waste management
The collection, transportation, processing, recycling, or disposal of waste materials, especially to reduce environmental harm.
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IELTS use
Often appears in task 1 to describe recycling rates, landfill use, or waste treatment methods.
Examples
- The graph shows improvements in waste management over two decades.
- Effective waste management can reduce pollution significantly.
- The table compares waste management practices in three countries.
- Waste management costs have increased due to stricter regulations.
Collocations
- waste management system
- The city's waste management system handles 10,000 tonnes daily.
- improve waste management
- Many municipalities aim to improve waste management efficiency.
- waste management practices
- The data outlines different waste management practices.
- waste management facility
- A new waste management facility was built near the industrial zone.
Word family
- Noun
- management
- Verb
- manage
- Adjective
- manageable
Paraphrases
- refuse disposal: More formal; often used in technical writing.
- trash treatment: Less formal but clear in some contexts.
- solid waste processing: Specific to non‑liquid waste; useful for charts on recycling.
Common mistakes
- waste managment to waste management. Spelling error: 'management' has two 'e's.
- the waste management are effective to the waste management is effective. Subject-verb agreement: 'management' is singular.
- waste manages to waste management. 'Manages' is a verb; the noun phrase is 'waste management'.