Household Waste (Domestic Waste): Solid waste, composed of garbage and rubbish, which normally originates from residential, private households, or apartment buildings. Domestic waste may contain a significant amount of toxic or hazardous waste from improperly discarded pesticides, paints, batteries, and cleaners.

 

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Household Waste (Domestic Waste): Solid waste, composed of garbage and rubbish, which normally originates from residential, private households, or apartment buildings. Domestic waste may contain a significant amount of toxic . . . View Full Definition

Television Households: An estimate of the number of households that have one or more television sets.

Solid Waste: As defined under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, any solid, semi-solid, liquid, or contained gaseous materials discarded from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operatio . . . View Full Definition

Viewers Per Viewing Household (VPVH): The number of viewing persons per tuning household: usually reported as 'per 1000 viewing households.'

Waste: An improper use or an abuse of a property by a possessor who holds less than fee ownership, such as a tenant, life tenant, mortgagor or vendee. Such waste ordinarily impairs the value of the . . . View Full Definition

Waste Treatment Pond: A shallow lagoon or similar storage facility, often man-made, used to treat liquid agricultural wastes, particularly liquid manure from livestock production farms, through the interaction of . . . View Full Definition

Waste Pipe And Vent: Plumbing plastic pipe that carries waste water to the municipal sewage system.

Waste Area: (also 'waste bunker') a relatively unmaintained area (usually, but not always, with a surface of pebbles, sand or similar) that is not considered a hazard

Plumbing Waste Line: Plastic pipe used to collect and drain sewage waste.

National Priorities List For Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites: (National Priorities List or NPL) EPA's list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States. The NPL is updated on a regular basis.