Types of waste
Every day, trash comes from stores, homes, and restaurants that get thrown away.
What is Municipal common waste?
An economic model where products and materials are meant to be kept in constant circulation.
What is Cradle-to-Cradle design?
The process of extracting minerals from the ground
What is ore mining?
The known amounts of a mineral that can easily be accessed
What are mineral reserves?
A carefully designed landfill meant to prevent waste from contaminating soil and groundwater.
What is a sanitary landfill?
Any discarded electronic or application
E-Waste
Reusing discarded materials to create something new with higher quality than the original.
What is Upcyling?
A method of resource excavation where the top surface is removed to expose materials.
What is surface mining?
The estimated amount of time that a resource will last if it continues to be used at the same rate.
What is resource depletion?
Facilities that burn waste to generate renewable electricity and also heat
What are waste to energy incinerators.
Waste that poses a serious threat to humans or the environment.
What is Hazardous waste?
Recycling discarded materials to create something new of lower value. Limits reusability.
What is Downcyling?
The mining process, where the top layer of soil is removed along parallel lines
What is Strip mining?
Waste reduction strategies. Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle
What are the 5 Rs?
A method for disposing of hazardous waste byplacing it deep underground.
What is deep well disposal?
A by-product of mining, the leftover waste from after a valuable mineral is extracted from the soil
What is tailing?
The natural process of recyling organic manner.
What is composting?
A destructive mining process where the tops of mountains are removed to access the materials within.
What is Mountaintop Removal Mining?
The recycling process where a material is turned back into the same product.
What is Closed-loop recycling?
The use of microorganisms to break down and remove pollutants from contaminated soil or water.
What is Bioremediation?
What is a leachate
A series of interconnected industries that aim to minimize waste by using waste from one industry as raw materials for another.
What is the Industrial Ecosystem Approach?
17 metallic elements that are often used in electronics, appliances, and vehicles
What are rare earth metals?
The recycling process where a material is turned into a different product, often of lower quality
What is Open-Looped recyling?
The use of plantlife to absorb, store, and break down pollutants from soil or water.
What is Bioremediation?