Solid Waste
Hazardous Waste
Recycling
Incineration
Landfills
100
In the US, the highest percent of solid waste is produced by: 

a) individuals

b) government

c) industries

d) farming

e) mining

e) mining
100
Which of the following are examples of hazardous wastes:

a) plastic bottles

b) batteries

c) computer hard drives

d) pesticides

e) food waste

b, c, d
100
In closed loop recycling, the waste is recycled into: 
similar products
100
The US incinerates about ________ of its MSW. 


a) 2%

b) 9%

c) 35%

d) 55%

b) 9%
100
The liquid waste that seeps from garbage and is collected at a landfill is called: 
leachate
200
What country did not ratify the Basel Convention? 


What is the Basel Convention's objective?

USA


To reduce and control the movement of hazardous waste across international borders

200
Putting hazardous waste well below groundwater levels into the earth is called: 
Deep well injection or disposal
200
According to the EPA, the US recycles: 

(Put in order from most to least)


steel cans, lead-acid batteries, aluminum cans, newspaper 

lead-acid batteries, newspapers, steel cans, aluminum cans
200
The two air pollution control devices attached to incinerators are: 
scrubbers and electrostatic precipitators
200
Gas recovery wells are included in EPA guidelines for all landfills. What gas do they collect, and what can it be used for? 
Methane, for energy 
300
Columbia and BioCycle magazine researchers have estimated that the average American threw away an average of ____ pounds of trash every day. The EPA estimated that each American threw out ____ pounds a day. 
7


4.5

300

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) or Superfund Act goal is to identify sites of hazardous waste contamination and then: 

clean them up
300
Biodegradable waste is expected to degrade in about: 

a) 5 years

b) 10 years

c) 25 years

d) 50 years plus

d) 50 years plus
300
What can be produced during incineration of MSW?


a) PCB's 

b) dioxins

c) mercury

d) heavy metals 

all of them
300
Landfill sites are currently in abundance in the US. True or False? 
True
400
A variety of coordinated strategies for waste disposal and waste reduction is called: 
Integrated waste management
400
4 ways to treat hazardous waste include: 
plasma gasification (plasma arc), bioremediation, nanomagnets, chemical methods, physical methods, phytoremediation
400
Some cities, such as Chicago, have a ____________-recovery facility where machines or workers separate the mixed waste to recover valuable materials, and the recyclables are taken out to recycle
materials
400
The most expensive type of waste disposal is:

a) landfilling

b) recycling

c) incineration

c) incineration
400

Lined ponds, pits or lagoons in which liquid hazardous wastes are stored are called:

surface impoundments
500
The type of system that charges consumers for the amount of waste they throw away but provide free pickup for it is called: ______________________


The _______________________ policy requires companies to take back various consumer products that they have created. 

fee-per-bag waste system


cradle-to-grave 

500
What law passed by Congress in 1976 allows the EPA to set standards for the management of several types of hazardous waste and issues permits to companies that allow them to produce and dispose of a certain amount of those wastes by approved methods. 
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
500
Bioplastics can be made from: 
corn, soy, sugarcane, switchgrass, chicken feathers and garbage components. 
500
12 of the most polluting organic chemicals that tend to bioaccumulate are called (2 names):
the dirty dozen

POP's or Persistent organic pollutants

500
List 4 requirements for sanitary landfills.
Methane gas recovery wells, leachate collection pipes, clay and plastic liner, clay and soil top cover for permanent closure and daily cover using soil or tarps.
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