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WorksheetsUnit 8 on Waste (APES)
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 20mins
Any discarded material that isn't a liquid or a gas...
EPA
Municipal Solid Waste
MSW
VOCS
GDP
The Wealthier a country is, the more MSW they produce
True or False?
True
False
Act to adress increasing problems from our growing volume of municipal and industrial waste..
1976
Resource Conservation
Recovery Act
(RCRA)
Safe Water Act of 1970
RCRA does controls hazardous waste from cradle to grave
Bans all open dumping of waste
True
False
Fun Fact: Organic Waste can be composted and used as fertilizer!
Click Yes
Yes
Yes
If fertilizer isn't aerated then it causes--------conditions
Toxic
Anaerobic
Unaerated
Methane
What are the three Rs of integrated Waste Management?
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Rejoice
Less MSW=less chance for detrimental environmental impacts
type: Yes
(a)
Recycling does which of the following?
Reduces volume in Landfills
Decreases need for getting new materials
Poisons the earth
Decreases all of the factors of production for manufacturing and processing materials
What are the cons to recycling?
Expensive
Decreases MSW in Landfills
Decreases need for new items
Fun fact: Hazardous waste is disposed of by neutralization!
Answer Yes
Yes
Yes
What are the four qualifications for hazardous waste?
(CIRT)
Corrosive
Ignitable
Reactive
Toxic
Hazardous waste is produced by....
Landfills
By-product of industrial waste
Nuclear Power plants
The US produces------of the worlds E-waste but only recycles-----
2. 50%
1. 50%
1. 10%
2. 10%
Most E-waste is sent the country of-----
Brazil
India
Russia
Asia
Leachate- rain filters through waste and leaches the chemicals in the waste
Can run into.....
Groundwater,
Runoff, Lakes, Rivers Causing Contamination
Your Moms house
Policy that handles the cleanups of hazardous waste management/legal enforcements
Superfund Act
1980
RCRA Act of 1976
What is the dump system that is mostly used in Developing Countries
Sanitary Landfill
Open Dump system
Choose all cons of open dump system
Methane production from not being stirred up
Harm to animals from runaway trash
Leaky Leachate
(trash water)
Less expensive
Process of creating a sanitary landfill..
Choose all that apply
Bury trash underground, cap it, then put topsoil over it
Its lined with clay/plastic and pipes to catch leachate (trash water)
Engineered to catch mathane before it is relaesed
Methane is used to generat electricty
MSW can be burned to reduce volume and sometimes to generate electricty
True
False
Air pollution from incineration releases the following pollutants
Particulates/ash
CO2
SO2
NOx
Fun Fact: Electrostatic scrubbers can reduce pollutants from incineration
Trace metals collected in ash need to be disposed of in special landfills
True
False
Municiple waste can best be disposed of in three ways...
Reuse
Recycling
Landfill
Incineration
Organic waste can best be disposed of by -----
(a)
The four types of waste are....
(HOME)
Hazardous Waste
Organic Waste
Municipal Waste
E-Waste
