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| 1982 || General || Organization (for-profit) || [[w:Waste Management (corporation)|Waste Management inc]] becomes the world’s largest waste disposal company, with more than US$1 billion in sales.<ref>{{cite web |title=GOING FROM WASTE COLLECTION TO WASTE MANAGEMENT |url=https://www.wm.com/us/en/about-us/our-story |website=wm.com |accessdate=28 April 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}

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| 1983 || General || Publication || ''{{w|Waste Management & Research}}'' launches as a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of waste management.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Resource efficiency and waste management: the science challenge |doi=10.1177/0734242X12468411 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0734242X12468411}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}

| 2010 || {{w|Solid waste}} || [[W:waste picker|Waste picking]] (statistics) || A study estimates that there are 1.5 million waste pickers in India alone at this time.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chaturvedi|first=Bharati|title=Mainstreaming Waste Pickers and the Informal Recycling Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste|journal=Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper|year=2010}}</ref> || {{w|India}}

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| 2010–2012 || {{w|Biowaste}} || Program launch || {{w|Miniwaste}} launches as a European project operated from January 2010 to December 2012, designed to "bring bio-waste back to life". The project endeavors to demonstrate that it is possible to significantly reduce the amount of [[w:bio-waste|organic waste]] at the source in a sustainable way, and to monitor actions for waste reduction in an efficient manner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miniwaste Guide |url=http://www.acrplus.org/images/project/Miniwaste/Miniwaste-guidance-document.pdf |website=acrplus.org |accessdate=27 April 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Europe}}

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