University:
Bowling Green State University
Course:
BIOL1010 | Environment of Life
Academic year:

2023
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432

Pages:

3
Author:

Brent Ritter

Managing Solid Waste Quiz Question 1 The amount of solid waste produced each year by urban dwellers is expected to _____ by 2025. stay the same decrease double quadruple Question 2 Which example is NOT a way to personally reduce your solid waste production? filling a canteen instead of using plastic water bottles buying goods with minimal packaging composting kitchen and yard wastes buying organic foods from developing countries reusing plastic shopping bags for household chores Question 3 Everyday garbage or trash (solid waste) produced by individuals or small businesses is known as: municipal solid waste. industrial solid waste. hazardous waste. biodegradable. domestic waste. Question 4 A soup company wants to reduce the waste associated with its soup packaging. Which option would help it to accomplish this goal? make the soup out of organically grown vegetables encourage consumers to burn the soup cans as a source of heat package the soup in reusable glass containers encourage the location of landfills in communities near the factory so that the surplus soup ingredients and packaging materials can be landfilled locally package the soup in smaller cans Question 5 Why is there no such thing as waste in natural, nonhuman ecosystems? There is not enough consumption to produce waste. The discarded matter of one organism becomes the resources for another. All organisms reuse their own discarded matter. There is one niche in every ecosystem that consumes all waste from the other members of the ecosystem. Waste does exist in natural ecosystems; we just can't see it. Question 6 Currently, 53% of our waste is put into landfills. According to the EPA, which of the following shows available waste management techniques in order of most preferred to least preferred? recycling/compost, incineration with energy capture, source reduction/reuse, landfilling source reduction/reuse, recycling/composting, incineration with energy capture, landfilling landfilling, recycling/composting, incineration with energy capture, source reduction/reuse source reduction/reuse, incineration with energy capture, recycling/composting, incineration without energy capture Question 7 Incinerators reduce the volume of solid waste by about: 10% to 20%. 30% to 40%. 50% to 60%. 80% to 90%. Question 8 What is the process of allowing waste to biologically decompose in the presence of oxygen and water? bioaccumulation composting recycling eutrophication hypoxia Question 9 In 2014 alone, each American produced about _____ pounds of solid waste per day. 0.5 2.5 3.2 4.44 10 Question 10 _____ waste is harmful to humans; it is toxic, flammable, corrosive, explosive, and/or radioactive. Biodegradable Municipal Hazardous Industrial

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