Solid waste
Managing Solid wastes
Hazardous Wastes
Laws and Regulations
Pot Pourri
100
This type of solid waste is produced by homes and businesses and is abbreviated MSW
What is municipal solid waste?
100
The three R's of source reduction.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
100
This would be a considered a common household hazardous substance
What is paint (batteries, cleaners, motor oil, computers)?
100
This government agency is responsible for regulating the disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and is known by the initials EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
100
This would be an example of a common biodegradable substance
What is paper (newspaper, food scraps, cotton fibers)?
200
This term refers to wastes that can be broken down by decomposers
What is biodegradable?
200
This substance, formed from decaying plant and animal material, is used to enrich the soil
What is compost?
200
This term means to burn hazardous wastes
What is incineration?
200
In 1978, President Carter declared the Love Canal area to be one of these
What is a federal disaster area?
200
This would be a common substance that would be recycled
What is glass (plastic, aluminum)?
300
The average person in the United States produces this much solid waste in one day
What is 4.4 pounds (2 kg)
300
This special type of plastic is made from plant sugar and chemicals
What is green plastic?
300
This area of New York was used by the Hooker chemical company to dispose of over 82 toxic compounds
What is Love Canal (Niagara Falls, NY)?
300
This act was passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal
What is the RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)?
300
Most of the Municipal Solid Waste in the United States ends up here
What is a landfill?
400
This barge sailed for 5 months trying to get rid of its load of garbage
What is the Mobro?
400
These two substances are a major concern when they are produced by landfills
What are methane and leachate?
400
The United States produces this much hazardous wastes each year
What is 252 million metric tons?
400
This act was passed in 1980 to set aside money for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites
What is the Superfund Act?
400
This type of plastic is broken down by sunlight
What is photodegradable plastic?
500
This source produces more than half of all the solid waste produced in the United States.
What is manufacturing (factories)?
500
This method of hazardous waste disposal involves pumping the wastes below ground water level
What is deep well injection?
500
When hazardous waste is allowed to settle out and evaporate in a pond, it is called this
What is surface impoundment?
500
This process refers to reducing the toxicity of materials by changing their design, purchase, or use
What is source reduction?
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