Final Exam Study Flashcards
Beaches in the Hawaiian archipelago
Covered In trash… 5-10 feet
Plastic sand
What are tears/nurdles?
The small fragments of plastic produced by photo degradation
Environmental racism
The intentional siting of hazardous waste sites, landfills, industries etc. in communities inhabited by minority ethnicities and the working poor
Environmental justice
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, colour, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws/policies
EPR
Extended producer strategy
Accountability over the entire life cycle of products and packaging.
Note PRO- producer responsibility organization is a third party the producer may delegate the responsibility of spent products to
3 approaches to EPR
Regulated
Negotiated
Voluntary
True or false
EPR directly dictates clean production
False.
It does indirectly promote it however
Prohibited under Section 27 of the EPA
The establishment, use or operation of a waste disposal site without an moe issued CofA
O. Regs 101-104/94
Recycling/composting
Waste audits and reduction plans
Source separation programs
Packaging audits and packaging reduction plans
Bill 201 was created in what year and does what?
1989
Allows counties to assume responsibility for the municipal waste management function
When was the waste management act created?
1970
CofA’s first being issued
What important plan was first introduced by the moe in 1983?
The blueprint for waste management
Introduced the 4 rs Established authority over waste Proposed generator regulation Quantified and classified waste in Ontario Proposed revisions to regs 309&313
List the regulations used for each
Recycling and composting
Waste audits and reduction work plans
Industrial, commercial source separation programs
Packaging/reduction
101/94
102/94
103/94
104/94
EPA regulations concerning waste
341 342 347 232/98 101/94 102/94 103/94 104/94 206/97 362 (pcbs)
EAs are required for what type of projects?
New landfills/ expansions
Sewage treatment plants
Water treatment plants
Hydro electric plants
What is a buffer area?
The part of the landfill ing site that is not used for waste fill
Contaminant attenuation zone
A 3d zone that is
A) located on adjacent land
B) is in the subsurface or extends into
C) is used for the attenuation of contaminants
Contminating life span
The period of time in which a landfill site will produce contaminants at concentrations that would be unacceptable if they were to migrate offsite
Primary leachate collection system
Secondary leachate collection system
Primary liner
Secondary liner
Uppermost collection system
Beneath the main collection system
Uppermost liner below waste fill zone
Located under primary liner
The regulation On Landfilling sites
232/98
Any landfills created after august 1st 1998
Any landfills altered or expanded after august 1 1998
How much msw is hhw?
.5%
Regulation 232/98
Contaminant attenuation zone
Buffer areas
Hydro geological assessments
Final slopes of a landfill
One unit vertical to four horizontal
These documents must be used together to understand full extent of waste legislation
EPA
347
Registration guidance manual for generators of liquid industrial and hazardous wastes
Final landfill cover
0.6 m
What reg is cradle to the grave?
Reg 347
Reg 309 wAs introduced in what year?
1983
Hazardous waste
The classification of waste streams and landfill acceptance
4 basic processes that affect the transport of dilutes in groundwater
Advection
Dispersion
Diffusion
Retardation (or attenuation)
Process through which moving groundwater carries with it dissolved solutes down gradient
Advection
Dispersion that occurs in the direction of groundwater flow
Longitudinal dispersion
Processes that slow or retard movement of contaminants
Attenuation/retardation
Two classes of solutes
Conservative
Reactive
Process by which ionic and molecular species in water move from areas of high concentrations to areas of lower concentrations, until even distribution occurs
Diffusion
Landfill stabilization phases
Initial adjustment Transition (aerobic to anaerobic) acid formation (lowered ph) Methane fermentation Final maturation
