Solid Waste
A discarded solid material, such as garbage, or sludges.
What is SOLID WASTE.
Collecting and sorting discarded materials by type.
What is the first step in the recycling process.
What possible effects could chemicals, when discarded improperly, have on the environment?
What is they could contaminate local water sources, possibly harming aquatic life, birds, pets, and other organisms
What can people do with used motor oil?
What is take it to an automobile service station where it will be turned in for recycling, or take it to the landfill.
Chemicals can easily leach through soil and find themselves in our _______________ _________.
What is DRINKING WATER.
Waste produced by households and businesses.
What is MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE.
Produce less waste, recycle, and change the materials and products we use.
What are three ways to reduce solid waste?
Any waste that is a risk to the health of humans or other living things
What is HAZARDOUS WASTE.
Have demonstrated the ability to degrade or break down different kinds of plastics, offering a potential solution to the growing problem of plastic pollution.
What is BACTERIA and FUNGI.
Produce less of it.
What is he best way to manage hazardous waste?
Makes up most of municipal solid waste.
What is PAPER.
Yard waste often makes up as much as 14 percent of a community’s solid waste. None of this waste has to go to a landfill. Because yard waste is biodegradable, it will decompose in a ____________.
What is a COMPOST PILE.
Dyes, cleansers, and solvents, toxic heavy metals, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and zinc, pesticides, radioactive wastes from spent fuel that was used to generate electricity.
What are TYPES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE.
Toxic waste is also known as _______ ________.
What is POISONOUS WASTE.
These live organisms communicate with each other through an underground fungal network called mycorrhizal networks.
What are TREES.
Synthetic material that can not be broken down by biological processes.
What is NONBIODEGRADABLE.
Made so that when it is left in the sun for many weeks, it becomes weak and brittle and eventually breaks into pieces.
What is photodegradable plastic.
Created the first significant role for federal government in waste management. Passed by Congress in 1976. The primary goals include protecting human health from the hazards of waste disposal, conserving energy and natural resources by recycling and recovering, reducing or eliminating waste, and cleaning up waste, which may have spilled, leaked, or been improperly disposed of.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Directed by Emmy-winning writer and filmmaker Nic Stacey. Unpacks the tricks brands use to keep their customers consuming -- and the REAL IMPACT they have on our ecosystems and the world.
What is BUY NOW documentary.
Ocean currents that churn up tons of trash. Some of the trash eventually flows onto coastal beaches.
What are GYRES.
4.4 pounds
What is the average amount of solid waste produced per person per day in the United States.
Made by blending the sugars in plants with a special chemical agent to make plastic.
What are GREEN PLASTICS.
Gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the right to sue the owners of hazardous waste sites who illegally dumped waste.
What is the SUPERFUND ACT.
Uranium and plutonium.
What are the two main examples of radioactive waste?
The "Life-jacket cemetery?" is located here.
Where is the shores of GREECE.