APES Ch 22

Question 1

Waste

Answer 1

Any unwanted material or substance that results from human activity or process

Question 2

Municipal solid

Answer 2

No liquid waste that comes from homes, institutions and small businesses

Question 3

Industrial solid waste

Answer 3

Waste from production of consumer goods, mining, agriculture, and petroleum extraction and refining

Question 4

Hazardous waste 1

Answer 4

Waste that is solid or liquid that is toxic, chemically reactive, flammable, or corrosive

Question 5

Industrial ecology

Answer 5

Seeks to redesign industrial systems to reduce resource inputs and to maximize both physical and economic efficiency

Question 6

Life-cycle analysis

Answer 6

Examination of the entire life cycle as a given product in an attempt to identify ways to make the process ecologically efficient

Question 7

Hazardous waste 2

Answer 7

Waste that is:

1. Ignitable. Substances that easily catch on fire
2. Corrosive. Substances that corrode metals in storage tanks or equipment
3. Reactive. Substances that are chemically unstable and readily react with other compounds, often explosively, or by producing noxious fumes
4. Toxic. Substances that harm human health when they are inhaled, ingested or come into contact with human skin.

Question 8

E-waste (electronic waste)

Answer 8

Electronics/machines that are discarded

Question 9

Surface impoundments

Answer 9

Ponds that are shallow, depressions lined with plastic and an impervious material

Question 10

Deep-well injection

Answer 10

Well is drilled deep beneath the water table into porous rock and wastes are injected into it

Question 11

Brownfields

Answer 11

Lands whose reuses or development are complicated by hazardous materials

Question 12

Superfund

Answer 12

Program that helps clean up hazardous waste

Question 13

Waste Management

Answer 13

1. Minimizing the amount of waste we generate
2. Recovering waste materials and finding ways to recycle them
3. Disposing of waste safely and effectively

Question 14

Recovery

Answer 14

Recovering or removing waste from the waste stream

Question 15

Source Reduction

Answer 15

Minimizing waste at its source

Question 16

Waste stream

Answer 16

The flow of waste as it moves from its sources toward disposal destinations

Question 17

Recycling

Answer 17

The process of collecting used goods and sending them to facilities that extract and reprocess raw materials that can be used somewhere else

Question 18

Composting

Answer 18

The practice of recovering organic waste by converting it into mulch or hummus

Question 19

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Answer 19

Law placed saying all landfills must meet that EPA’s standards

Question 20

Sanitary Landfills

Answer 20

Landfills that are designed to prevent waste from contaminating the environment

Question 21

Leachate

Answer 21

Liquid that results when substances from trash dissolve in water

Question 22

Incineration

Answer 22

Burning of waste

Question 23

Waste-to-energy

Answer 23

Faculties that use heat produced by waste combustion to boil water and other electricity generated actions

Question 24

Landfill gas

Answer 24

A mix of gases made by land fills: 50% of it is methane

Question 25

Materials recover facilities

Answer 25

Factories where workers and machine sort items using machines to separate items and prepare them for reprocessing