Solid Waste Management Surprise Test

^{Solid waste may be categorized in three ways:}

• Origin, Contents and Hazard potential

• Domestic, inorganic and infectious

• Collection , sorting and Disposal

• Biodegradable, flammable and Hazardous

Solid-waste management is defined as

• The Sorting, collecting, treating, and disposing

• The Sorting, storage, treating, and disposing

• The collecting, Sorting, treating, and disposing

• The collecting, treating, and disposing

In Municipal Solid Waste Management of developing countries select which is not a typical problem areas.

• Inadequate service coverage

• Operational inefficiencies of services

• Limited utilization of recycling activities,

• Adequate management of non industrial hazardous waste

Select the primary goal of solid waste management is

• Reduce

• Reuse

• Recycle

• Recover

Recover means taking __________ or __________ from wastes that cannot be use anymore

Choose from the following solid wastes that describes the term ‘Municipal Solid Waste’.

• Toxic

• Hazardous

• Non-toxic

• Non-hazardous

Judge why is it difficult to recycle plastics?

• It is very hard

• It comes in different sizes

• It is adhesive

• It contains different types of polymer resins

Explain why is recycled paper banned for use in food containers?

• Because it creates a lot of spaces

• Because it creates contamination

• Because paper can be used only one time

• Because paper is very thick and can’t cover the food containers

Select the plans used for a waste management plan

• Plan for reuse

• The integrated plan

• Plan for recycling

• Plan for reducing

Select Which of the following is the oldest and the most common method used to dump solid wastes.

• River

• Ocean

• Landfill

• None of the above