HEA 316 ch 17 hw, ch 17 quiz
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Rising volumes of solid waste in the U.S. are primarily related to an increase in population.
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false
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Plastics constitute the single largest portion of the municipal solid sate stream by volume
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false
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Historically, cities have given much greater importance to regular collection of refuse than to proper disposal of such materials.
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true
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Open dumps are now illegal throughout the U.S.
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true
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Landfilling must always be an integral part of any comprehensive waste management plan, since some wastes cannot be disposed of in any other way
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false
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The major obstacle to increasing the percentage of municipal refuse recycled has been the unwillingness of most people to collect such materials and bring them to collection centers.
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false
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Approximately 30% of all municipal refuse could easily be composted.
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true
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Generators of hospital infectious wastes and radioactive wastes do not have to comply with the RCRA regulations for hazardous waste management.
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true
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The law does not prohibit householders to throw out old pesticides, solvents, or other hazardous chemical wastes with their trash.
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true
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Thanks to the high priority the federal government has given the Superfund program, process in cleaning up abandoned waste sites has been rapid and it is expected that, within the next decade, the problem will largely have been solved.
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false
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Which of the following plants constitutes an effective hyperaccumulator of arsenic?
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brake fern
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What is the National Priority List (NPL)?
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names of abandoned hazardous waste sites considered dangerous enough to qualify them for federal cleanup funds
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Which of the following categories of wastes are not subject to regulation as RCRA hazardous wastes?
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radioactive
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What provision of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is aimed at eliminating midnight dumping and ensuring proper disposal of hazardous wastes?
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instituting a manifest system for documenting all wastes moving off the generatorâ s property and identifying the final disposition of such wastes
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Subtitle D regulations pertain to stricter standards for
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sanitary landfill design and operations
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Because it is the most economical of the legal methods of urban refuse disposal, more communities choose this waste disposal option than any other
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sanitary landfilling
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The EPA and many state governments have ranked the various options for municipal solid waste management in order of priority. Which method does EPA regard as the most desirable?
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waste reduction at the source
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What constitutes the single largest portion, by weight, of all municipal wastes in the U. S. today?
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paper
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EPA's \"Brownfields\" program is intended to
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provide funding and regulatory relief to potential buyers of chemically contaminated abandoned properties
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What does an MRF do?
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centralized facility to which mixed recyclables are sent for processing prior to being shipped to secondary materials users
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Which of the following statements about bioremediation is false?
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most of the bioremediation projects carried out to date have utilized genetically engineered microbes
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From a health and environmental quality standpoint, what is the least desirable method for disposal of hazardous wastes?
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secure chemical landfill
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To what pervasive problem does the \"NIMBY\" syndrome pertain?
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the difficulty of finding sites for waste management facilities because of intense public opposition
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Which of the following statements about e-waste is false?
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unlike the situation in Europe, e-scrap recycling and processing has thus far attracted little attention or enthusiasm within the North American recycling industry
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Approximately what percentage of municipal refuse in the U.S. is currently being recycled or composted?
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33%
