Converse of object

• recycle: New methods of reducing, re-using and recycling waste are required if the reliance on landfill is to change.

• minimize: For most businesses, financial savings can readily be realized by reducing energy and water use and minimizing waste in simple ways.

• dump: According to The Macmillan Encyclopedia 2001 ' it campaigns primarily against nuclear power, dumping nuclear waste, and commercial whaling.

• lay: For many years, the World outside the Vale was desolate, laid waste by the armies of the Night.

Adjective modifier

• radioactive: This would be the first time a submarine has been dismantled with some of the most radioactive wastes being stored at Rosyth.

• hazardous: You can also contact us for information on hazardous waste like asbestos.

• municipal: On average, every EU citizen produces 550kg of municipal waste per year and this is growing.

• biodegradable: The EU Landfill Directive will require an increasing proportion of biodegradable waste to be diverted to other disposal methods.

• toxic: A koi pond should be able to stand-alone for hours without danger of quick suffocation or toxic waste build up.

• nuclear: Ann is a member of the London Nuclear Trains Working Group, opposing the transportation of nuclear waste through Bromley Boro.

Modifies a noun

• disposal: A large waste disposal depot is beside the canal about half way down with a useful refuse skip nearby.

• minimisation: There are two distinct strands to the diaper waste minimisation scheme.

• management: What have you learned about working in the waste management industry.

• stream: From 2001/02 estates PFI contract will measure all waste streams.

• bin: What opinion on waste bin in library, how stop overflowing?

• recycling: In May 2003 the contract was confirmed and work commenced on the building of a new £ 30million waste recycling facility in Leicester.

Noun used with modifier

• household: They also compost organic household waste for use in the garden.

• packaging: Your obligation is based upon the packaging that you handle not the packaging waste in your own bins.

• garden: Don't place garden waste in either your green or black bin.

• demolition: The Civic Amenity sites will not accept trade, commercial, construction or demolition waste.