Knowledge Base | Glossary
Recycling & Waste Glossary
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- What are Botanical Pesticides?
- What is the Biosphere?
- What is Bioremediation?
- What is a Bioreactor Landfill?
- What are Bioplastics?
- What is Biomass Incineration?
- What is Bioluminesence?
- What is Biogeography?
- What is Backyard Composting?
- What is Biocapacity?
- What is Biodegradeable Plastic?
- What is Biodegradation?
- What is Biodiesel?
- What is Biodiversity?
- What is Bioenergy?
- What is Bioerosion?
- What is Biofiltration?
- What are Biofuels?
- What is Biogas?
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- What is a Circular Economy?
- How to Recycle CFL Light Bulbs
- What are Commercial Recycling & Waste Bins?
- What are Centralized Recycling & Waste Bins?
- What is Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)?
- What are Composting Facilities?
- What is Closed-Loop Recycling?
- What is Clearcutting?
- What are Clean Fuels?
- What is Clean Energy?
- What is the Clean Air Act?
- What is the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)?
- What is the CERtified Emissions Reduction (CER)?
- What is Carbon Trading?
- What is a Carbon Sink?
- What is Carbon Sequestration?
- What are Carbon Offsets?
- What is Carbon Neutral?
- What is Carbon Leakage?
- What is a Carbon Footprint?
- What is the Carbon Cycle?
- What is a Carbon Credit?
- What is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)?
- What is a Cap and Trade System?
- What is a Capacity Estimate?
- What is a Composition Audit?
- What is Compost/Organics?
- What is Curbside Collection?
- How does Recycling affect Climate Change?
- What is Climate Change?
- What is Single-Stream/Commingled recycling collection?
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- What is a Diversion Rate?
- What is a Division?
- What are Deskside Recycling & Waste Bins?
- What is Downcycling?
- What is Deforestation?
- What is DEET?
- What is Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)?
- What are Data Points?
- What is Demand-side Waste Management?
- What is the difference between Diversion Rate and Recycling Rate?
- What is the difference between direct and inDirect Emissions?
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- What is Environmental Psychology?
- What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
- What is an Environmental Effect Analysis (EEA)?
- What is Environmental Economics?
- What is an Environmental Audit?
- What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?
- What is E-cycling?
- What is Ecotourism?
- What is Ecological Impact?
- What is an Ecological Footprint?
- What are Ecological Anthropology?
- What is Earth Day?
- What are Endpoints?
- What is E-waste?
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- What is Pollution?
- What is The Paris Agreement?
- What is Program Composition?
- What is Pre-cycling?
- What is Poultry Litter?
- What is Post-Combustion Carbon Capture?
- What are the Polar Ice Caps?
- What is Point Source Pollution?
- What is a Plastic Shredder?
- What is a Plastic Granulator?
- What is Pay-as-You-Throw/Unit-Based Pricing?
- What is Paper Pollution?
- What is Post-Consumer Recycled Content?
- What are Program Divisions?
- What is Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)?
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- What is Renewable Natural Gas?
- What is Resource Depletion?
- What is Renewable Energy?
- What is a Red Bag Waste?
- What is a Recycling Rate?
- What are Recycled Aggregates?
- What is Refuse?
- What is the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA)?
- What does Reclamation mean?
- What is Recycled Content?
- What is the difference between Diversion Rate and Recycling Rate?
- How does Recycling affect Climate Change?
- How are Recyclable Materials separated?
- What is Recycling and how does it work?
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- What is Sustainable Development?
- What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
- What is a Station?
- What is Stream Composition?
- What is a Station Audit?
- What is Stream Contamination?
- What are Secondary Materials?
- What are Streams?
- What is Source Reduction?
- What is Single-Stream/Commingled recycling collection?
- What is Sustainability?
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