Wastes

Random Trivia

100

What city do the Simpsons live in?

What is Springfield?

200

What team did Brett Favre spend most of his professional football career with?

What is Green Bay Packers?

300

What is the capital of Panama?

What is Panama City?

400

What is the capital of the US State of Montana?

What is Helena?

500

What treaty ended the American Revolutionary war?

What is the Treaty of Paris?

Solid Waste

100

A permanent waste-disposal site where wastes are put into the ground and then covered with soil.

What is a landfill?

200

This is a gas that is a product of decomposition.

What is methane?

300

A liquid that has passed through compacted solid waste in a landfill.

What is leachate?

400

This is one way to reduce the amount of solid wastes that may end up in landfills.

What is an incinerator/incineration.

500

This item was put into a landfill in Tempe Arizona in 1971. It was removed in 1989, and was legible.

What is newspaper?

Reducing solid waste

100

Anything that is not able to break down in a relatively short amount of time through natural processes.

What is nonbiodegradable?

200

Process of reusing materials, or recovering valuable materials from waste or scrap.

What is recycling?

300

This is made from old food and yard wastes.

What is compost?

400

A type of battery that helps reduce solid wastes.

What is rechargable batteries?

500

This type of plastic is engineered to break down into tiny pieces if it is left out in the sun for many weeks.

What is photodegradable plastic?

hazardous waste

100

These are chemicals used on crops to help get rid of plant-eating insects.

What are pesticides?

200

This should be disposed of at an automobile service station or in an oil-collection receptacle.

What is motor oil?

300

any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in Chapter 11 of the hazardous waste regulations or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.

What is a generator?

400

Inspect waste once a week to ensure:

Container is labeled with a complete “Hazardous Waste” label 

Container label identifies contents 

Container labels has accumulation start date 

Containers are kept closed 

Containers are not corroded 

Containers are maintained to minimize the possibility of release (i.e., secondary containment)

500

Passed by Congress in 1976 to provide a cradle-to-grave management of hazardous waste.

What is the RCRA?

Random Television Trivia

100

What was the name of the man that betrayed Harry Potters parents that claimed to be their friend?

Who is Peter Pettigrew?

200

In the show Game of Thrones, what house always pays their debts?

What is House Lannister?

300

What famous order was given during the fall of the republic in Star Wars?

What is Order 66?

400

In the society of the Snow, what famous mountains did the airplane crash in?

What are Andes Mountains?

500

Which is the only male character out of the main group on The Big Bang Theory without a doctorate?

Who is Howard Wolowitz?