waste disposal

waste disposal,

n a removal of all potentially contaminated objects (e.g., objects soaked with saliva or blood) and placement in a secure site to prevent or decrease the risk of infection. See also sharps container.

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waste

1. gradual loss, decay, or diminution of bulk.

2. useless and effete material, unfit for further use within the organism.

3. to pine away or dwindle.

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waste disposal

techniques for disposing of a veterinary practice's, or abattoir or feedlot or milking shed wastes. By incineration, deep burial, washed away in a sewer as any other effluent or reclamation for industrial or agricultural use. Disposal of wastes from a veterinary practice or service has additional problems. There is a need for disposal of animal cadavers, kennel and pen wastes, tissue specimens, blood and milk and other samples. Much of the material is infected, some of it dangerous to humans, and therefore needs to be disposed of legally and systematically.

waste management system

planned, economic and conservationist program for the recycling and conservation of waste.

recycled waste

includes chicken litter, newsprint, sugar cane bagasse, fruit pomace, crude sewage, sewage sludge used as pasture topdressing and feed for farm animals, newsprint used as bedding for horses. See also recycled animal wastes.