Test Review #10
1. Who is the largest producer of hazardous waste?
2. How are landfills made sanitary?
3. What is the best solution to the waste problem?
4. What did San Francisco ban in 2007?
5. What is RCRA for?
6. What is the definition of hazardous waste?
7. What is the largest source of unregulated hazardous waste?
8. Examples of heavy metals?
9. What material does e-waste contribute to the waste stream?
10. What percent of hazardous sites have been cleaned up?
11. What is deep-well injection?
12. What are brownfields?
13. Where does funding for the Superfund come from?
14. What is the current trend concerning e-wastes?
15. Where are low-level wastes stored?
16. What is smelting?
17. What is subsurface mining used for?
18. How does surface mining compare to subsurface mining?
19. What are tailings?
20. Which mineral is found in nodules on the ocean floor?
21. What materials are recycled for heavy metals and rare minerals?
22. What is the SRCMA law for?
23. What is the General Mining Act?
24. How can we extend the reserves of rare strategic minerals?
25. Where have geologist recently found major mineral reserve?
26. How can we attain sustainable mineral use?
27. What is the relationship between recycling, energy consumption, and economics?
28. What is acid drainage?
29. What methods are being used to heavy metal and acid pollution from mines?
30. Characteristics of metals and rocks.
31. Where do you find most of the minerals on earth?
32. Where and how is the most damaging mining done?
33. How many lbs of waste do American produce?
34. How do sanitary landfills protect against pollution??
35. What is the purpose of bottle bills??
36. Where was NYC original garbage dump?
37. What are the general statistics for curbside recycling?
38. How much energy does aluminum recycling save?
39. What is life analysis?
40. Essay- Brownfields and hazardous waste cleanup including using plants.