ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Question 1

Study of relationships between living and non-living parts of the world

Answer 1

Ecology

Question 2

first to use the word to name the study of how organisms fit into their
environment.

Answer 2

Ernst Haeckel (1866)

Question 3

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, CREATING THE NECESSARY INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS AND INCENTIVES,
DECLARING CERTAIN ACTS PROHIBITED AND PROVIDING PENALTIES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Answer 3

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9003

Question 4

refers to the systematic
administration of activities
which provide for
segregation at source,
segregated transportation,
storage, transfer,
processing, treatment, and
disposal of solid waste and
all other waste management
activities which do not
harm the environment.

Answer 4

ECOLOGICAL SOLID
WASTE MANAGEMENT

Question 5

refers to all discarded household,
commercial waste, nonhazardous
institutional and industrial waste,
street sweeping, construction
debris, agricultural waste and
other non-hazardous and
non-toxic solid waste.

Answer 5

SOLID WASTE

Question 6

CLASSIFICATION
OF SOLID WASTE

Answer 6

COMPOSTABLE WASTES, RECYCLABLE WASTES, RESIDUAL WASTES, SPECIAL WASTES

Question 7

biodegradable wastes such as
food waste, garden waste,
animal waste and human waste.

Answer 7

COMPOSTABLE WASTES

Question 8

refer to any waste material
retrieved from the waste stream
and free from contamination
that can still be converted into
suitable beneficial use

Answer 8

RECYCLABLE WASTES

Question 9

solid waste materials that are
non-compostable and
non-recyclable

Answer 9

RESIDUAL WASTES

Question 10

refer to household hazardous
wastes

Answer 10

SPECIAL WASTES

Question 11

the process of
collecting and
processing materials
that would otherwise
be thrown away as
trash and turning them
into new products.

Answer 11

Recycling