Many towns are _______ out of space to dispose the amount of waste.
What is running
100
Ways we can reduce solid waste:
What is Buying less of something and last longer and recycling
100
Hazardous waste can be solids,_______,or _______
What is liquids,gases
100
A material that can be broken down by biological processes.
What is biodegradable material
100
Is the process of reusing materials or recovering valuable materials from waste or scrap.
What is recycle
200
Because the human and amount of waste we create is __________ and the amount of land availble is ___________.
What is increasing & decreasing
200
By making products from recycled materials usually saves ______,______,and other resources.
What is energy & water
200
Some hazardous wastes at home are: b________,cleaners,f_______, _____ ____(something you put in a car & it is illegal to pour it on the ground or throw it away),& mobile phones.
What is batteries,fertilizer,motor oil
200
Is a permanent waste-disposal facility where wastes are put in the ground and covered each day with layer of soil,plastic, or both.
What is landfill
200
Wastes that are a risk to the health of humans or other living organisms.
What is Hazardous Waste
300
A discared solid material such as garbage,refuse, or sludges. (Key Term)
What is solid waste
300
Yard waste makes up more than __ percent of a community's solid waste
What is 15
300
Name an Act that was passed by congress in 1976 and amended in 1984. The act was established to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal and to protect humans and the environment from waste contamination.
What is Resoure Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
300
A liquid that has passed through solid waste and has extracted dissolved or suspended materials from that waste, such as pesticies in the soil.
What is leachate
300
Is any change in design,manufacture,purchase, or use of materials or products to reduce their amount or toxicity before they become solid waste.
What is source reduction
400
Some plastic that we as people throw away may accumulate and last for ________ of years.
What is hundreds
400
Changing the materials we use could ________ much of the solid waste that we as people produce.
What is eliminate
400
Name other act that was passed in 1980. That gav the right to sue owners of hazardous waste sites who had illegally dumped waste. It also created a fund of money to pay for cleaning up abandon hazardous waste sites.
What is Superfund Act
400
Deep well disposal of hazardous waste
What is deep-well injection
400
Waste produced by house-holds and business
What is municipal solid waste
500
Name 2 types of Solid Waste:
What is Municipal solid waste and Solid waste from manufacturing,mining,& agriculture.
500
What are the 4 steps of Recycling?
What is 1.) collecting & sorting discarded materials by types. 2.) taking the material to a facility. 3.) cleaning the discarded materials so they can be shredded or crushed. 4.)the shredded or crushed materials become a manufactured new product
500
Name 6 hazardous waste management:
What is 1.Preventing Hazardous Waste 2.Conversion into nonhazardous substances 3.Land Disposal 4.Biologically treating hazardous waste 5. incinerating hazardous waste 6.Exporting hazardous waste
500
A dark brown, crumbly material made from decomposed plant and animal matter that is spread on gardens and fields to enrich the soil.
What is compost
500
A natural depression or a human-made excavation that serves as a disposal facility that holds an accumulation of wastes.