Apes Ch.22

Question 1

Hazardous waste

Answer 1

waste that threatens human health or the environment because it is poisonous, dangerously chemically reactive, corrosive, or flammable

Question 2

Municipal solid waste

Answer 2

garbage and trash produced by homes and workplace

Question 3

Industrial solid waste

Answer 3

produced by mines, agriculture, and industries that supply people with goods and services

Question 4

E-waste

Answer 4

electronic waste (televisions,cell phones, computers, other electronic devices)

Question 5

Integrated waste management

Answer 5

the use of several options for the handling of solid wastes; includes recycling, waste reduction, composting, landfulling, and others

Question 6

Closed loop recycling

Answer 6

recycling a product in the same product

Question 7

Waste-to-energy incinerators

Answer 7

a system in which heat generated by incineration is used as an energy source rather than released into the atmosphere

Question 8

Cercla

Answer 8

a 1980 federal act that imposes a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries, funds, the cleanup of abandoned and nonoperating hazardous waste site, and authorizes the federal government to respond directly to the release or threatened release of substances that may pose a threat to human health or the environment

Question 9

Cradle to grave system

Answer 9

a systems tool that looks at the materials used an released throughout the manufacturing, use, and disposal of a product; also known as life-cycle analysis

Question 10

Reduce

Answer 10

consume less and live a simpler and less stressful life by practicing simplicity

Question 11

Secondary recycling

Answer 11

materials are converted into different products

Question 12

Brown fields

Answer 12

An urban area of abandoned, vacant factories, warehouses, and residential sites that may be contaminated from past uses

Question 13

Dioxin

Answer 13

A family of toxic chemical compounds formed when polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are heated or burned. Dioxins are also formed as by-products in the process of chlorinating phenols, which are used in producing herbicides.

Question 14

Rcra

Answer 14

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Enacted in 1976 to give EPA “Cradle to Grave” authority on hazardous waste.

Question 15

Sanitary landfill

Answer 15

A place to deposit solid waste, where a layer of earth is bulldozed over garbage each day to reduce emissions of gases and odors from the decaying trash, to minimize fires, and to discourage vermin

Question 16

Mrf

Answer 16

material recovery facilities. Here, workers separate valuable materials to sell as raw materials. The, remaining material is recycled or burned.