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Solid Waste Quiz 12 (25 MCQs)

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1. Suppose a crew of two people requires 2 minutes per stop, at which they can servicefour customers. If each customer generates 56 lb of refuse per week, how many customerscan they service if they did not have to go to the landfill, knowing that the crew has 6 productive hrs in a day?
2. Which is a liquid found in landfills resulting from dissolved garbage?
3. What is a Superfund Site?
4. What is a solution that reduces impacts of human activities on the environment and reduces solid waste?
5. Known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s.
6. Measured on the pH scale.
7. Turning aluminum soda cans into more aluminum soda cans is an example of
8. From 1970 to the present, the percentage of waste that is recycled has
9. What is one of the first priorities of Integrated Waste Management?
10. Which is a disadvantage of burning solid waste in an incinerator?
11. Which of the following is a direct effect of recycling?
12. An energy transformation occurs and results in increased disorder.
13. Water from rainfall drips through a landfill. The water collects poisons, bacteria, and dirt as it falls through the landfill. New landfills have an thick plastic liner and complex bottom layers to trap water containing runoff contaminants from the landfill. This water is called _____
14. Method of detoxifying hazardous waste by electrically producing high temperatures that vaporizes trash in the absence of oxygen
15. Plastics are made from
16. Where does most waste end up?
17. Enriches the soil
18. Why is a metal lining in a landfill a bad idea?
19. Which one of the following hazardous-waste disposal methods typically stores wastes below the groundwater level?
20. Which type of waste can be mostly reused?
21. How much plastic is produced every year?
22. Exemplified by ticks feeding on a deer.
23. Most of the municipal solid waste in the world is
24. Solid-waste management is defined as
25. Waste that comes from production of consumer goods, mining, agriculture, and fossil fuel extraction.
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