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waste management

generation, prevention, characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse and residual disposition of wastes
Class type of: sustainability and environmental management, energy and environmental engineering Q180388
waste management

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
industry, process, academic discipline, safety[4][5][6]
Subclass of
sustainability and environmental management, energy and environmental engineering
Part of
European waste hierarchy[7]
Different from
sanitary engineering, Waste prevention: a misunderstood concept[18][19]
Has part(s)
waste minimisation, waste reuse, recycling, mismanagement[13][14][15][16]
Industry
waste management industry[8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
P10203
2311
P14864
jatehuolto
P14968
cigar, Juan Antonio Rios
Practiced by
recyclable material collector, garbage collector, Deponiewart, waste manager, waste management industry[20][21][22][23][24]
Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator
Target 12.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals
Said to be the same as
waste management industry, waste disposal, waste recycling, waste treatment[9][10][11][12]
Significant environmental impact
health[25]
Topic has template
Wikidata item[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en waste disposal en waste management ar تخلص من النفايات ar إدارة المخلفات ar إدارة النفايات cs nakládání s odpady cs ukládání odpadu cs odpadové hospodářství da renovation de Abfallwirtschaft de Abfallentsorgung de Abfallbehandlung el διαχείριση αποβλήτων es Gestión de desechos es Gestion de residuos es Gestion de desechos es gestión de residuos fa مدیریت پسماند fi jätteiden käsittely fi jätteenkäsittely
🔖 Identifiers · 47
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85112316
GND ID
4000107-6
OpenAlex ID
C548081761, C3020383963, C2986463069
ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
401106
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294943730
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
78196
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300191233, 300055237
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/4180
BBC News topic ID
c7rww4n1p7kt
BBC Things ID
a8676820-b684-46fc-ba54-0fb578aad585
BabelNet ID
00037292n
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
আবর্জনা_ব্যবস্থাপনা
Show all 47 identifiers +35
Basisklassifikation
58.53
Curlie ID
Business/Environment/Waste_Management/
Die Tageszeitung tag ID
t5322707
ESCO skill ID
b09df20a-51b9-438d-9745-696b02156470
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/waste-disposal-system
EuroVoc ID
1158
Freebase ID
/m/01dx90
GEMET ID
9062
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
gestio-de-residus
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0518615
Harper's tag
refuse-disposal-industry, waste-disposal
History of Modern Biomedicine ID
waste-management
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
waste-storage, waste-management, solid-waste-management, waste-disposal
KBpedia ID
WasteManagement
Lex ID
renovation
Library of Congress Classification
HD4482-HD4485
MeSH descriptor ID
D018505
MeSH tree code
N06.850.780.200.800.800.900, N06.850.860.510.900
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
548081761, 2909526029
Museum-digital tag ID
90444
NALT ID
21k (9.3k–42k, n=3)
NDL Authority ID
00932471, 00562803
NL CR AUT ID
ph115563, ph166370, ph1278580
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007529448005171
Quora topic ID
Waste-Management
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
13325-0
SVKKL authority ID
0437391-likvidace-odpadu, h0003566-odpadove-hospodarstvi
Topic's main category
Category:Waste management
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
93464
UMLS CUI
C0242716
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept9586
VerbaAlpina ID
C18960
XXI Secolo ID
la-gestione-dei-rifiuti
YSO ID
6066
Yale LUX ID
concept/202acdb9-1fcf-4506-b636-cadad4e030a1

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🔗 Connections
← Industry 29
Engie, Veolia, civic amenity site, Paprec Group, Remondis, Rethmann, Sure We Can, TerraCycle +21 more
← Facet of 11
waste container, waste sorting, reuse, waste hierarchy, illegal dumping, remanufacturing, waste management in Armenia, Precycling +3 more
Has these parts 8
recycling, upcycling, waste collection, waste minimisation, downcycling, mechanical biological treatment, deposit-refund system, pay as you throw
← Field of work 8
exploding whale, SUEZ, Putrajaya Corporation, curator aquarum, Olumide Idowu, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, Leichtweiß-Institut, waste management industry
Subtypes 6
wastewater treatment, scuttling, high-level radioactive waste management, manure management, Secondary treatment, Resource recovery
Instance of 4
safety, academic discipline, industry, process
Practiced by 3
garbage collector, recyclable material collector, waste management industry
Has part(s) 2
recycling, waste minimisation
← Has cause 2
plastic pollution, marine plastic pollution
← Has use 2
garbage chute, Automated Vacuum Collection
Belongs to 1
environmental impact of the coal industry
Different from 1
sanitary engineering
Industry 1
waste management industry
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Said to be the same as 1
waste management industry
Significant environmental impact 1
health
Topic's main category 1
Category:Waste management
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Waste management by country
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Waste management
← Different from 1
sanitary engineering
← Field of this occupation 1
recyclable material collector
← Handled, mitigated, or managed by 1
waste
← Has organizational division 1
TEAM2 ecotechnology cluster
← Interested in 1
Kano State Environmental Planning and Protection Agency
← Product or material produced 1
Acea
← Said to be the same as 1
waste management industry
← Studied by 1
exploding whale
← Uses 1
landfill
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Summary

waste management is an industry[1]. It is a type of sustainability and environmental management[2] and energy and environmental engineering[3].

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

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Ticker symbol WM low0.612 independent sources

evidence “Waste Management (NYSE:WM) yields 1.78% on an annual dividend of $3.54 per share, with the current quarterly at 94 cents and an annualized forward dividend of $3.78.” 247wallst.com · read source

Industry recycling low0.612 independent sources

evidence “Waste Management is the largest solid waste and recycling company in North America.” prnewswire.com · read source

Related Entities

health Leichtweiß-Institut Rutte Recycling

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · OBCPO1 · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Library of Congress authority ID: sh85112316"
  2. 3d ago · OBCPO1 · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14968 → cigar, Juan Antonio Rios
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Library of Congress authority ID: sh85112316"
  3. 19d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'bg', 'bjn', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en',
    Sitelink count → 66
    P14968 → cigar, Juan Antonio Rios
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14968: Q1576, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291586|batch #291586]]"
  4. 7w ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → jatehuolto
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14864: jatehuolto, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789688721844"
  5. 11w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → C18960
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: C18960, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  6. 12w ago · Estopedist1 · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → refuse-disposal-industry, waste-disposal
    SVKKL authority ID → 0437391-likvidace-odpadu, h0003566-odpadove-hospodarstvi
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q12365719 */"
  7. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0437391-likvidace-odpadu, h0003566-odpadove-hospodarstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0437391-likvidace-odpadu, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  8. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → —
    Topic has template → Wikidata item
    Instance of → industry, process, academic discipline +1
    Said to be the same as → waste management industry, waste disposal, waste recycling +1
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ YSO ID: 6066, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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