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15 Cards in this Set
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this country banned incinerators in 1985
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sweden
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highly toxic form of mercury
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methol
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these contain waste below a landfill
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liner
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state where first public school used methane from a landfill for heating
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missouri
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this country's paper has been Cl-free since the early 1990's
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germany
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using extreme temperatures to convert hazardous material into atoms and ions
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pyrolosis
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these impoundments store liquid hazardous waste
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surface
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these collect methane gas
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pipes
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these contain waste below a landfill
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liner
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barrels used to contain hazardous waste
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drums
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4.6% of the world's population
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33% of the world's waste
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1.5%
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municipial waste
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49% recycling rate in U.S. as compared with
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43% world recycling waste
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polythylene terphthalate
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soda bottle plastic
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Superfund Act:
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1. identifies hazardous waste
2. protects/cleans nearby groundwater 3. cleaning up sites 4. when possible, requires guilty to clean |
