GO Team!
Who are the people in your neighborhood?
Waste Not Want Not
Oscar the Grouch
Wasted
300

Where solid waste is burned for energy.

What is a waste-to-energy incinerator?

300
A tool that uses the 4th state of matter to incinerate hazardous wastes?
What is a plasma arc torch?
300
A place where machines or workers separate the mixed waste to recover valuable materials for sale to manufature as raw materials
What is materials-recovery facilities (MRFs)?
300
Law that issues permits to companies allowing them to produce and dispose of certain wastes using a cradle-to-grave approach
What is RCRA?
300
Examples: soil, air, water, biodiversity, land
What is natural resources?
400

What are the 2 Fundamental Commitments at WM?

What are Our People First and Success with Integrity?

400
Using bacteria or enzymes to break down toxic waste
What is bioremediation?
400
The least expensive of the 3Rs
What is reduce?
400
Program that focuses on waste reduction and waste management
What is integrated waste management?
400
number of births per 1000 people in a population
What is crude birth rate?
400
The fraction of the world's solid waste that is produced by the United States.
What is 1/3?
400
When hazardous wastes are inserted deep into the ground below the aquifer.
What is deep well injection?
400
When households and businesses separated their trash into recyclable categories
What is source separation?
400
Law passed to identify sites where hazardous wastes have contaminated the environment and to clean them up
What is CERCLA?
400
Example of perpetual resource
What is the sun?
500

What are WM's Core Values?

What are Diversity & Inclusion, Customers, Safety and Environement?

500
Ponds, pits, or lagoons into whichliners are placed and liquid hazardous wates are stored.
What are surface impoundments?
500
A form of recycling that mimics nature's recycling of nutrients
What is composting?
500
An ideal that every person is enatitled to protection from environmental hazards regardless of race, gender, age, national origin, income, social class, or any political factor.
What is environmental justice?
500
"It's not MY problem!"
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
500
Waste that comes from discarded television sets, cell phones, computers, e-toys, and other electronic devices.
What is electronic waste or e-waste?
500
Using plants to absorb, filter,a dn remove contaminants from polluted water and soil.
What is phytoremediation?
500
Example: taking in a canvas grocery sack into the mall
What is reusing?
500
Another name for CERCLA
What is Superfund?
500
# of people living in comfort and freedom without impairing the planet to sustain future generations
What is cultural carrying capacity?
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