gas as a fuel. |
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Keywords solid waste, liquid waste, management, disposal, incineration, recycling, reuse, reduction, remediation, pollution, toxic waste, hazardous waste, solid municipal waste, power plant waste, fly ash, landfill, waste-to-energy, construction debris, commercial refuse, sludge, semisolid waste, reduction, sustainable waste management, cities, urban, rural, waste cycling, chemical, green cities, waste recovery, waste disposal, biodegradable, material goods |
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| Halve Your Cake and Eat It Too : Since small objects can leave a long impact trail in their wake... |
Planning for Sustainable Waste Management: Companion Guide to Planning Policy 
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things 
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