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COMMERCIAL COMPOSTING: The process of composting for businesses, such as restaurants, hospitals, farms, or anywhere that food is made, processed or served. Food & garden scraps collected by an industrial hauler (like a big dumptruck) are put into a giant tumbler where they biodegrade.
COMPOST: Fertilizer made from recycled food & garden scraps.
COMPOSTING: a way of recycling organic matter. At home, food scraps may be placed in a backyard compost pile or put into a variety of compost bins, where they will decompose.
e-WASTE: discarded electronic equipment, such as televisions, computers, printers, cell phones, monitors, or anything with a circuit board. e-waste is classified as "household hazardous waste" by the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Garbage that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases, or sludges. They can be commercial products, like cleaning fluids or pesticides, or the by-products of manufacturing processes. Toxic stuff in your house is known as household hazardous waste, and can include CFL lightbulbs, computers, old TVs, paints, & cleaning fluids.
RECYCLING: A process whereby used material, such as glass, aluminum, plastic, paper, fabric or food waste, is chemically or mechanically broken down, milled or melted it into something resembling the original state, so it can be recreated as a new product. (more definitions to come!)
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