Solid Waste

Question 1

What are solid wastes?

Answer 1

Not gaseous or liquid such as durable and non durable goods,

containers, packaging, food scraps, yard trimmings etc.

Question 2

What are municipal solid wastes?

Answer 2

Solid waste from residential, commercial, institutional and industrial sources. DOES NOT INCLUDE construction waste, automobile bodies, municipal sludge’s, combustion ash and industrial process waste

Question 3

What is garbage?

Answer 3

Animal and vegetable residue from prep, cooking and serving of food. DOES NOT INCLUDE processing facilities i.e. slaughter houses

Question 4

What is rubbish?

Answer 4

Old tins cans, newspapers, tires, packaging materials, bottles, yard trimmings, plastics etc. Rubbish DOES NOT INCLUDE garbage

Question 5

What is trash?

Answer 5

Combustible portion of rubbish

Question 6

What is generation?

Answer 6

Amounts of materials and products that enter the waste stream

Question 7

What is materials recovery?

Answer 7

Removal of materials from the waste stream for purposes of recycling or composting

Question 8

What are discards?

Answer 8

Solid waste that remains after materials are removed for recycling or composting

These materials are either buried or burned

Question 9

Waste generation =

Answer 9

Materials Recovered + Discards

Question 10

What are the steps of solid waste management?

Answer 10

1. Source Reduction
2. Reuse
3. Recycling
4. Resource Recovery
5. Incineration
6. Landfilling

Question 11

What are the Green Product Strategies?

Answer 11

Material Selection
Product System Life Extension
Material Life Extension
Reduced Material Intensiveness
Process Management
Efficient Distribution

Question 12

What does recycling include?

Answer 12

Process includes the collection, separation and processing of waste stream products into new forms that are sold to manufacturers and finally
purchased as a new product with reprocesses materials