Solid Waste

Solid waste can be described as trash, garbage, litter, junk or refuse. Things we do not want or throw away.

• True

• False

A ________ is a place where solid waste or trash is dumped and covered with dirt.

Moist or wet garbage in a sanitary landfill is called _________ or garbage juice.

• trash

• groundwater

• leachate

• methane

Perforated pipes take leachate away from the landfill and a geotextile liner and clay prevent

• the landfill from smelling

• the groundwater and soil from being contaminated

• the landfill from getting wet

• plastic from entering the landfill

Plastic takes thousands of years to break down. We can reduce our use of plastic and the amount we send to the landfill by

• Taking our own reusable bag to the supermarket.

• Buying environmentally friendly cups, plates, straws and utensils.

• Collecting plastic bottles and containers to be sent to a recycling centre.

• Doing all of these things.

We can recycle our household waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings, dry grass, tree and hedge clippings by letting it decompose to form a dark, nutrient rich soil. This is called

• Sorting

• Incinerating

• Dumping

• Composting

Which items cannot be placed into the compost bin?

• fruit and vegetable peelings

• chicken bones and cheese

• dried grass

• tree and hedge clippings

If we continue to use an item, repair it, sell it or give it away or create a new use for it, which of the R's is this?

• Reduce

• Reuse

• Recycle

When plastic, cardboard, paper, metal, glass, cans and old cooking oil are taken somewhere to be made into new products such as clothing, paper, biodiesel etc which of the R's are we using?

• Reduce

• Reuse

• Recycle

Dumping large items, meat and dead animals in open spaces anywhere is called _________ dumping