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threatens human health or the environment because it is toxic, chemically active, corrosive, or flammable
any discarded solid or liquid material that is toxic, ignitable, corrosive, or reactive enough to explode or release toxic fumes
Ex: industrial solvents, hospital medical waste, and car batteries |
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aka garbage or trash
produced directly by homes and workplaces
Ex: paper, food scraps, and cans |
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| produced indirectly by mines, facteries, and refineries that supply people with goods and services |
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consists of discarded TV sets, cell phones, and other anodic devices
source of tocic and hazardous wastes |
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family of more than 75 similar chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds
form as unwanted by-products in combustion of chlorine compounds in a number of industrial processes |
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a high-loss approach that manages these losses in ways that reduce environmental harm.
It mixes losses and then transfers them from one part of the environment to another. |
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| integrated waste management |
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| a variety of strategies for both waste reduction and waste management |
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low-waste approach
views solid losses as potential resources that should not be produced
we should be reusing, recycling, or composting |
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| consume less and live a simpler life by practicing voluntary simplicity |
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| rely more on items that can be employed over and over instead of on throwaway items |
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| separate andconvert paper, glass, and other items and buy products made from pre-owned materials |
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| materials are converted into new products of the same type |
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| materials are converted into different products |
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| materials-recovery facilities |
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machines or workers separate the mixed waste to recover valuable materials for sale to manufacture as raw materials
the remaining combustible wastes are recycled or burned to produce steam or electricity to run the plant or to sell to nearby industries or homes |
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we copy nature to secycle biodegradable organic wastes we produce
the organic material produced can be added to soil to supply plant nutrients, slow soil erosion, retain water, and improve crop yields |
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| waste-to-energy incinerators |
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| boil water to make steam for heating water or space, or for producting electricity |
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| fields or holes in the ground where garbage is deposited and sometimes covered with soil |
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| solid wastes are spread out in thin layers, compacted, and covered daily with a fresh layer of clay or plastic foam, which helps keeps the material dry and reduces leakage of contaminated water |
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| rainwater contaminated as it percolates through solid waste |
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| superfund hazardous waste sites |
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| 1/5 of this are former municipal landfills |
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| Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
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regulates legally defined hazardous waste produced in the US
prevents unsafe and illegal disposal of hazardous wastes on land |
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| permit holders must use __________ to keep track of waste they transfer from a point of generation to an aproved offsite disposal or hazardous waste treatment system and submit proof of this to EPA |
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