What a Waste!
The mixed refuse produced by households and businesses is called THIS.
What is municipal solid waste?
Still used in developing countries, this method exposes wastes to the weather and vermin.
What is an OPEN LANDFILL?
Collecting, sorting and reprocessing of discarded materials into new, useful products is known as THIS.
What is RECYCLING?
An toxic compound that can cause cancer is called THIS.
What is CARCINOGENIC?
This disposal method can reduce the volume of treated waste by as much as 90%.
What is INCINERATION?
THIS is the accumulation of domestic garbage and yard wastes as well as industrial, commercial, and construction refuse.
What is the WASTE STREAM?
New York City finally ended this method of sewage sludge disposal in 1992.
What is OCEAN DUMPING?
The biological degradation of organic material under aerobic conditions produces THIS nutrient-rich soil additive.
What is COMPOST?
Hazardous wastes that are teratogenic can cause THIS.
What are BIRTH DEFECTS?
A sanitary landfill liner is made of THIS to prevent groundwater contamination.
What is COMPACTED CLAY or PLASTIC?
Over 50% of U.S. Municipal Solid Waste ends up HERE.
What is a LANDFILL?
Since 1994, all operating landfills must have a system to collect THIS before it enters groundwater.
What is LEACHATE?
Recycling of car batteries is required by law in the U.S. in order to keep THIS out of the environment.
What is LEAD?
An abandoned or underused urban area in which redevelopment is discouraged due to toxic contamination is called THIS.
What is a BROWNFIELD?
Even though incineration is a concern, it can be efficient and produce THIS usable commodity.
What is ELECTRICAL ENERGY?
Since the 1960's, THIS category of waste has increased dramatically.
What are PLASTICS?
Sanitary Landfills can capture this greenhouse gas and turn it into electrical energy by burning it to turn a turbine.
What is METHANE?
New plastics made from THIS are often cheaper to make than sorting and recycling waste plastics.
What is PETROLEUM or OIL?
Dangerous in small doses, ignitable or corrosive are characteristics of THIS.
What are HAZARDOUS WASTES?
A fund established by Congress to pay for containment, cleanup, or remediation of abandoned toxic waste sites.
What is the SUPERFUND.
The number one problem in our waste would be solved by greater use of THIS technique before collection.
What is SEPARATION and/or SORTING?
Discarded electronics, known as THIS, are sometimes shipped to countries with cheap labor for disassembly, but result in local pollution.
What is E-WASTE?
Of the three R's, THIS is the most cost effective.
What is REDUCE?
Use of biological organisms to remove pollution or restore environmental quality. is called THIS.
What is BIOREMEDIATION?
The Pacific Garbage Patch is collected by the circular flow of ocean currents called THIS:
What is a GYRE?