Exam 15: Waste: What Happens to All the Stuff We Use

Select the statement that describes how incineration differs from simple combustion of waste.

The extensive processing required for recycling makes it more challenging economically.

Explain why the process of recycling plastic is much more difficult than the process of recycling paper, and then provide two possible solutions to the challenge of recycling plastic.

The conversion waste management strategy is most often used to

technologies combust solid waste first and then perform secondary combustion of the resulting gases.

Which phrase correctly describes the waste stream?

What was the goal of the Basel Convention?

Which strategy involves burning waste without energy recovery or pollution controls?

Make a list of everything you have thrown away in the last 24 hours. Which of the items on your list could have been recycled, composted, reused, or repurposed? Which of the items on your list were not truly necessary to acquire or purchase?

At a café, Faith receives a plastic straw in her glass of water. She did not request the straw and knows that it will be discarded after her meal. Which scenario is the most direct and beneficial way to reduce waste?

Using recycled glass bottles to produce new bottles is an example of

Which of the phrases characterizes how a sanitary landfill improves on the problems associated with open dumps?

Select the phrase that describes conspicuous consumption.

What happens to waste in the geologic disposal strategy?

Select the process that converts waste material from a product into a different sort of product.

Which air pollutant is produced in open dumps, is explosive, and contributes to climate change?

Which term refers to the liquid that forms when rainwater or groundwater mixes with decomposing waste at the dump?

The increased demand for prepared foods in disposable plastic packaging was attributed to a

Select the example of an "upstream" process in the waste stream.