Types of Waste

It is the collection, transport, processing, recycling, or disposal of waste materials.

• Waste Management

• Occupational Safety and Health

• Solid wastes

• Liquid Wastes

It is defined as any waste that is dry in form and is discarded as unwanted.

• Hazardous waste

• Non-hazardous waste

• Solid wastes

• Liquid Wastes

Elements of the discarded item are used again. 

• reduce

• reuse

• recycle

• recover

discards are separated into materials that may be incorporated into new products. 

• reduce

• reuse

• recycle

• recover

It is a written emergency procedures plan which describes what actions must be taken to minimize hazards from fires, explosions or unplanned releases of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents to air, soil or water.

• contingency plan

• OHS

• waste management

• emergency plan

Unsafe substances used commercially, industrially, agriculturally,  or economically. 

• Hazardous wastes

• Non-hazardous

• Solid wastes

• Liquid Wastes

aims to reduce, or avoid potential losses from hazards, assure prompt and appropriate assistance to victims of disaster,  and achieve rapid and effective recovery.    

• Waste Management

• Contingency Plan

• OHS

• Disaster Preparedness and Management

Separate the hazard from people, by marking the hazardous area, fitting screens or  putting up safety barriers  

• Safeguards

• Isolation

• Elimination

• Substitution

the immediate and rapid movement of people away from the threat or actual occurrence of a hazard.

• Safeguards

• Isolation

• Evacuation

• Substitution

to buy less and use less. 

• reuse

• recycle

• reduce

• recover