Semester 1 Exam Review - Part 4 (17.3, 17.4)

A "low-waste" economy requires society (individuals, governments and business/industry to work toward (1) ________ and (2) ________ most solid and hazardous waste.

• Reclaim
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Replace
• Recover

Who said "A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it.”

• George Washington
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Sir Edward Locke

The "zero waste" movement finds cafeterias and restaurants, national parks and corporations participating in programs that (1) _______ (2) _________ (3) __________ all waste.

• Reclaim
• Recycle
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recover

Why do individuals and grassroots organizations participate in campaigns to prevent the construction of hundreds of incinerators, landfills and treatment plants for hazardous and radioactive waste?

• The treatment plants are too expensive
• The participants fear health risks from the treatment facilities in their neighborhood.
• The participants are just generally against anything their government does.
• The participants want the government to force "zero waste" on everyone so the treatment facilities aren't needed.

What does the acronym "NIMBY" stand for?

• nobody in any brown yearlings
• not in my back yard
• never if my boar yodels
• nice inside my bare yokemate
• not on planet Earth

The Basel Convention treaty

• bans participating countries from shipping hazardous waste to or through other countries without their permission
• allows participating countries to hold annual conventions for sharing ideas related to nasal afflictions
• allows participating countries to freely ship non-hazardous waste any where in the world
• bans the production, sale or transportaion of radioactive material other than for military purposes

The United States is the only industrialized nation that can export its e-waste legally because it has not ratified the Basel Convention.

• true
• false

Every year, the United States generates enough municipal solid waste to fill a bumper-to-bumper convoy of garbage trucks long enough to circle Earth’s Equator almost six times.

• true
• false

Denmark, Finland, and the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island have banned all ____ that cannot be reused.

• batteries
• plastics
• packaging
• beverage containers

In nature, the waste outputs of one organism become the nutrient inputs of another organism, so that all of Earth’s nutrients are endlessly recycled. Applying this concept to industry and manufacturing is called _____.

• biomanufacturing
• environmental sustainability
• environmental economics
• biomimicry
• eco-industrialization