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Waste treatment

Waste treatment refers to the recovery, neutralisation and final disposal of waste. Operations with which the composition, structure or other property of generated waste is changed in order to facilitate the activities listed above is also regarded as waste treatment.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • Valid

Source organisation

  • EU

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