Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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laboratory animal studies

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Investigations using animals as surrogates for humans.

A shallow, artificial treatment pond where sunlight, bacterial action, and oxygen work to purify wastewater; a stabilization pond. An aerated lagoon is a treatment pond that uses oxygen to speed up ...

land application

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Discharge of wastewater onto the ground for treatment or reuse. (See: irrigation.)

land ban

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Phasing out of land disposal of most untreated hazardous wastes, as mandated by the 1984 RCRA amendments.

land disposal restrictions

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Rules that require hazardous wastes to be treated before disposal on land to destroy or immobilize hazardous constituents that might migrate into soil and ground water.

land farming (of waste)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A disposal process in which hazardous waste deposited on or in the soil is degraded naturally by microbes.

landfills

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. Sanitary landfills are disposal sites for non-hazardous solid wastes spread in layers, compacted to the smallest practical volume, and covered by material applied at the end of each operating day. ...