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Rigid plastic container
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A formed or moulded plastic container that serves as a package, and maintains its shape when empty and unsupported. (How To Develop a Viable post-consumer plastic Handling Business, 1993).
Solid waste
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Garbage, refuse, sludges, and other discarded solid materials resulting from industrial and commercial operations and from community activities. It does not include solids or dissolved material in ...
Source reduction
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The design, manufacture, use or reuse of materials or products (including packages) to reduce their amount or toxicity throughout their useful life and when they are reused, recycled, landfilled or ...
Source separation
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The sorting of individual secondary materials at the point of collection or generation for recycling. Many curbside recycling programmes require the hauler to separate paper, glass, metal cans and ...
Materials recovery facility (MRF)
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A facility that receives materials in a form unacceptable by the marketplace. The MRF separates, removes contamination, sorts, densifies, and stores recyclable material types. Each material is ...
Municipal solid waste (MSW)
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A phrase for garbage generated from residential, commercial, institutional and industrial sources that falls into six basic categories-durable goods, non-durable goods, containers and packaging, food ...
Non-durable goods
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Consumer goods with a useful life of less than three years that include newspapers, paper towels, plastic cups and plates, disposable diapers, clothing, footwear and other items. (Characterization of ...
