List of waste types
Main article: Waste
Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways. The types listed here are not necessarily exclusive and there may be considerable overlap so that one waste entity may fall into one to many types. The only types listed here are those with Wikipedia articles:
- Agricultural waste
- Animal by-products
- Biodegradable waste
- Biomedical waste
- Bulky waste
- Business waste
- Chemical waste
- Clinical waste
- Coffee wastewater
- Commercial waste
- Composite waste
- Construction and demolition waste (C&D waste)
- Consumable waste
- Controlled waste
- Demolition waste
- Dog waste
- Domestic waste
- Electronic waste (e-waste)
- Food waste
- Gaseous wastes
- Green waste
- Grey water
- Hazardous waste
- Heat waste
- Household waste
- Human waste
- Industrial waste
- Inert waste
- Inorganic waste
- Kitchen waste
- Litter
- Liquid waste
- Marine debris
- Medical waste
- Metabolic waste
- Mineral waste
- Mixed waste
- Municipal solid waste
- Nuclear waste (see Radioactive waste)
- Organic waste
- Packaging waste
- Post-consumer waste
- Radioactive waste
- Recyclable waste
- Residual waste
- Retail hazardous waste
- Sewage
- Sharps waste
- Ship disposal
- Slaughterhouse waste
- Special waste - see hazardous waste
- Toxic waste
- Uncontrolled waste
- Waste heat
- Wastewater
- Winery wastewater
See also
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- List of waste management companies
- List of waste management topics
- List of solid waste treatment technologies
- List of Superfund sites in the United States
- List of topics dealing with environmental issues
- Pollution
- Waste management
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