Food Waste
The gas that rotting food produces
what is methane
Kennecott
What is a copper mine in utah
The thing that happens to waste at landfills
This type of country usually doesnt have systems for waste
What are developing countries
What EPA stands for
What is The Environmental Protection Agency
The amount of food bought that an average american family wastes
what is 1/3 of the food they purchase
An adjective to describe the process of disposing of hazardous waste
What is difficult
This is what more than half of waste in landfills are buried under
What is soil
The three countries we showed pictures of waste in
What are the Philippines, Guatemala and Canada
What EPA does
The amount of water it takes to produce two pounds of beef
what is 15 to 20,000 liters
The affects of hazardous waste on humans
What are cancer, mutations and chronic illness
Cities with more waste than space do this
What is sending trash out of state
This happens when waste in landfills are burned
What is air pollution
The act that EPA regulates waste under
What is The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The two largest producers of carbon dioxide in the world
What are the US and China
the number of pounds of toxic waste released into the land in 2015
what is 2 billion
146.1 million tons
What is there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish
4 EPA suggestions to limit waste
What are reusing or donating items, buying in bulk, reducing packaging, recycling, Composting food scraps
4 ways food waste could harm a country
What are uses their assets, wastes their water and other resources, releases methane into the environment and it takes up a lot of land
Three types of hazardous waste
What are heavy metals, PCB oils, cyanides, strong solvents, and acids
Where majority of chemicals from the waste end up
What are water wells, streams and soil
The amount of plastic that ends up in the worlds oceans each year
What is 13 million tons
What the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act controls
What is the transportation, distribution, storage and disposal of both hazardous and non-hazardous waste