Waste Management
Chapter 30
What is e-waste?
What is the average life span of a computer?
Explain how many countries including the U. S. dispose of e-waste.
Define dilute and disperse
Discuss three limiting factors in terms of waste management
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Explain the zero waste movement
Explain what is known as industrial ecology
How is methane produced from a landfill an example of industrial ecology?
How can a hypothetical coal burning electrical power plant be used as an example of
industrial ecology?
Discuss how increasing taxes can lead to a reduction in waste management
List the 6 management alternatives under integrated waste management
List the 3 R’s of IWM
What is the ultimate purpose of the 3 R’s?
Describe the 3 strategies that can reduce urban waste by 50%
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Describe three impacting changes in industry or business regarding recycling resulting
from public support of recycling
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What problems occur with the recycling of night soil
Describe 5 ways the goals under material management can be pursued
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Explain how the following are examples of material management
Steel from scrap metal
Paper from recycled paper
Make a table or a chart that shows the composition of municipal solid waste in the U. S.
Describe the processes involved with an example of the following methods of solid waste
disposal
On-site disposal
Composting
Incineration
Open dumps
Sanitary landfills
What is leachate and why is it of concern?
Diagram and label a most desirable landfill site in a humid environment
For each labeled item in the diagram explain why its position or composition is important
in managing the solid waste
Clay and silt
Water table
Limestone
Why is monitoring the following important in solid waste disposal?
Leachate
Gases
Describe 8 pathways in which pollutants from solid waste disposal sites can enter the
environment
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Diagram and label an idealized sanitary landfill facility
What is the importance of multiple barriers in a sanitary landfill facility?
Place in order of most important actions you can take to reduce the waste you gnerate
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Define hazardous waste
List 3 indiscriminate hazardous waste practices of the past
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When and where was the Love Canal hazardous waste episode?
Summarize what happened at Love Canal (AP test will involve knowing this)
What was the total cost for cleanup?
What is the area currently used for?
What is the purpose of RCRA?
Describe the 4 main objectives of CERCLA
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Similarities
Secure Landfill Sanitary landfill
Discuss how land application is a method of disposing certain industrial waste materials.
How is deep-well injection a viable means of managing hazardous waste?
Explain how each of the following work as alternatives to land based disposal methods
Source reduction
Recycling and resource recovery
Treatment
Incineration
Describe how the case study involving a Wisconsin cheese making firm is an example of
a P-2 approach.