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Waste management is all those activities and action required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.〔(Glossary of Environment Statistics ) : Series F, No. 67 / Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, United Nations. New York: UN, 1997.〕 This includes amongst other things, collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework the relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling etc. The term usually relates to all kinds of waste, whether generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, or other human activities,〔 including municipal (residential, institutional, commercial), agricultural, and special (health care, household hazardous wastes, sewage sludge). Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management practices are not uniform among countries (developed and developing nations); regions (urban and rural area), and sectors (residential and industrial).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Waste Management Practices )〕 ==Central principles of waste management== There are a number of concepts about waste management which vary in their usage between countries or regions. Some of the most general, widely used concepts include: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「waste management」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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