Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...and Composting
MSW
Landfills
Special Disposal & New Ways of Thinking
Miscellaneous
100
This is the most important of the three "R"s.
What is reduce?
100
This percent of MSW comes from residences and the rest from commercial sources.
What is 60%?
100
The major component of MSW in landfills in the United States is this.
What is paper?
100
The US legislation that is designed to track hazardous waste from its production ("cradle") to its disposal ("grave") is called this.
What is the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act?
100
Cell phones are an example of this type of waste.
What is e-waste?
200
An example of this is a company that produces laundry detergent switching from distributing its product in plastic bottles to using flexible pouches that require 84% less packaging.
What is source reduction?
200
This, in addition to their growing populations, best explains the rise of MSW generated by individuals in developed countries.
What is the mass production of consumer goods?
200
An environmental cost of sending computers to landfills is the disposed computers contain these toxic metals that end up in the environment.
What are lead, mercury, and cadmium?
200
This is the US legislation that imposes a tax on targeted industrial facilities and then utilizes those funds to cleanup selected abandoned hazardous waste sites.
What is CERCLA (or the Superfund act)?
200
This component of a landfill is extracted and either used for fuel or burned off.
What is methane?
300
Plastic bottles can be recycled and used in the production of different plastic products. This best explains why the recycling of plastic is an example of this.
What is open-loop recycling?
300
Out of an appliance, a paper cup, a piece of antique furniture, a ceramic plate, or auto parts in an abandoned car, this item would most likely end up in the waste stream the fastest.
What is a paper cup?
300
Leaking into nearby soils, leaking into groundwater, containing toxic metal compounds, and the classification as toxic waste are all examples of dangers associated with this from a sanitary landfill.
What is leachate?
300
In 1995, the EPA created this program to assist state and local governments in cleaning up contaminated industrial and commercial land that did not achieve conditions necessary to be in the Superfund category.
What is the Brownfields Program?
300
This component of a landfill is extracted and transported to a wastewater treatment facility.
What is leachate?
400
Reduction of volume of material ending up in landfills; generation of rich organic fertilizer; reduced amount of methane generated in landfills; reduced amount of energy needed to transport material to a landfill; These are all examples of the environmental benefits of this.
What is composting?
400
This population generates around 2000 grams of MSW per capita.
What is the United States?
400
Toxic ash is associated with this type of solid waste disposal.
What is incineration? **Be sure to also know the other negative aspects of incineration.
400
The amount of suitable land available for siting, the release of methane gas into the atmosphere, the potential for leaking of leachate, and the reliance on fossil fuels for transporting waste are all environmental costs of relying on this to handle waste.
What are sanitary landfills?
400
In the US, the primary method of disposal of MSW is this.
What is collecting it in a sanitary landfill?
500
The environmental benefits of recycling aluminum are reduction of the effects on the land from mining, reduction of the energy required to transport and process mined ore, and this.
What is the reduction of the effects of leaching in landfills?
500
When MSW is categorized based on its source, the category that comprises the greatest amount is this.
What are containers and packaging?
500
This is when the reclamation of a sanitary landfill occurs.
What is after the landfill is capped?
500
This is a more holistic method that seeks to develop as many options as possible, emphasizing reduced environmental harm and cost.
What is Integrated Waste Management?
500
In this country, e-waste is handled by adults that are trained to handle the waste safely. Certain separated materials are sold to reputable dealers, while other materials are compacted to minimize shipping and energy costs and then sent to environmentally certified metal smelters around the globe.
What is Chile?
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