NIMBY stands for "Not in my backyard"- a syndrome in which people continue to create waste which they want to dispose of in other communities.This syndrome is pervasive as people almost universally desire to have the wastes from their everyday lives and from the economic activity in their community disposed of in someone else's neighborhood-any place but their own.

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NIMBY Stands For

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NIMBY stands for:

A) a national and international measurement organization which regulates environmental emissions in North American countries.
B) "not in my backyard"-a syndrome in which people want the wastes from their community disposed of in any place but their own.
C) national industrial measures for barren industrial yards.
D) a national institution for the maintenance of biological and irrigational yield.

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