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Hazerdous waste
Recycling
Solid Waste
Composting
municipal solid waste
100
waste that is a risk to the health of humans or other things.
What is hazerdous waste?
100
The process of reusing materials or recovering valuable materials from waste or scrap.
What is Recycling?
100
is any discarded solid materal
What is solid waste?
100
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?
100
waste that is produced by households and bussinesses
What is municipal solid waste?
200
By leaving things like pestisides out in the open to get into the air.
How do we produce hazerdous waste?
200
True
True or False You can recycle paper?
200
paper cups, napkins, plastic straws, anything that is solid and thrown away
What is some of the things that are solid waste?
200
They are biodegradable which means to break down and then they are put out into a pile to form compost.
How do things become compost?
200
2%
What percent of solid waste is made up of municipal waste?
300
toxic, corrosive, or explosive materials
What is 3 materials that contain hazerdous waste?
300
paper, plastic, and aluminum cans
What are 3 items that can be recycled?
300
False
True or False People generate 25 billion metric tons of waste?
300
false
True or False Compost is not very effective?
300
True
True or False? Municipal Solid waste is produced by household and businesses.
400
dyes, cleansers, and solvents
What are some types of hazerdous waste?
400
70%
What is the percent of energy needed to make paper?
400
4.4 pounds
What is the amount of solid waste produced each day?
400
15%
How much does yard waste make up?
400
Paper 38.1%
What is the highest % by weight of municipal waste?
500
the Love Canal in Niagra falls
What is one of the buildings that leaked of hazerdous materials?
500
collect and sort, and taken to facility and cleaned
What are the first 2 steps to recycling?
500
430
How many tons of ash are sent to be burned?
500
keeps organic wastes out of landfills, provides nutrients to the soil, protects soil from erosion.
What are benifits of composting?
500
210 million metric tons
How many metric tons a year of municipal waste?