Exam 21: Solid, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste

Evaluate the use of dumps, sanitary landfills, and modern secure landfills in disposing of waste. In your evaluation provide the pros and cons and the context for which each disposal method would best work.

Explain how incinerator ash can become toxic when the initial material that is incinerated is not toxic.

The original pool of money available for Superfund cleanup projects was financed by taxes on the producers of toxic and hazardous wastes. Now, public taxes are the major sources.

For each pound of waste produced by a person in Europe or Japan, on average, _________ is produced in the U.S.

Chemical processing is a way of __________ hazardous waste for safe disposal.

About 80 percent of E-waste is shipped overseas

In order to find specific information about toxic materials in your neighborhood, you would consult the

Recycling, in terms of solid waste management, means

Biodegradable plastics may incorporate _______ to speed breakdown processes.

In the case of sanitary landfills, the cost of disposing of wastes is _____ as technology provides safer alternatives.

Recycling aluminum is most important for

A site for a children's playground and an industrial site have different criteria for cleanup.

The cheapest option of the "three Rs" is most often

Using a refillable beverage container (returnable bottles) would be an example of __________ materials.

Which of the following is NOT a major toxic pollutant produced by incinerators?

According to the Household Disposal Guide, what is the best way to dispose of your aerosol cans (hairspray, bug spray, furniture polish, etc.)?

A mass burn is the incineration of

The per-ton cost of waste disposal is projected to continue to rise as fewer acceptable sites for waste disposal become available.

________ is/are readily recyclable.

Energy recovery is another term for _______ waste.