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All garbage, refuse, and sludge products form agriculture, forestry, mining,& municipalities.
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What is Solid Waste? (304)
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Any discarded material - not liquid or gas
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Describes substances that decompose easily and enrich the soil.
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What are Biodegradable Materials? (305)
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Any material biological organisms can break down or decompose into consumable chemical compounds.
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Trash produced by households & businesses.
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What is Municipal Solid Waste? (306)
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All garbage, refuse, & sludge products of a municipality.
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A waste-disposal facility where wastes are put in the ground & covered daily w/ a layer of dirt, plastic, or both.
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What is a Landfill? (306)
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A safer waste-disposal method since it reduces bad odors & breeding grounds for rats & flies.
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Water in landfills containing toxic materials & chemicals dissolve from wastes in a landfill.
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What is Leachate? (307)
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Ex. The Love Canal stored toxic chemicals which leached into groundwater and radiated up through the ground into homes causeing sickness, death & birth defects in babies.
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A dark, brown, crumbly material made from decomposed vegetable & animal materials used as soil conditioner.
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What is Composte? (312)
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Ex. a rubbish heap which rots & becomes nutrients for soil.
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Wastes that are toxic or highly corrosive or that explode easily.
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What are Hazardous Wastes?
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Ex. dyes, cleaners, PCBs,Insulation materials, toxic heavy metals, & radioactive wastes.
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A form of hazardous waste disposa by pumping waste deep into the ground, where they're absorbed into a dryer layer of rock below groundwater.
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What is Deep Well Injection?
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Proposed for toxic or corrosive materials.
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A settling pond for wastes with a sealed bottom for holding hazardous wastes.
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What is Surface Impoundment?
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Requires extra precautions to prevent leakage of toxic materials into groundwater.
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The process of burning solid waste material.
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What is Incineration? (309)
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If designed correctly, a safe but expensive form of waste disposal.
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The recycling of biodegradable products for human reuse.
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What is Reuse? ( ? )
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Conserving raw materials used by humans (i.e., glass, plastic, cardboard, tin, aluminum, wood, et.al. )
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Reuse of discarded materials i.e., paper, plastic, tin, cardboard, oil, aluminum, glass, et. al.
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What is Recycle? (311)
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Reusing discarded materials.
ex. cleaning used oil and reconditioning it for use. |
