ES WASTE MANAGEMENT Day 1

Where does your trash go when you throw it away?

• Trash goes into garbage trucks and is hauled to landfills or incinerators.

• All trash is sorted and sent to recycling centers

• Trash is collected and used as an energy source.

• All trash is converted into compost

any discarded material that is not a liquid or a gas

• Solid Waste

• Agricultural Waste

• Biological Waste

• Incineratory Waste

How much solid waste is produced by Americans each year?

• 400 tons

• 10 billion tons

• 25 thousand tons

• 100 billion tons

Solid waste includes all of the following except:

• newspapers and soda bottles

• Food Scraps and Yard Clippings

• Ozone and Carbon dioxide

• Junk mail and milk cartons

material that can be broken down by things like bacteria and fungi. This breakdown is called DECAY. The nutrients released can be used by other living things

• Biodegradable waste

• Dissolvable waste

• Impermeable waste

• Synthetic waste

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Waste Products produced from natural materials

• Biodegradable products

• Renewable products

• Sufficient products

• Insoluable products

Synthetic

substances that are made by combining chemicals to form compounds that do not

exist in nature.

Ex. Polyester,

nylon, and plastic

• NonBiodegradable waste

• Biodegradable waste

• Recycled waste

• Synthetic waste

• Artificial waste

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If your shirt is made of 50% cotton and 50% polyester, what part is biodegradable?

• Cotton

• Polyester

• Both are Biodegradable

• Neither one are Biodegradable

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How is plastic created?

• Grows on Takoah trees in the Amazon Rain Forest

• Plastic is created from the sludge left over from the distillation of crude oil.

• Plastic is created in the WalMart distribution centers.

• Plastics are mined from the Earth using strip mining.

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Microorganisms are unable to break down plastic because

• Plastics are made from oil

• Plastics are too abundant

• Plastics are made of elements not found in any other substance

• Plastics do not occur in nature

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