This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. German to English
  3. Environment & Ecology

KudoZ question not available

English translation: ready for incineration

17:19 Feb 18, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / Waste management
German term or phrase: ofenfertige Abfälle
From a price list for waste management services. The word "ofenfertig" appears several times - not "oven-ready", I would assume - unless it's waste turkeys from the Bernard Matthews bird flu disaster - but do we talk about "furnaces", "kilns", or some other word in a waste management context? And would e.g. "furnace-ready" sound right?
TIA!
John Bowden
Local time: 23:18
English translation:ready for incineration
Explanation:
We also maintain a 2,000 m3 covered storage area for packaged solid wastes ready for incineration, equipped with automated, computer monitored conveyers that transport wastes to the kiln. Further covered areas are provided for repackaging and re-handling a range of wastes prior to incineration. All drum storage and handling facilities are protected by foam deluge systems.

http://www.veoliaenvironmentalservices.co.uk/pages/pdfs/ves_...
Selected response from:

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 16:18
Grading comment
Thanks Kim!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +11ready for incineration
Kim Metzger
4ready for incineration
Johannes Gleim
4incinerable waste
Lancashireman


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +11
ready for incineration


Explanation:
We also maintain a 2,000 m3 covered storage area for packaged solid wastes ready for incineration, equipped with automated, computer monitored conveyers that transport wastes to the kiln. Further covered areas are provided for repackaging and re-handling a range of wastes prior to incineration. All drum storage and handling facilities are protected by foam deluge systems.

http://www.veoliaenvironmentalservices.co.uk/pages/pdfs/ves_...


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 16:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 162
Grading comment
Thanks Kim!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tim Jenkins
0 min
agree  Alan Johnson: @ John, we talk about incinerators.
3 mins
agree  Textklick: What I thought as I clicked on the question. I prefer waste in singular form- is this a U.K. thing?
6 mins
  -> No, I think we'd generally use waste in the singular form too. Thanks for the photos.
agree  Anton Baer
11 mins
agree  Mihaela Boteva
1 hr
agree  John Jory
1 hr
agree  Abigail Dahlberg (X)
3 hrs
agree  Claire Cox: or just waste for incineration; see www.safety.ed.ac.uk/resources/Radiation/GN009.shtm
5 hrs
agree  Lancashireman: It seems the problem was with ‘oven/furnace/kiln’ and that was solved in 4mins flat. ‘Ready for incineration wastes’ it is then.
6 hrs
agree  Steffen Walter
14 hrs
agree  Johannes Gleim: Same as me. But you was some moments quicker.
1 day 5 hrs
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ready for incineration


Explanation:
Incineration is the term used in material safety data sheets as proposed by the European directive 2001/58/EC.

Heterogeneous organic material as bagasse, tree barks, household trash are processed in blocs of dry remnants ready for incineration or gaseification in order to produce reusable energy on the one hand and on the other hand process them in juice, mash or recycled pulps in agriculture or agro-alimentary.
http://www.unido.org/userfiles/GaveauG/tial9.pdf

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 13 Min. (2007-02-18 17:32:53 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

As I had already translated several MSDS and has these directive on hand I am very confident.

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 00:18
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: What about 'Abfälle' (also part of the question)?
6 hrs
  -> Thank you for the reminder! What about waste ready for incineration?
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
incinerable waste


Explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/2eehts

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-18 19:28:03 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Answer given here based on the assumption that asker wanted the actual phrase posted ('ofenfertige Abfälle') translated as a whole. Waste that is ready for incineration is 'incinerable waste'.
(763 references on the above link.)

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 83
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search