Chapter 21 Vocab

Question 0

Water with various pollutants in it

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Leachate

Question 1

The total of all materials thrown away from homes and small businesses.

Answer 1

Municipal Solid Watse (MSW)

Question 2

The federal program with the responsibility of cleaning up sites that are an imminent danger of jeopardizing human health through water contamination.

Answer 2

Superfund

Question 3

A highly flammable mixture of gas containing methan, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide, which is produced as a by product of anaerobic decomposition of waste material.

Answer 3

Biogas

Question 4

The practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials in ways that reduce the amount of toxicity of the trash created.

Answer 4

Source Reduction

Question 5

A process in which the original waste material is amde back into the same material

Answer 5

Primary Recycling

Question 6

Waste materials are made into different products that may or may not be recyclable

Answer 6

Secondary Recyling

Question 7

Its purpose is to sort a mixed stream of waste materials for eventual recycling

Answer 7

Material Recovery Facilities

Question 8

A system that uses several approaches to deal with our nation’s solid waste problems

Answer 8

Integrated Waste Management (IWM)

Question 9

A program for bringing about waste reduction.

Answer 9

Extended Product Responsibility (EPR)

Question 10

An EPA-sponsored program that targets the reduction of municipal solid waste by a number of partnerships.

Answer 10

Waste Wise

Question 11

Any of a broad array of electronic devices that are discarded and often are hazardous to handle and difficult to recycle.

Answer 11

E-watse

Question 12

Gave jurisdiction of solid waste to the bureau of solid waste managment

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Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965

Question 13

Gave jurisdiction over waste Managment to the newly created EPA and directed attention to recycling programs.

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Resource Recovery Act of 1970

Question 14

Give the EPA power to close local dumps and set regulations for landfills

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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976

RCRA

Question 15

Addresses abandoned hazardous waste sites

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The Superfund Act of 1980

Question 16

Gave the EPA greater responsibility to set solid wast criteria for all hazardous waste facilities

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Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984

Question 17

Gives local and state the authroity to limit out of state waste transported to landfills

Answer 17

Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2009