WASTE
The Collection, Fractioning, Conditioning, Recycling or Dumping of Wastes.

WASTE is an unmoderated mailing list, proposed to provide a forum for a serious discussion by people involved with collecting, fractioning, dumping, conditioning and recycling wastes or people which treat them, so that they can reused for a different purpose, as well as by people, who are confronted with the dangers of wastes in everyday life (e.g. negative effects on the soil, water, air and the seas). The term "waste" has been chosen instead of a more specific description (such as recycling or dumping) since this is the usual description for departements of administrations, non governmental organisations and enterprises.

The list is intended to assist governments, NGOs, environmentalists and scientists in the acquisition of waste-related information as well as serving as an informative arena on the many different world wide techniques of conditioning, recycling and reusing wastes.

Specific topics may include but are not limited to:

• the many different types of wastes and their effect on the ecosystems in the soil, the rivers, the atmosphere and the seas and oceans
• industrial and municipal solid waste (domestic refuse)
• dumping (nowadays or in the past) of toxic wastes in landfill sites
• sealing and watertightening of landfill sites and underground dumping sites
• different world-wide skills and techniques of conditioning, recycling and reusing wastes and other waste management methods
• environmental impact of waste treating plants and landfill sites
• pros and cons of waste combustion and the rank of its spent air
• energy production as thermal recycling of wastes (waste to energy)
• specific problems of transport of hazardous wastes and waste oils
• the effect of "waste-loss" on the seas and oceans
• practicable collection systems
• wastewater and sludge use, compostable materials
• reuse of tires, waste-paper, packings, etc.
• hazards of waste batteries, neon tubes, refrigerator-liquid, synthetic products, etc.

Archives of WASTE can be found at on the WWW site (linked above).

This list is moderated, owned and/or managed by:
Wolfgang Bujatti sea-life@pacific-ocean.com

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