MSW Management
Hazardous Waste Management
Collection & Transport
Aerobic & Anaerobic Processes
Potpourri
100
The CA Integrated Waste Management Act established the CA Hierarchy of Waste Management in 1989 to obtain 50% diversion in 2000 was named this.
What is AB 939?
100
In order of greatest to least, name the top 5 household hazardous waste categories.
What is Cleaning Products (40%) > Personal Care (16.4%) > Automotive (30.1%) > Paint (7.5%) > Pesticides/Insecticides (2.5%)?
100
This form of trash collection is inefficient, expensive, unsightly, and has high injury rates.
What is manual 2-man collection crews?
100
For composting, static piles must maintain THIS temperature for 3 days and windrows must maintain the same temperature for at least 15 days.
What is 55 degrees Celsius?
100
The manifest from hazardous waste generators to transporters to the treatment, storage, and disposal facilities demonstrates what concept as established by RCRA?
What is cradle-to-grave?
200
An analysis of Water, Volatile Organic Carbon, Fixed Carbon, and Ash relative quantities is called this.
What is a proximate analysis?
200
These are the 4 hazardous waste characteristics as outlined by Title 22 CCR 66261.3.
What is ignitability, corrosive, toxicity, and reactivity?
200
These are the two types of transfer stations.
What is direct and storage load?
200
For composting the optimum input carbon to nitrogen ratio by mass is this.
What is 20-25:1?
200
The solid waste generated in Surabaya, Indonesia is not suitable for incineration because of this characteristic.
What is 95% organic constituents?
300
The lignin content of a waste is the main determinate of this variable based on the equation [0.83-0.028(LC)].
What is biodegradability factor?
300
Name the top three uses of Titanium Dioxide and Silver nanomaterials in consumer products.
What is antimicrobial, pigment, and sun protection?
300
Though they are high cost, 9000 of this form of collection programs exist in the US and it encourages public participation and is the simplest from the consumer perspective.
What is curbside recycling programs?
300
The anaerobic process is significantly slower, and produces these 5 end-products.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and mercaptans?
300
These are the 6 landfill siting requirements as established by Subtitle D of RCRA.
What is 10,000 feet from airports used by turbojet aircraft, out of 100-year flood plain, out of wetlands, more than 200 feet from fault lines, designed for seismic impact zones, and demonstrate stability of structural components?
400
Place the components of MSW (plastics, yard trimmings, food, and paper) in order of greatest to least in terms of generation rates.
What is Paper > Yard Trimmings > Food > Plastics ?
400
Name the top 5 inorganic toxics present in Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
What is Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, Beryllium?
400
The Department of Transportation has established this many classes of hazardous wastes.
What is 9?
400
Methane is considered an anthropogenic pollutant from landfills. In addition to being a 20 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide it is also explosive. This is the LEL and UEL of methane.
What is 5-15% ?
400
The 3 types of landfill geometries.
What is area, excavation/trench, and canyon/depression?
500
In addition of Federal regulation Subtitle D to RCRA by the US EPA, these 4 State organizations are involved in regulating/permitting landfill sites?
What is CA Water Quality Control Board, CA Air Resources Board, CalRecycle (aka CIWMB), & Dept. of Health Services?
500
Effective January 2005, this statewide act established a fee to cover the cost of recycling covered electronic devices such as CRTs.
What is California-Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003?
500
This is the main tool for solid waste collection in Surabaya, Indonesia.
What is hand pushed collection carts?
500
This is the title of a future trend in waste management in which liquid (and sometimes air) are injected into the waste mass.
What is aerobic/anaerobic bioreactors?
500
These air pollutants either has designed control or are source controlled for Waste to Energy plants. Name all 5. Note dioxins and furans are not compiled in this list.
What is NOx, Sulfur Dioxide, CO, PM, and Pb?
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