Hazardous Waste Flashcards
It defines hazardous waste as by-products, residues, or consumer discards that pose unreasonable risk or harm to health, safety, and the environment.
Republic Act 6969 or Toxic Substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Wastes Control Act
What are the harmful chemicals possibly present in our homes.
Cleaning, Paint, Automotive, Gardening, General
Give at least 2 acute effects of hazardous waste.
Eye & Skin Irritation
Chemical Burns
Difficulty Breathing
Headaches and Nausea
Behavioral Abnormalities
Give at least 2 chronic effects of hazardous waste.
Cancer
Genetic Mutations
Physiological Malfunctions
Physical Deformations
Birth Defects
An impact of hazardous waste on the environment where it makes the water systems unsafe for drinking and pollution.
Water Pollution
Long-term effects on the environment include signs of mutation in animals and other organisms. This is also called ______.
Chronic Toxicity
Substances produce toxic effects after just one release - this is what we refer to as ________.
Acute toxicity
A strong and cost-effective option of hazardous waste disposal practices. For medical treatments, laboratory experiments, nuclear fuel production, or radioactive ore mining.
Underground disposal
Most common and oldest method not intended for liquid waste hazardous waste disposal.
Landfill disposal
A hazardous waste disposal practice that prevent groundwater contamination.
Ocean dumping
Pumps liquid hazardous waste deep into the earth
Deep-well injection
Depressions used to treat/store/dispose hazardous waste (liquid)
Surface Impoundments
Enclosed hazardous waste in a solid material to prevent the release of contaminants into the environment
Encapsulation
Regulates the handling, treatment, and disposal of toxic and hazardous substances, and requires businesses to report their use of such materials.
Republic Act of 6969
Establishes a national solid waste management system, including provisions for hazardous waste disposal, labeling, and collection
Republic Act No. 9003
