Glossary of Waste Terms
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L
- Lagoon
- Lake Management
- Lake Restoration
- Lake Stewardship
- Landfill (Sanitary Landfill)
- Landfill Gas
- Landfill Mining And Reclamation
- Large Quantity Generators
- Lateral Expansion
- Lateral Pipe
- Leachate
- Leachate Collection System
- Leachate Treatment System
- Leaching
- LeGrand Rating System
- Liability Limit
- Lift
- Lime
- Limnetic Community
- Liner
- Linerboard
- Littoral Community
- LLDPE
- Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
- Low Grade Paper
- Low-level Waste
- Lower Explosive Limit
- Macro organism
- Macrorouting (Route Balancing)
- Magnetic Separation
- Mass-burn System
- Materials Balance
- Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
- Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
- MDPE
- Mechanical Separation
- Medical Waste
- Medical Waste Incinerator
- MERLA
- Mesophyllic Bacteria
- Mesotrophic
- Methane
- Microorganism
- Microrouting
- Midden
- Milk Runs
- Mill Broke
- Mineral Waste
- Mineralization
- Minerals
- Minimum Recycled Content Laws
- Mobile Source
- Modular Incinerator
- Moisture Content
- Monitoring Well
- Mulch
- Mulching
- Multi-aquifer Well
- Municipal (Project) Revenue Bond
- Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
- Municipal Solid Waste Stream
- Mutagen
- N-P-K
- National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- National Association for Plastic Recovery
- National Drinking Water Priorities List
- National Environmental Policy Act
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- National Polystyrene Recycling Council
- National Primary Drinking Water Regulations
- National Priorities List (NPL)
- National Recycling Coalition
- Natural Cycle
- Natural Liner
- New Scrap
- Newsprint
- NIMBY (Not In My Backyard)
- Nitrogen Draft
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Non Ferrous Scrap Metals
- Non-point Source
- Nonrenewable Resources
- Nontoxic
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Nutrients
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