Exam 16: Solid and Hazardous Waste

The availability of oil and petrochemicals effectively stalled the development of bioplastics.

In 2000, delegates from 122 countries completed a global treaty to control 12 persistent organic pollutants ( POPs) including ____.

From an environmental standpoint, the "Refuse, Reduce, and Reuse" approaches to hazardous waste are preferred because they are ____________________ approaches that tackle the problem of waste production at the front end.

In the natural world, where humans are not dominant, there is essentially no waste.

How was the Toxic Substances Control Act modified in 2016?

Some scientists and economists estimate that we could eliminate up to 80% of the solid waste by applying integrated strategies that reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.

_____________________ are chemical substances that persist in the environment and accumulate in the fatty tissues of humans and other organisms.

In primary recycling, waste products are converted into new and different products.

Explain why plastic in the ocean may be a problem.

Using blood tests and statistical sampling, medical researchers at New York City's Mount Sinai School of Medicine found that it is likely that nearly every person on the earth has detectable levels of ____ in their bodies.

Solid waste contributes to pollution and includes valuable resources that could be reused or recycled.

What do workers in countries with cheap labor use to recover valuable metals from e-waste?

Why can the United States legally transport its electronic waste when many other countries cannot?

In newer ____________________ landfills, solid wastes are spread out in thin layers, compacted, and covered daily with a fresh layer of clay or plastic foam.

Sanitary landfills typically have problems with ____.

The cradle-to-cradle approach is the same as secondary recycling.

Every year, the United States generates enough municipal solid waste to fill a bumper-to-bumper convoy of garbage trucks long enough to circle the earth's equator almost six times.

In the United States, almost two-thirds of all liquid hazardous wastes are ____.

Old dry-cell batteries are a type of ____________________ waste.

When the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas, instituted a fee-per-bag waste collection program, the proportion of households recycling their trash plummeted from 85% to 21%.