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Botkin and Keller Chapter 24 Reading Guide

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APES Chapter 24 Study Guide 1. What state is the Love Canal located? 2. Name the company that was responsible for dumping toxic and cancer-causing wastes into an old canal excavation called the Love Canal. 3. After Love Canal was abandoned, what was it sold and used for? 4. The Love Canal illustrates which of the following? ? that preventing pollution is safer and cheaper than cleaning it up ? that political officials are alert and sympathetic to their constituents ? that pollutants can be stored safely underground for a long time ? that polluting companies can escape from the costs and responsibility of their actions 5. The U.S. is about 5% of the world?s population and produces about what % of the world?s solid waste?

APES 10th edition Chapter 18 questions

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Chris Nowak 3/22/13 Ch. 18 Paper, yard waste, metals, plastics, food wastes, glass, wood, rubber, other. 30.6% recycling, 14% combustion, 55.4% landfills leachate generation and groundwater contamination, methane production, incomplete decomposition, settling. The things listed above damage and harm the environment. For example, groundwater contamination lessens the availability for drinking water. Everyone wants to get rid of the waste, but nobody wants to take the waste. We must recycle more and conserve our resources. Good: Easy conversion, lessens weight, and resource recovery.?Bad: Air and odor pollutant, wastes energy and resources.
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