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Repositories for solid waste, including landfills and combustors intended for permanent containment or destruction of waste materials. Excludes transfer stations and composting facilities. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

Final placement or destruction of toxic, radioactive, or other wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental releases. Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep-well injection, ocean dumping, or incineration. …

A facility that destroys regulated medical waste. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

Regulated medical waste that has been ruined, torn apart, or mutilated through thermal treatment, melting, shredding, grinding, tearing, or breaking, so that it is no longer generally recognized as medical waste, but has not yet been treated (excludes compacted regulated medical waste). SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

The facility to which regulated medical waste is shipped for treatment and destruction, incineration, and/or disposal. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

term for microbes developed through biotechnology that can degrade specific toxic chemicals at their source in toxic waste dumps or in ground water. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

Prices whereby consumers use purchasing decisions to communicate to product manufacturers that they prefer environmentally sound products packaged with the least amount of waste, made from recycled or recyclable materials, and containing no hazardous substances. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

Deposition of raw or treated, filtered hazardous waste by pumping it into deep wells, where it is contained in the pores of permeable subsurface rock. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

Recyclable materials collection method in which individuals bring them to a designated collection site. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html

The biochemical decomposition of organic matter, resulting in partial gasification, liquefaction, and mineralization of pollutants. SOURCE: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/dterms.html