Sustainability Issues Key Terms Flashcards

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Sustainability

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The ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations.

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Reduction (waste)

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Reducing the amount of packaging for products.

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Energy recovery

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Waste can be converted into energy, the main method this is done by is incineration.

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Composting

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Organic waste can be used to make compost to fertilise gardens or farmland

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Anaerobic digestion

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Large scale composting taking place in an enclosed reactor.

Produces biogas which can be used for an energy supply. Expensive to set up.

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Landfill

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Dumping waste is old quarries or hollows. Leaching can be a byproduct as can the release of methane gas

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Pay as you throw schemes

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Schemes in which the more waste a household throws out, the more they are charged

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Suburb

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An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one

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The brown agenda

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The range of environmental problems experienced by cities in the developing world

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