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Solid Waste Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. What by-product from oil producing gasoline can be heated and stretched to become plastic products?
2. Which legislation calls for listing hazardous waste to use in cradle-to-grave tracking?
3. Love Canal tragedy in New York triggered a massive environmental cleanup because it was filled with years of dumping in
4. What is a cost of using incinerators?
5. Makes up most of the municipal solid waste
6. Solid waste has increased through the years. What is CAUSING more solid waste?
7. The most common material that makes up landfill waste is
8. What is precycling?
9. What is one of the second priorities of Integrated Waste Management?
10. Which of the following are problems associated with incinerators?
11. It is the direct use of living green plants for in situ (in place) removal, degradation, or containment of contaminants in soils, sludges, sediments, surface water and groundwater.
12. The average American throws away about how many pounds of trash per day?
13. How many pounds of solid waste does the average person living in the united states produce each day?
14. Leftover rock and ore from mineral extraction.
15. Which type of waste is typically disposed of in a regular landfill?
16. An example of source reduction is
17. All these wastes are biodegradable.
18. Measured by the amount of Ca2+ and Mg2+.
19. Which of the below is not an idea behind solid waste management?
20. Which is NOT part of the cradle-to-cradle concept proposed by William McDonough?
21. Which U.S. legislation is designed to track hazardous waste from cradle to grave?
22. What solid waste management refers to making a new product from a material that already served its purpose?
23. Electronic waste or e-waste is typically shipped to lesser developed countries to be 'recycled' because
24. All of the following would be classified as hazardous waste EXCEPT:
25. Like all means of waste disposal, deep well injection of hazardous waste has both advantages and disadvantages. Which of the following is a disadvantage of deep-well injection?
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