Disruptors
What is BPA?
Causes cancer
What are carcinogens?
All of these are the four categories of hazardous waste
What are toxic, ignitable, corrosive, and reactive?
Garbage juice
What is leachate?
When the toxin is passed down the food chain in the bodies of plants and animals.
What is biomagnification?
Rachel Carson sounded the alarm on this toxin.
What is DDT?
Causes mutations in DNA
What are mutagens?
What is CERCLA?
Landfills are lined with this to prevent groundwater contamination.
What are plastic and clay?
What is e-waste?
Government agency that regulates pesticides in the USA
What is the EPA?
Causes birth defects
What are teratogens?
What are the polluters/industry/taxpayers?
Reduces the mass of garbage but pollutes the air.
What is incineration?
Toxins that bioaccumulate have these two properties.
What are being fat-soluble and persistent in the environment?
Found in the basement of houses and second leading cause of lung cancer
What is radon?
Causes an immune response
What is an allergen?
This land once contained hazardous waste from factories or other industries.
What are brownfields?
Landfill gas
What is methane?
These mimic the organism's natural hormones.
What are endocrine disruptors?
A neurotoxin that was once in gasoline.
What is lead?
Asbestos
What is a carcinogen?
What is mercury?
Law that manages hazardous waste
What is RCRA? Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
What is urban mining?