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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management
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... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management
Health Occupations > Environmental Health > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management
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Waste Management  

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Scope note

  • Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment.

History note

  • 95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018505

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