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EHST 2110 ECU SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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EHST 2110 ECU SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Name: Score:41 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 41
Which one is considered source separation?
Cadmium in batteries.
Resource conservation, energy conservation, pollution abatement
Secure landfill
Curbside collection
Term 2 of 41
How to manage hazardous wastes?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Cadmium in batteries.
Secure landfill
going through their garbage
Term 3 of 41
What is the great pacific garbage patch?
Ignitable
Corrosive
Toxic
Reactive
garbage patch the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
Resource conservation, energy conservation, pollution abatement
,Term 4 of 41
What are white goods?
Old appliances that get taken to landfill
generated by the natural breaking down of garbage
refundable deposit when you take bottles back to store
Gives grants to clean up sites that are good locations for business
Term 5 of 41
What is the Love Canal?
William T Love, wanted to use power from Niagara Falls for energy, he ran out of money
after he dug canal, people started fishing and swimming in canal. Hooker Chemical
company decided to dump chemical wastes in canal, along with other chemical
companies. Covered up the canal and built a school on it, people started moving on it,
grass was changing colors. Birth defects, burns on body from playing in grass. Now
called Black Creek Village after clean up.
Not many canned foods, more clothes and more paper plates.
3,200 tons of garbage in New York, took it out to sea to sell to other states. Rumor
spread that it was medical wastes, NC said they didn't want it and sent it to Louisiana
they said the same thing and it was returned to New York.
Municipal wastes
Industrial wastes
Agricultural wastes
Hazardous wastes
,Term 6 of 41
What is the definition of hazardous wastes?
garbage patch the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
Ignitable
Corrosive
Toxic
Reactive
source reduction
ground water conatmination.
Term 7 of 41
What is a Waste to Energy Plant?
garbage patch the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
Burn garbage and use heat from burning as energy energy for electricity (Incineration)
hazardous wastes is injected into the earth, method of disposing hazardous wastes.
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
Term 8 of 41
What is the manifest system?
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
Document following hazardous wastes to make sure it is disposed properly
Resource conservation, energy conservation, pollution abatement
Composting that deals with worms with composting kitchen wastes.
, Term 9 of 41
2 main issues associated with landfills?
garbage patch the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
Secure landfill
going through their garbage
leachates and methane gas
Term 10 of 41
What is deep well injection?
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
Document following hazardous wastes to make sure it is disposed properly
hazardous wastes is injected into the earth, method of disposing hazardous wastes.
Burn garbage and use heat from burning as energy energy for electricity (Incineration)
Term 11 of 41
How does low income families effect the wastes?
Resource conservation, energy conservation, pollution abatement
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
Lots of canned foods, no paper plates, buy less clothes and shoes.
garbage patch the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
Term 12 of 41
What is the National Priority List?
Document following hazardous wastes to make sure it is disposed properly
what will be the impact at putting a landfill at a certain area
Abandon sites that are considered dangerous enough to qualify for federal clean up.
large majority of disposal plants in poor or minority communities.
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