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30 Cards in this Set
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One way of getting people to recycle and be aware of their waste is the "stick" called PAYT method, which means....
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Pay As You Throw
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MSW means...
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Municipal Solid Waste
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MSW is not (2things)
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Hazardous Waste & Nonhazardous industrial waste
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Is open-dump burning legal anymore?
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No
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Landfills must have a _____ to keep "garbage juice" from leaching into the groundwater.
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water impermeable liner, such as clay, or a membrane
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Many landfills collect _____ gas which can be used to heat buildings or make electricity.
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Methane (natural gas)
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Methane gas from landfills that is vented to the atmosphere is a bad idea because it is a strong _______ gas -- much more so than carbon dioxide.
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Greenhouse
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Landfills are typically have a plastic cover on them because we don't wan't ______ getting into it as it will cause creation of too much garbage juice that must be treated.
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rainwater
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NIMBY is an acronym often used with regard to landfills, incinerators, nuclear power plants, and hazardous waste sites. It stands for ....
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Not In My Back Yard
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E__________ r________ occurs as a result of NIMBYism. Poor people and minorities are often the victims.
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Environmental racism
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With regard to a landfill or an incinerator a politician might be guilty of NIMTOO. What does that mean?
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Not In My Term Of Office
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Many communities burn trash after recovering the recyclables and use the energy to make electricity. These are....
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Waste to Energy plants
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A MRF is...
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A Materials Recovery Facility and is typically a WTE plant also.
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Ashes from incinerators, such as fly ash, must be treated as...
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hazardous waste. It's not put into a regular municipal landfill.
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A big problem with incineration of trash is the amount of ___ _____ they create.
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air pollution
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Even though incinerators must comply with the Clean Air Act, they still release some...
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nasty air pollution.
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Emissions from WTE plants are not nearly as bad as from....
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fossil fuel burning electric plants
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One drawback from WTE plants is that they encourage people to .....
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throw away more trash
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One way to avoid having so much trash to discard is to....
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not buy products with so much packaging in the first place
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Why does it make sense to recycle?
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It takes way less energy to recycle than to mine virgin materials.
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What do the letters of this law mean: RCRA?
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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The RCRA set a lot of rules for...
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incineration, landfilling, recycling, and air/water pollution prevention
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The law that helps take care of abandoned waste sites is the...
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Superfund Act (CERCLA = Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
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An alternative that is even better than recycling beverage bottle would be....
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re-using beverage bottles, like we did years ago before disposable cans and bottles appeared.
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Reusing bottles makes sense because it doesn't take nearly as much ______ to wash a container as it does to melt it and make a new bottle.
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energy
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Why are plastics such a problem?
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There are many different kinds of plastic and they don't usually mix them together when recycling.
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Why do WTE's probably not recycle plastic?
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Plastic is extremely high in energy.
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What is the raw material for plastic?
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petroleum oil (same stuff we use to make gasoline)
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Can we make plastic milk jugs from old plastic milk jugs?
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NO. Plastics cannot be used to make the same food containers.
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Plastics are used in ____ or open loop recycling, not primary loops.
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Secondary
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