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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waste disposal
noun
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▪ Air pollution and waste disposal were the two issues most in need of further legislation, according to the research.
▪ I have never come across a people more obsessed with waste disposal.
▪ Instead of generating less waste, they get rid of fussy impediments to waste disposal.
▪ It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo.
▪ Nuclear waste Disposal of intermediate level nuclear waste on land also presents a hazard.
▪ Paper could also be easily recycled and would considerably lift the waste disposal burden.
▪ The Department of Environment has confirmed the figure of 1,300 problem waste disposal sites.
▪ Waste: Tighter controls on dealing with waste are proposed with regulation carefully separated from those involved in waste disposal.
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waste disposal

n. Alternative name for a garbage disposal.

Usage examples of "waste disposal".

Then I sent Rachel over there, and she tipped all the remaining ampoules into the toxic waste disposal furnace.

He led them across a hall into a room whose center was filled by a three-dimensional scale, cutaway model of the Fort Foureau hazardous waste disposal project.

After all, a payoff of fifty thousand American dollars a month was a pittance against the two million dollars a day Massarde was reaping from the waste disposal project.

An elevated enclosed platform was strategically positioned above the entrance to the nuclear waste disposal and recycling centre.

First is waste disposal, second is ventilation and temperature control, and third is management.

There were four niggers, one of whom claimed to be the world's foremost authority on atomic waste disposal.

The waste disposal unit was in sink number two which had no taps above it.

That means each state has to either build its own waste dump or enter into a regional compact with nearby states to establish a joint waste disposal site.

It occurs to me that, technically, this could be considered an act of hazardous waste disposal.