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Human values

Wastage

Wastage

Wastefulness
Waste
Wasted
Wastes
Wasteful

Broader

Restoration-Destruction

Possession-Loss

Improvement-Impairment

Expensiveness-Cheapness

Problem

Unsustainable energy consumption

Unsafe hazardous waste disposal

Underutilized agricultural wastes

Toxic waste smuggling

Shortage of waste landfill sites

Marine dumping of wastes

Inadequate management of refuse

Excessive governmental spending

Educational wastage

Disposal of packaging waste

Water pollution from fish production

Waste of resources

Waste of non-renewable resources

Waste of human resources

Wastage of highly skilled personnel in the routine maintenance of complex systems

Unnecessary personal consumption

Undercapitalized waste use schemes

Radioactive wastes

Plastic pollution of coastal zones

Plastic pollution

Misuse of agricultural resources for production of animal feed

Intractable waste

Insufficient recycling of materials

Ineffectiveness of foreign aid

Industrial waste water pollutants

Industrial air emissions

Inadequate waste incineration

Inadequate packaging of food products

Inadequate disposal of hospital waste

Illicit discharge of dangerous substances

Hazardous wastes

Wastage of food

Environmental hazards of decommissioned nuclear power plants

Electronic waste

Dumping radioactive substances

Dumping of consumer waste products

Domestic waste water pollutants

Criminal offences against the environment

Corruption and mismanagement of foreign aid

Competitive development of new weapons

Wasted woman power

Wasted waiting time

Waste disposal in deep wells

Unutilized fish by-products

Unused livestock waste

Unreliable garbage pick-up

Pig-waste pollution

Inefficient use of educational resources

Inadequate waste treatment

Energy inefficient lifestyles

Strategy

Recycling water

Recycling materials

Disposing of industrial wastes

Using treated waste water for agriculture

Stopping ocean dumping

Shifting from energy-intensive consumption

Reducing waste at source

Reducing loss and waste of food during handling

Reducing industrial water pollution

Reducing amount of electronic scrap

Reducing amount of consumer waste

Recycling plastics

Recycling organic wastes

Recycling nutrients in urine

Recycling agricultural waste

Recovering energy from wastes

Providing incentives for waste reuse and recycling

Providing ideas for recycling household items

Providing financial assistance for hazardous waste emergencies

Providing environmental infrastructure for human settlements

Providing education on hazardous waste management in government and industry

Providing education materials on effects of hazardous waste

Preparing health criteria on hazardous waste prevention

Monitoring illegal traffic in hazardous waste at the regional level

Modernizing sanitary facilities

Managing urban wastes

Managing plastic wastes

Managing organic wastes

Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste

Improving solid waste management

Improving hazardous waste management programmes to meet health and environment norms

Improving hazardous waste management

Implementing code of practice on transboundary movements of radioactive waste

Harmonizing transport of dangerous goods

Expanding knowledge resources on health implications of hazardous wastes

Ensuring sustainable personal consumption

Ensuring safe management of radioactive wastes

Dumping hazardous wastes

Developing criteria for fishing practices to minimize waste and by-catch

Developing conventions on transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Developing biotechnology for waste treatment

Decreasing waste packaging

Creating domestic waste recycling schemes

Complying with international guidelines in hazardous waste agreements

Banning exports of radioactive waste to countries which prohibit their importation

Banning disposal of low level radioactive waste at sea

Assisting waste and recycling in the informal sector

Assessing health and environmental risks of hazardous waste

Adopting laws to prevent the illegal export or import of hazardous waste

Using variable pricing for waste management at the consumer level

Using surface disposal sites for wastes

Using intermediate stores for wastes

Using criteria for safe management of solid waste

Urging industry to publish information on their management of hazardous waste

Urging countries to dispose of their own waste in their own territory

Upgrading status and skills of managers in waste management agencies

Treating wastes

Treating waste with chemical processes

Treating waste water for safe reuse

Treating waste by incineration

Treating waste biologically

Treating industrial wastes at source

Transferring technology for safe management and disposal of radioactive waste

Training in waste reuse and recycling for urban managers

Training in pollution control, waste treatment and disposal technologies

Training in monitoring and controlling pollution caused by waste

Testing waste water contamination

Teaching benefits and civic duty for waste reuse and recycling at school

Taking measures for environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in developing countries

Supporting waste reuse in small communities

Supporting national programmes to monitor and control hazardous wastes

Supporting investment in waste reuse and recycling

Supporting international codes for the safe management and disposal of radioactive waste

Supporting industry training programmes on waste management

Studying health impact of radioactive waste disposal

Strengthening research centres on hazardous waste management

Strengthening research capacities for waste management

Strengthening national capacity for safe treatment and disposal of waste

Strengthening international guidelines for the safe reuse of waste

Strengthening developing country capacity to manage waste from nuclear programmes

Strengthening cradle-to-grave environmental impact assessment of hazardous waste

Strengthening cooperation on monitoring effects of hazardous waste management

Storing nuclear waste in ocean wells

Storing intractable waste

Storing hazardous wastes

Setting waste management goals

Setting up tracking systems for movements of hazardous waste

Setting up information systems to detect illegal traffic in hazardous waste

Setting national standards for industrial effluents and solid wastes

Separating components of urban solid waste

Scheduling accumulated waste disposal

Running residential waste underground

Reviewing management of solid wastes and sewage

Returning radioactive waste to the supplier for safe storage or disposal

Respecting decisions of other countries on safe management of radioactive waste

Researching safe management and disposal of high-level radioactive waste

Researching management of hazardous waste

Researching impact of waste minimization on consumers

Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel

Reporting on key aspects of waste management and disposal

Regulating transboundary movement and disposal of waste

Reducing wastage in energy distribution

Reducing production of intractable waste

Reducing organic waste content in landfill

Reducing methane emissions from landfill sites

Reducing food waste

Reducing domestic waste water pollutants

Reducing amount of wastewater

Reducing amount of wasted woman power

Reducing amount of wasted waiting time

Reducing amount of wasted time

Reducing amount of wasted foreign aid

Reducing amount of wasted energy resources

Reducing amount of waste of resources on armaments research

Reducing amount of waste of resources invested in obsolete armaments

Reducing amount of waste gases

Reducing amount of wastage of development aid

Reducing amount of wastage in governmental budgets and appropriations

Reducing amount of undercapitalized waste use schemes

Reducing amount of solid wastes

Reducing amount of organic wastes

Reducing amount of nuclear waste

Reducing amount of liquid wastes

Reducing amount of impurities in waste water

Reducing amount of hazardous waste for disposal

Reducing amount of educational wastage

Reducing amount of dangerous waste

Reducing amount of agricultural waste products

Recycling special wastes

Recycling packaging

Recycling municipal waste water and solid waste

Recycling industrial wastes

Recycling animal waste products

Recovering energy from domestic waste

Reclaiming land with solid waste

Raising standards of waste treatment

Publishing information on companies which generate hazardous waste

Providing waste management information to global information systems

Providing training on low-cost waste collection and disposal options

Providing public information on waste issues

Providing public information on hazardous waste issues

Providing incentives to local authorities to recycle wastes

Providing incentives to improve the marketability of recyclable wastes

Providing emergency waste disposal

Providing adequate waste processing

Protesting against packaging waste

Prohibiting dumping of hazardous wastes

Prohibiting dumping food products as waste

Producing consumer waste

Preventing water related disease transmission from waste water irrigation

Preventing waste

Preventing production of hazardous wastes

Preventing illegal international traffic in hazardous wastes

Preserving human resources

Preparing waste minimization guidelines

Preparing inventories in developing countries on hazardous waste production

Preparing guidelines on waste management for unserved low-income areas

Preparing environmental guidelines for safe discharge of waste

Preparing best practice guides for waste recycling

Preaching religion

Planning and constructing of new waste treatment facilities

Overcoming barriers to waste trade

Organizing household refuse pick-up

Monitoring industrial waste water pollutants

Monitoring dumping of consumer waste products

Monitoring dumping food products as waste

Monitoring domestic waste water pollutants

Monitoring compliance violations of hazardous waste export/import laws

Monitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastes

Minimizing generation of radioactive waste

Maximizing waste reuse

Marketing compost

Managing wastes

Managing toxic waste dumps

Landfilling wastes

Investing part of waste disposal cost in waste minimization

Investigating potentially hazardous products wastes

Integrating waste management with other basic services

Integrating waste management

Installing waste treatment systems

Informing about techniques for the safe disposal of waste

Industrializing waste

Increasing support for hazardous waste research in developing countries

Increasing public participation in hazardous waste management

Increasing public involvement in the collection of waste

Increasing international cooperation centres on hazardous waste management

Increasing government / industry cooperation on waste minimization

Incorporating waste minimization strategies in national development plans

Including waste minimization principles and practices in school curricula

Including waste minimization measures in procurement policies

Including resource recovery in local authority waste management plans

Including resource needs, waste management and conservation in settlement policy

Incinerating wastes

Improving waste monitoring technology

Improving training on prevention and control of hazardous waste health risks

Improving operation and maintenance of waste treatment facilities

Improving national waste management and control policies

Improving national incentives for waste management

Improving national capabilities for monitoring wastes

Improving institutional capacity on waste management planning and service delivery

Improving hazardous waste institutions

Improving current waste reuse operations

Improving coordination of waste management programmes in the United Nations system

Improving coordination of policy on hazardous waste

Improving capacity to assess hazardous waste risks

Improving capacities to monitor the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes

Implementing waste recycling programmes

Implementing waste management policies for waste reuse and recycling

Implementing international conventions on hazardous waste

Identifying low-cost options for waste management

Identifying best available technology for hazardous waste management

Identifying and preparing profiles on hazardous wastes

Halting bureaucratic waste

Generating electricity from organic wastes

Generating biogas for fuel

Funding research on waste reuse and recycling

Finding waste management solutions for densely populated areas and small islands

Financing waste management services in deprived areas

Financing waste disposal

Facilitating transfer of waste reuse and recycling technology

Facilitating transfer of waste reduction technology

Facilitating transfer of waste management technology

Facilitating transfer of industrial waste treatment technology

Extending waste management services to the unserved urban poor

Expanding waste management services to unserved areas

Expanding waste collection and disposal services

Expanding research on environmentally sound management of hazardous waste

Expanding public participation in solid waste management

Expanding public information on waste minimization

Expanding international information exchange on hazardous waste

Expanding information networks on clean technology and waste minimization

Expanding hazardous waste research in developing countries

Exchanging information on illegal transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Evaluating effectiveness of waste recycling techniques

Establishing regulations requiring environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes

Establishing inventories of hazardous waste

Establishing international clearing house for information on waste management and disposal

Establishing hazardous waste treatment centres

Establishing facilities in each country to handle its own hazardous wastes

Establishing exchange programmes for waste management staff

Establishing environmentally sound land-based waste disposal alternatives to sea dumping

Establishing databases on populations exposed to hazardous waste

Ensuring safe export of hazardous waste

Ensuring military applies environmental norms for hazardous waste treatment

Ensuring full cost recovery from waste generators

Ensuring environmentally sound waste processing

Ensuring environmentally safe storage sites for radioactive waste

Ensuring compatibility of agreements on hazardous waste

Encouraging waste

Emphasizing waste prevention and minimization in waste management programmes

Eliminating disease-breeding waste

Educating about national hazardous waste management

Dumping toxic waste

Disposing of wastes

Disposing of waste in salt mines

Disposing of local sewer wastes

Disposing of household refuse

Disposing of hazardous waste

Developing waste monitoring methodology

Developing solid waste disposal technologies

Developing plans for the management and disposal of human waste

Developing national goals for the sustainable management of wastes

Developing laws for waste management

Developing industry-based institutions on hazardous waste handling

Developing guidelines for identifying hazardous waste

Developing effective technologies for treating waste

Developing community detection of traffic in hazardous wastes

Developing brown field sites

Developing appropriate methods for identifying hazardous wastes

Designing waste disposal areas

Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites

Converting sewage waste into compost

Converting garden waste into compost

Controlling transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Constructing waste stabilization ponds

Constructing modern public toilets

Conducting training on hazardous waste management technology in developing countries

Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries

Conducting research on critical problems of waste management and disposal

Conducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industry

Conditioning radioactive waste

Compiling data on waste management

Combining treatment/disposal facilities for hazardous waste in small and medium-sized enterprises

Collecting wastes

Collecting organic waste

Collecting discarded objects

Cleaning up pollution

Carrying out pilot projects to demonstrate waste minimization practices and technologies

Campaigning on solid waste management

Campaigning against unnecessary outdoor lighting

Campaigning against the export of toxic materials

Campaigning against hazardous waste disposal

Building waste disposal system

Banning hazardous waste exports to countries lacking safe handling capability

Assessing national programmes for waste reuse and recycling

Assessing hazardous waste management needs of small and medium-sized enterprises

Assessing environmental impact of waste

Assessing environmental effects of national waste management policies

Assessing effectiveness of waste minimization measures and technologies

Assessing effectiveness of existing information systems on hazardous waste

Assessing approaches for extending waste management services

Appropriating waste management technologies

Applying measures for waste disposal costs to be paid by the waste generators

Applying hygienic waste disposal

Analysing waste

Adopting sustainable sanitation policy

Adopting safety standards for hazardous waste management

Adopting policies for the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste

Adopting national programmes to reduce hazardous waste

Accumulating nuclear reactor waste

Abstaining from integrating solid waste management

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Societal problems » Waste

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 2, 2024