Refuse Disposal

"Refuse Disposal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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The discarding or destroying of garbage, sewage, or other waste matter or its transformation into something useful or innocuous.

Descriptor ID

D012037

MeSH Number(s)

N06.850.780.200.800.800.700

N06.850.860.510.900.600

Concept/Terms

Refuse Disposal

Waste Disposal, Solid

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Refuse Disposal".

Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Public Health Practice [N06.850.780]
Communicable Disease Control [N06.850.780.200]
Sanitation [N06.850.780.200.800]
Sanitary Engineering [N06.850.780.200.800.800]
Refuse Disposal [N06.850.780.200.800.800.700]
Sanitation [N06.850.860]
Sanitary Engineering [N06.850.860.510]
Waste Management [N06.850.860.510.900]
Refuse Disposal [N06.850.860.510.900.600]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Refuse Disposal" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Refuse Disposal" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 18 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003 and 2005 and 2007 and 2009 and 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	0	1	1
2003	0	2	2
2005	1	1	2
2007	0	2	2
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	1	2
2010	0	1	1
2012	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2018	1	1	2
2019	1	0	1
2021	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Refuse Disposal" by people in Profiles.

Food Waste Management Practices and Barriers to Progress in U.S. University Foodservice. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 05 27; 19(11).

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Organic loading on biochemical fractions degradation pattern during food waste bioevaporation. Waste Manag. 2021 Aug 01; 132:142-150.

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Pilot Evaluation of Aggregate Plate Waste as a Measure of Students' School Lunch Consumption. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2019 12; 119(12):2093-2098.

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Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Infants and Children in Haiti, 2015. Public Health Rep. 2019 Jan/Feb; 134(1):47-56.

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Using Publicly Available Data to Understand the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: Geospatial Distribution of Discarded Needles in Boston, Massachusetts. Am J Public Health. 2018 10; 108(10):1355-1357.

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Two-stage anaerobic fermentation process for bio-hydrogen and bio-methane production from pre-treated organic wastes. Bioresour Technol. 2018 Oct; 265:399-406.

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The municipal solid waste management of La Paz (Bolivia): Challenges and opportunities for a sustainable development. Waste Manag Res. 2018 Mar; 36(3):288-299.

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Co-gasification of biosolids with biomass: Thermogravimetric analysis and pilot scale study in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. Bioresour Technol. 2015 Jan; 175:51-8.

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Approaches to systematic assessment of environmental exposures posed at hazardous waste sites in the developing world: the Toxic Sites Identification Program. Environ Monit Assess. 2013 Feb; 185(2):1755-66.

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Our bulging medicine cabinets--the other side of medication nonadherence. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 28; 364(17):1591-3.

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