Dumping
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchDumping may refer to:
In economics
- Dumping (pricing policy) In economics, "dumping" can refer to any kind of predatory pricing. However, the word is now generally used only in the context of international trade law, where dumping is defined as the act of a manufacturer in one country exporting a product to another country at a price which is either below the price it charges in its home market or, in international trade, the pricing of a product below its cost of production
- Social dumping "Social dumping" is a term that is used to describe a temporary or transitory movement of labour, whereby employers use workers from one country or area in another country or area where the cost of labour is usually more expensive, thus saving money and potentially increasing profit, using transitory labour to save costs
- SUTA dumping, the avoidance of paying unemployment insurance taxes
In waste management
- Environmental dumping Environmental dumping is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws, or environmental laws that are not strictly enforced. The economic benefit of this practice is cheap disposal or recycling of waste without the economic, the shipping of waste to a country with lax environmental laws
- Ocean dumping Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally become afloat in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway. Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the centre of gyres and on coastlines, frequently washing aground, when it is known as beach litter, the deliberate disposal of waste at sea
In aircraft technology
- Fuel dumping,used to lighten the aircraft's weight in certain emergency situations
In mathematics
- Equivalent dumping coefficient, used in the calculation of the energy dispersed when a building moves
In medicine
- Gastric dumping syndrome Gastric dumping syndrome, or rapid gastric emptying is a condition where ingested foods bypass the stomach too rapidly and enter the small intestine largely undigested. It happens when the upper end of the small intestine, the jejunum, expands too quickly due to the presence of hyperosmolar[jargon] food from the stomach. "Early" dumping, when intestines fill too quickly with undigested food from the stomach
- Homeless dumping Homeless dumping is the practice of hospital employees or emergency workers releasing homeless patients on the streets instead of placing them into the custody of a relative or shelter or retaining them in a hospital where they may require expensive medical care. Many homeless people who have mental health problems can no longer find a place in a, medical workers releasing homeless patients on the streets
- Patient dumping, the refusal to treat people because of inability to pay or insufficient insurance
In music
- Dumpin', a 1999 album by hip-hop group "Psychopathic Rydas"
Other uses:
See also
- Dump
- Litter Throughout human history, people have disposed of unwanted materials onto streets, countrysides and remote places, unpunished. Prior to reforms within cities in the mid to late 1800s, sanitation was not a priority on governments' lists of things to do. Waste was disposed of by the roadside or in small local dumps. It was unsanitary for local
- Dumper (disambiguation)
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