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wastestream en · NOUN

Etymology

From waste + stream.

Meanings

1. The flow of waste materials from source to destination.
   • Pollutant parameters found in the "common metals" subcategory of raw wastestream from sampled plants are shown in Table 4.4. 2008, Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Yung-Tse Hung, Advances in Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment, page 146:
   • To obtain an estimate of the distribution of radwaste volume into wastestreams, the following assumptions were made: […] 1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR. (issue 1137, page 43)

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