Waste Review

When trash is burned in an incinerator, it is completely destroyed and no waste is still present.

• True
• False

Rainwater falling on a dump dissolves chemicals from the wastes, forming a liquid called _________________ that could pollute rivers, streams, and groundwater.

• liquid waste
• trash effluent
• leachate
• runoff

Most recycling focuses on four major categories of products.  Which one of these is NOT one of them?

• paper
• plastic
• chemicals
• glass

We treat leachate with oxygen bubbles and 

• anaerobic bacteria
• aerobic bacteria
• chlorine
• gravity

What law requires we change our waste management practices?

• environmental protection agency
• resource conservation and recovery act
• clean waste act
• supreme court waste law

Dumps are

• legal
• sometimes allowed
• illegal
• allowed if someone watches it

Water that runs off from out streets and storm drains is

• high pollution
• leachate
• illegal 
• wastewater

The resource conservation and recovery act gives the city money to make changes to fit the laws

• True
• False

When we throw away cellphones, computers, and TVs this waste is

• trash
• e-waste
• recycled
• sent to china

landfill liners will

• always hold the pollution
• can be fixed
• will eventually leak
• are perfectly made