Chp. 14

With respect to a green lifestyle which of the following is preferred?

Recycling is less preferred than reducing, and less than reusing.

The major disadvantage of incinerating waste is

-Air Pollution -cost more in landfills

Urban areas that are not being redeveloped due to toxic contamination are called _______.

Brownfield's

Which of the following is one of the greatest sources of toxic wastes exported from the U.S. to developing countries today?

E-waste

Currently, plastics make up over 40% of the total weight of municipal solid waste produced in the United States.

False

Industrial waste—other than mining and mineral production—amounts to some 900 million metric tons per year in the United States.

False

Salt mines and bedrock caverns are commonly used as safe, secure landfills where materials do not need to be monitored.

False

Millions of tons of plastic drink bottles, bottle caps, plastic shopping bags, and other plastic debris are trapped in the ocean at the

North Pacific Gyre

_______ requires generators, shippers, users, and disposers of hazardous materials to keep records of handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials.

RCRA

Landfill gas is the result of the decomposition of organic waste within a landfill and is a potential source of methane fuel for generating electricity

True

One disadvantage of municipal landfills is the production of methane, the largest source of anthropogenic methane within the U.S. today.

True

Raw trash has a lower-energy content than refuse-derived fuel because the latter has a higher fraction of enriched burnable materials.

True

The EPA estimates that U.S. industries generate about 900 million tons of hazardous wastes each year.

True

Nearly half of the solid waste produced in the U.S. today is

agricultural waste

Secure landfills are those that

bath tub lid

Two of the products of anaerobic composting municipal solid waste are

compost and methane

Which of the following is NOT currently a hazardous waste classification?

irritant

In order to combat the problem of landfill methane several European countries ban the disposal of ___________ in landfills.

organic waste

About ______ of aluminum cans are recycled today.

1/2

Currently, ____% of all municipal solid waste in the U.S. is incinerated.

13%

Since _____ industries are no longer required to pay Superfund taxes and the public has become responsible for clean ups.

1995

The estimated 700 million metric tons of landfill methane produced annually, represents about 12 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions because methane is _____ times as potent at absorbing heat as CO2.

20

An estimated 200 million liters of motor oil waste is dumped into the sewers of the U.S. every year. This is ____________ as the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989.

5x as much

Dr. Bullard in Dumping on Dixie contends that _______.

All of the above

Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: Single-use beverage containers have been outlawed in Denmark and Finland BECAUSE landfills are a large anthropogenic source of methane.

The assertion and the reason are both correct, but the reason is invalid.