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Yard Waste

The part of solid waste composed of grass clippings, leaves, twigs, branches, and other garden refuse.


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Yellow-Boy

Iron oxide flocculant (clumps of solids in waste or water); usually observed as orange-yellow deposits in surface streams with excess iron content. (See: floc, flocculation.)


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Yield

The quantity of water (expressed as a rate of flow or total quantity per year) that can be collected for a given use from surface or groundwater sources. 



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