Waste And Gas Vocab

Question 0

Gases produced by the breakdown of organic material, usually in anaerobic conditions

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Biogas

Question 1

Any material that is broken down by ordinary biological means

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Biodegradable

Question 2

Concentration of a substance as it moves up the food chain

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Biomagnification

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The use of natural cycles or systems to solve human problems

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Biomimicry

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A substance that dissolve, destroy or damage other substances it contacts

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Corrosive

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Environmental protection agency, the federal gov on charge of protection of air, water and soil

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EPA

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Any waste that is dangerous or harmful to humans or the environment

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Hazardous waste

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Will burn

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Ignitable

Question 8

Trash that is discarded daily from homes and businesses

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Municipal solid waste

Question 9

Not in my back yard

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NIMBY

Question 10

The end of the waste generating cycle or the end of the life of the object, often what we throw away at home

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Post consumer waste

Question 11

Waste generated in the manufacture of a product, disposed of by the manufacture

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Pre consumer waste

Question 12

Unstable and susceptible to hazardous decomposition

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Reactive

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Using waste as raw material

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Recycle

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The selective extraction of disposed material and made available for new use

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Resource recovery

Question 15

Trash, rubbish, garbage the stuff we throw away

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Solid waste

Question 16

Site of significant contamination, too expensive for an individual company to clean up and is cleaned up with tax payer money

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Superfund site

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Poisonous material capable of injury or causing death

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Toxic

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Generating energy from the break down of waste

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Waste to energy