GEMET
General
Multilingual
Environmental
Thesaurus
waste classification
Definition

The arrangement of unwanted materials left over from manufacturing processes or refuse from places of human or animal habitation into a variety of categories based on chemical and microbiological constituents or other common characteristics.

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Scope note

Scope note is not available.

Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/9053