1. Waste Terms Waste Reduction Landfills Hazardous Waste Materials Economy $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

2. What is surface impoundment?

3. A pond that has a sealed bottom

4. What is source reduction?

5. Any change in design, manufacture, purchase or use of materials to reduce their amount of toxicity before becoming a solid waste

6. What is the term for materials broken down by natural biological processes?

7. Biodegradable

8. A dark, brown, crumbly material made from decomposed plant matter

9. Compost

10. The process of removing renewable and non-renewable resources from the Earth

11. Extraction

12. Most of our trash is made up of this recyclable product.

13. Paper Grass clippings/leaves

14. Throwing your unwanted/ unfinished food into this helps the environment.

15. composter

16. This plant has been used to monitor air pollution

17. Lichen

18. By planting one tree, this many pounds of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere annually

19. 29 pounds

20. The percentage of waste in landfills that could be recycled

21. 70%

22. What is Leachate?

23. Water than come in contact with garbage

24. Where is the GARBAGE ISLAND located?

25. West Pacific Gyre

26. What was used to help clean up the BP Oil Spill?

27. Bio- remediation

28. What type of gas is formed from decaying landfills?

29. Methane

30. 1% of U.S. landfills are filled with this item, which takes 500 years to decompose.

31. Disposable Diapers

32. Name a Household Hazardous waste

33. Paint, gas, air freshener cleaners of any kind

34. Name two characteristics of a hazardous waste.

35. Toxic chemicals, poisonous, flammable, And Not recyclable

36. Where are most hazardous wastes placed?

37. In a landfill

38. Suppose someone dumped left over motor oil on a driveway. What does it contaminate?

39. Air, ground water, soil

40. What is the primary concern of mishandled hazardous waste?

41. It can make people sick

42. What are the five parts of the Materials Economy?

43. Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal

44. What is the Golden Arrow of Consumption?

45. To Shop

46. What is perceived obsolesce?

47. Marketing to make you want to purchase things you really don’t need---You suck if you don’t have it

48. What is planned obsolesce?

49. Designed for the Dump

50. What is a disadvantage of incinerating waste?

51. Toxins in then toxins out in air

52. FINAL JEOPARDY

53. What does NIMBY stand for?

54. Not In My Backyard!