1.1.2.4 Waste

Definition: Worthless or useless by-products resulting social and economic processes, but not environmental processes. This includes all waste stored, managed, or processed by man. This does not include the processing and storage facilities for such waste, which appear under Tangible Reproducable Capital. This does not include any latent waste released into or present in the environment, which appears under Ecosystems Capacity. The framework organizes waste by source.

Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary

Waste Categories:

1.1.2.4.1 Nuclear Waste: Radioactive by-products resulting from fusion, fission, refinement, or processing of radioactive materials. This includes all solid and liquid radioactive wastes. This does not include the processing and storage facilities for such waste. This does not include any latent waste released into or present in the environment.

------1.1.2.4.1.1 Medical Nuclear Waste

------1.1.2.4.1.2 Military Nuclear Waste

------1.1.2.4.1.3 Mixed Nuclear and Hazardous Waste

------1.1.2.4.1.4 Power Plant Nuclear Waste

1.1.2.4.2 Solid, Liquid, and Gas Waste: Solid, liquid, or gaseous by-products resulting from human biological processes, manufacturing, materials processing, comsumption of goods, or any other human activity. This does not include the processing and storage facilities for such waste. This does not include any latent waste released into or present in the environment.

------1.1.2.4.2.1 Cement Kiln Dust Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.2 Construction Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.3 Industrial Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.4 Medical Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.5 Mining Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.6 Municipal Waste

------1.1.2.4.2.7 Oil and Gas Waste

1.1.2.4.3 Wastewater: By-products suspended or dissolved in water resulting from human biological processes, manufacturing, materials processing, or any other such activity. This does not include the processing and storage facilities for such waste. This does not include any latent waste released into or present in the environment.

------1.1.2.4.3.1 Industrial Wastewater

------1.1.2.4.3.2 Municipal Wastewater

1.1.2.1.2 Corporate Wealth: Assests minus debts; the net worth of a business after deducting all liabilities. Assets include money used or accumulated in business by an individual, partnership or corporation, material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth, and funds contributed to a business by the owners or stockholders. Debts include all finacial loans obligations, commitments, and leins. (Definition Source: None)

1.1.2.1.1 Individual Wealth: Assests minus debts; the net worth of an individual or family group after deducting all liabilities. Assets include money, such as bank accounts, bonds, stocks, etc, as well as personal property, such as cars and houses. Debts include all finacial loans, obligations, commitments, and leins. (Definition Source: None)

1.1.2.1.3 Public Wealth: Assests minus debts; the net worth of a local, state, or Federal government after deducting all liabilities. Assets include all money collected as taxes or raised as bonds as well as all public property, such as buildings, and land. Debts include all finacial loans, obligations, commitments, and leins. (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.1 Carbon Monoxide in Air: A very poisonous gas formed when carbon burns incompletely, as in the exhaust of automobile engines. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.2.1.1.2 Nitrous Oxides in Air: Those compounds in the atmosphere formed by a combination of nitrogen and oxygen (NOx). (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.3 Other Toxics in Air: Substances in the atmosphere that can kill or harm the health of living animals and/or plants. This includes the over 600 chemicals in the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory. (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.4 Ozone: A form of oxygen (O3) that results from photo-chemical reactions in the atmosphere. (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.5 Particulates in Air: Small particles of matter emitted into the atmosphere, such as dust, pollen and solid combustion products. (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.6 Radioactives in Air: All substances in the atmosphere that emit radiation. This includes both man-made substances such as waste from nuclear power plants and hospitals, as well as naturally occurring radioactive substances such as Radon. (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.7 Sulphur Oxides in Air: Those compounds in the atmosphere formed by a combination of sulphur and oxygen (SOX). (Definition Source: None)

1.2.1.1.8 Volatile Organic Compounds in Air: Easily evaporated compounds of or formed from living things. Typically these compounds originate from petroleum, coal tar, solvents, fuel and the manufacture of plastics. (Definition Source: None)