Meanings
nounwastestream (plural wastestreams)
plural wastestreams
- The flow of waste materials from source to destination.
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)1 more example
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
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