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This term refers to the waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment.
What is hazardous waste?
In 2018, this country, one of the largest importers of waste in the world, implemented the National Sword policy which drastically reduced the amount of imported waste.
What is China?
Unlike in developed countries, waste recycling businesses in developing countries are often part of this sector.
What is the informal sector?
This process converts waste into new products, reducing the need for raw materials.
What is recycling?
What is a marsupial?
The term for illegal shipping of hazardous materials across borders, often disguised as recyclables.
What is waste trafficking?
What is Italy?
This global framework adopted by the UN aims for a sustainable future and includes 17 major goals, including global waste management.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)?
The practice of reducing the amount of waste by designing products that are more durable and can be upgraded easily.
What is waste minimization?
This was the first adult animal ever cloned.
What is a sheep/ewe?
The practice of exporting electronic waste to developing countries to be disposed of or recycled.
What is e-waste dumping?
This Pacific country received global attention after returning waste shipments to their countries of origin in 2019, including Canada and the U.S.
What is the Philippines?
This term describes the response when impoverished or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, etc.
What is environmental justice?
This process reduces the volume of waste through burning, often converting waste to energy.
What is incineration?
Chickens have this many toes.
What is six?
This gas, a potent greenhouse gas, is commonly produced by the decomposition of organic waste in landfills.
What is methane?
After the implementation of the National Sword policy, this country has been one of the primary destinations for plastic waste, creating health and environmental concerns.
What is Malaysia?
This region in China is especially notable for e-waste importing.
What is Guiyu, China?
This major international agreement, signed in 2015, includes a goal to reduce waste through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reduction.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This is the name for a baby ant.
What is an antling?
This term refers to the process of using microorganisms to treat and stabilize waste, especially in sewage treatment.
What is bioremediation?
Greenpeace helped expose illegal waste dumping from the European Union into this African country in the early 2000s.
What is the Ivory Coast?
This international treaty, signed in 1989, regulates the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal.
What is the Basel Convention?
A waste disposal site where trash is isolated from the environment to prevent contamination, typically by using layers of soil to cover the waste and incorporating protective liners to prevent leachate from polluting the groundwater.
What is a sanitary landfill?
A goat can see around them this many degrees.
What is 360 degrees?