- Industry: Environment
- Number of terms: 834
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- Company Profile:
Waste Management, Inc. provides integrated waste management services in North America. The company offers collection, transfer, recycling, disposal, and waste-to-energy services. Its recycling operations include collection and materials processing, plastics materials recycling, and commodities ...
The section of the landfill where waste is being actively placed by disposal vehicles.
Industry:Environment
A piece of equipment used to compress and form recycled material into bales.
Industry:Environment
A fee charged for the amount of waste disposed of by customers at a landfill. (also see Tipping Fee)
Industry:Environment
A plant where methane gas (generated from decomposing solid waste) is collected and transported to a gas-processing facility at the landfill site. Once processed, the methane gas is sold directly to industrial users or to an Affiliate of WM to use as a fuel to power electricity generators.
Industry:Environment
Device that converts the heat energy of the steam from the boiler into electrical power.
Industry:Environment
A specifically directed course that a driver follows that has been designed for efficiency and to provide optimal service to customers.
Industry:Environment
An optional feature of front-load containers. The lockbar allows a customer to lock the container. When the container is emptied, and the container is raised up and over the truck, gravity causes the bar to drop allowing the container to be emptied.
Industry:Environment
Waste that is designated such by regulatory agencies either because it has elevated levels of hazardous chemicals or materials, because it exhibits a potentially dangerous characteristic (e.g., ignitable, corrosive, etc. ) or because the material belongs to a general family of materials which have been deemed hazardous by regulatory agencies.
Industry:Environment
