disposal, or release of harmful chemicals to the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established its hierarchy of waste minimization approaches: reduce, recycle, and ...

“If you look at the waste management hierarchy, the best point of intervention is minimisation of waste. Before the waste even gets to the dump site, it has to be properly managed. So, we are ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other prominent environmental organizations like the U.N. Environment Programme use a framework called the waste management hierarchy that ranks ...