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EHST 2110 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Definition 1 of 55
Provides a federal "superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites.
Source Separation Programs
Improper Disposal of household hazardous waste
Brownfields
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act CERCLA -
Superfund
Definition 2 of 55
List of wastes that need to be cleaned in time
Household hazardous waste
Deep Well Injection
Agricultural Waste
National Priority List
Definition 3 of 55
House hold, Institutions, Residential. Ex: garbage (food), rubbish/trash (paper, yard waste)
Extra R Recovery
Municipal Waste
William Rathie
Secure Landfill
,Definition 4 of 55
Ignitable
Corrosive
Toxic
Reactive
2 Biggest concerns with landfills?
Major Generators of Hazardous Waste
Characteristics of Hazardous Waste
Institutional Waste
Definition 5 of 55
1st law dealing with waste management. Design of landfills, must be able to catch leachate and
methane gas
Waste to Energy
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCRA Subtitle D
How the Love canal ended
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Definition 6 of 55
Waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the
environment.
Secure Landfill
Industrial Waste
Municipal Waste
Hazardous Waste
,Definition 7 of 55
Commercial/Institutional waste & process waste; ex: chemical plants, refineries, hazardous
Institutional Waste
Industrial Waste
Agricultural Waste
Secure Landfill
Definition 8 of 55
Example of recycling separate paper from trash from plastic. ex: curbside collection
Household hazardous waste
Cell Phone Batteries
Source Separation Programs
Materials Recovery Facility (MURF)
Definition 9 of 55
The collection, separation, and recovery of useful materials for manufacture into raw material
or new products
Recycle
Leachates
Cadmium
E-waste
, Definition 10 of 55
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.
Extra R Recovery
William Rathie
Municipal Waste
Secure Landfill
Definition 11 of 55
Waste management facilities, dumps, or sources of pollution are located in poor or minority
communities.
Municipal Waste
Environmental Racism
Agricultural Waste
Brownfields
Definition 12 of 55
Slow mental & physical development of young children
Deep Well Injection
Extra R Recovery
Lead Side effects
Benefits of recycling
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