Solid and Hazardous Waste

Passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal

• Superfund Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Clean Water Act
• Clean Air Act

Passed in 1980 to set aside money for cleanup of hazardous waste sites

• Superfund Act
• No Child Left Behind
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Energy Conservation Act

Pumping wastes below groundwater level

• recycling
• incineration
• composting
• deep-well injection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Toxic, corrosive, or explosive material

• solid waste
• hazardous waste
• municipal waste
• plant waste

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Which regulation requires hazardous waste producers to document how waste is handled?

• Superfund Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• Landfill Act
• Hazardous Waste Act

Surface impoundment is a method for

• packing a landfill down
• disposing of hazardous waste by bringing it to the surface
• disposing of hazardous waste by allowing it to settle out and evaporate  in a pond
• recovering raw material from manufactured goods

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Makes up most of the municipal solid waste

• paper
• plastic
• manufacturing waste
• leachate

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

A liquid that has passed through compacted solid waste

• oil
• leachate
• fertilizer
• battery acid

Garbage produced by households and businesses

• hazardous waste
• school lunch
• municipal solid waste
• city water

Cannot be broken down by biological processes

• plant waste
• paper
• plastic
• yard waste

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3