waste stream

collocation in English

meaningsofwasteandstream

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waste
noun
uk
/weɪst/us
/weɪst/
an unnecessary or wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, ...
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stream
noun[C]
uk
/striːm/us
/striːm/
water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ...
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(Definition ofwasteandstreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thewastestreamwas sorted, burnt, and the incinerator emissions monitored.
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The first is landfill tax and thewastestream.
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The markets for eachwastestreamcan be very different.
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Some councils have made that choice about thewastestream.
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The key point is that thewastestreamis growing.
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This can, however, only to a certain extent mitigate the shortage problem because only a certain portion of plastics can return to thewastestream.
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Unlike standard recycling, waste-pickers recover material from garbage that has already been disposed of and put into the municipal solidwastestream.
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To achieve this thewastestreamwas manipulated and incinerator operations were monitored, whilst emissions were collected and measured under controlled conditions.
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Informal waste-pickers in developing economies collect up to 40 per cent of the recyclable material from thewastestreamas a result of an income-generating strategy.
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Forced by these - in cross-national comparison - farreaching obligations, peak associations of industry negotiated an exemption scheme for the largest and most problematicwastestream, used sales packaging.
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The recycled amount of glass packaging going into thewastestreamhas increased since 1998.
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What proportion of the currentwastestreamwould fall into that category?
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We do measure local authority recycling and composting as a percentage of thewastestream.
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The funds would more properly be invested in dealing with thewastestream.
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We want to prevent significant amounts of mercury entering thewastestream.
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It is a very complexwastestreamthat includes several hazardous substances.
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Widening thewastestreamwould render that method of dealing with waste less appropriate.
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That forms a very large proportion of the householdwastestream.
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They will be able to keep back waste from thewastestreamto recycle.
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Many of you mentioned that this is the fastest-growingwastestream.
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Thewastestreamcomes into that facility, directly collected from individual houses.
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There is no simple answer; the answer differs for eachwastestream.
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The problem is enormous, and we must stem thewastestream.
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Thatwastestreamis, in some cases, cheaper than landfilling that metal.
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