Vocabulary
Solid materials discarded by homes and businesses in or near urban areas
What is Municipal Solid Waste?
MSW is burned in 600 of these across the U.S.
What is a Waste-to-Energy Incinerator?
This country buries just 4% of their MSW in open dumps.
What is Denmark?
This treaty banned the more-developed countries from shipping hazardous waste to other countries without their permission.
What is the Basel Convention?
Fields or holes in the ground where garbage is deposited and sometimes burned
What is an Open Dump?
Incinerators aren't widely used in the U.S. due to cheaper alternatives, citizen opposition, and this.
What is Excessive Air Pollution?
This burial method is a stronger alternative to open dumps.
What is a State-Of-The-Art Landfill?
This treaty regulated the use of 12 widely used persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that can accumulate in the fatty tissues of humans.
What is the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants?
Solid wastes are spread out in thin layers, compacted, and covered daily with a fresh layer of clay or plastic foam to help keep the material dry and reduce leakage
What is a Sanitary Landfill?
Incinerators produce less greenhouse gas emissions than these.
What is a Modern Landfill?
Waste is covered with a layer of this in a sanitary landfill.
What is Clay/Plastic Foam?
A treaty was set on 12 original persistent organic pollutants. They were known as this.
What is the Dirty Dozen?
Every person is entitled to protection from environmental hazards regardless of race, gender, age, nationality, income, social class, or any political factor
What is Environmental Justice?
About 15% of MSW is incinerated under lax pollution control regulations in this country.
What is China?
The bottoms and the sides of sanitary landfills have these which help contain leaks and collect leaching liquid. (there are two possible answers.)
What are Double Liners and Containment Systems?
This organization enacted a law that, by 2020, will ban all chemicals that are persistent in the environment and that can accumulate in living tissue.
What is the Swedish Parliament?
Using natural principles to solve problems
What is Biomimicry?
The U.S. only burns this much of their MSW in waste-to-energy incinerators.
What is 13%
All landfills and open dumps eventually do this, which passes on expenses to future generations.
What is Leaking?
These nations signed but did not ratify the Basel Convention.
What is Haiti, United States, and Afghanistan?