Agricultural Waste

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-000807",
  "term": "Agricultural Waste",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Poultry and livestock manure, and residual materials in liquid or solid form generated from the production and marketing of poultry, livestock, furbearing animals, and their products. Also includes grain, vegetable, and fruit harvest residue.\n\n2. Refers to solid waste that is generated by the rearing of animals or the production and harvest of crops or trees. (Sullivan, 1993)\n\n3. Poultry and livestock manure, and residual materials in liquid or solid form generated from the production and marketing of poultry, livestock or fur-bearing animals; also includes grain, vegetable, and fruit harvest residue.\n\n4. Vegetative agricultural materials such as nut and grain hulls and chaff (e.g., almond, walnut, peanut, rice, and wheat), bagasse, orchard prunings, corn stalks, coffee bean hulls and grounds, and other vegetative waste materials generated as a result of agricultural operations.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms",
    "Measuring Recycling Guidance Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "40 CFR 62.14840 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/agricultural-waste/"
}