Hazardous Waste - ANSWER - Waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially
harmful to human health or the environment.
Minimum Recycled Content Mandations - ANSWER - Requires some products to contain certain
% of recycled materials. ex: newspaper, telephone books
Somethings should just be made out of recycled materials.
2 Biggest concerns with landfills? - ANSWER - Methane gas that is emitted
Leachates contaminating ground water
Product Exchange - ANSWER - Collect certain waste. ex: Fire dept collect left over paint.
William Rathie - ANSWER - Professor and students conducting garbage project, trying to see
and understand what people were throwing away (sociology). They discovered garbage did not
deteriorate as quick as ppl stated. Landfills seemed to preserve things more.
Waste to Energy - ANSWER - Use methane gas that is emitted at landfills.
Burn garbage, creating heat to turn turbines, creating energy. *E X P E N S I V E*
Materials Recovery Facility (MURF) - ANSWER - Centralized facility for recyclable material to
be further processed. ex: hand sorting
# 1 Source/priority for controlling waste? - ANSWER - R E D U C T I O N
Leachates - ANSWER - Liquids produced when water(rain) travels through the waste in a
landfill, has potential to contaminate groundwater
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCRA Subtitle D - ANSWER - 1st law dealing with waste management. Design of landfills, must
be able to catch leachate and methane gas
After Agricultural Revolution.... - ANSWER - More people began to generate waste
NIMBY - ANSWER - Not In My Back Yard
Political opposition to the location of landfills
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