9757355332 | Waste | any unwanted material or substance that results from a human activity or process | 0 | |
9757355333 | Municipal Solid Waste | waste from homes, institutions, and small businesses | 1 | |
9757355334 | Industrial Solid Waste | from production of goods, mining, agriculture, petroleum extraction and refining | 2 | |
9757355335 | Hazardous Waste | Solid or liquid waste that is toxic, chemically reactive, flammable, or corrosive | 3 | |
9757355336 | Waste Stream | the flow of Waste as it moves from its source to its disposal destinations | 4 | |
9757355337 | Sanitary Landfills | -waste buried in the ground or piled in large mounds to prevent contamination and health threats -must be lined with clay and plastic | 5 | |
9757355338 | Leachate | -liquid from trash dissolved by rainwater -collected and treated in landfills | 6 | |
9757355339 | Incineration | -a controlled process that burns garbage at high temperatures | 7 | |
9757355340 | Waste-to-Energy(WTE) facilities | -use heat produced by waste combustion to create electricity | 8 | |
9757355341 | Landfill Gas | -bacterial decomposition creates a mix of gases that consists of 50% methane -can be collected, produced, and used like natural gas | 9 | |
9757355342 | Source Reductions | minimizing the amount of waste generate | 10 | |
9757355343 | Surface Impoundment | -store liquid hazardous waste -shallow depressions are lined with plastic and clay -liquid or slurry evaporates | 11 | |
9757355344 | Compost | remnants of food that can be made into an organic fertilizer | 12 | |
9757355345 | Deep Well Injection | -a well is drilled beneath the water table -waste is injected into it -long term disposal method | 13 | |
9757355346 | Electronic Waste | -waste involving electronic devices -computers, printers, cell phones, TVs | 14 | |
9757355347 | Industrial Ecology | nothing is hazardous waste | 15 | |
9757355348 | NIMBY | not in my backyard | 16 | |
9757355349 | Open Loop Recycling | item is recycled and made into other items | 17 | |
9757355350 | Closed Loop Recycling | item is recycled and made into the same item | 18 | |
9757355351 | Love Canal | a canal that was made into a landfill then built on; people who lived there got really sick | 19 | |
9757355352 | Waste Management | different ways of managing waste | 20 | |
9757355353 | Brownfields (brownfield sites) | a refurbished site/piece of land that was used for pollutants/waste and is now built up | 21 |
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