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Descriptor English: Waste Management
Descriptor Spanish: Administración de Residuos
Descriptor gestión de residuos
Entry term(s) administración de residuos
administración de residuos sólidos
gestión de residuos sólidos
gestión integrada de residuos sólidos
manejo de residuos sólidos
Scope note: Eliminación, procesamiento, control, reciclaje y reutilización de los residuos sólidos, líquidos y gaseosos de plantas, seres humanos y otros animales y organismos. Incluye el control dentro de un sistema ecológico para mantener un entorno habitable.
Descriptor Portuguese: Gerenciamento de Resíduos
Descriptor French: Gestion des déchets
Entry term(s): Management, Waste
Managements, Waste
Waste Managements
Tree number(s): N06.850.780.200.800.800.900
N06.850.860.510.900
SP4.707.368.300
VS4.001.001.005
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018505
Scope note: Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
Previous Indexing: Refuse Disposal (1966-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
DeCS ID: 31974
Unique ID: D018505
NLM Classification: WA 778
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/06/07
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Waste Management - Preferred
Concept UI M0027752
Scope note Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment.
Preferred term Waste Management
Entry term(s) Management, Waste
Managements, Waste
Waste Managements



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