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Assignment Five |
After doing lessons ten and eleven, please answer the following questions.
To answer some of the questions you have to visit the links (web sites) on every lesson.
Also, you may used the text book to answer some of the questions. Please answer the questions in MS word,
attach your answers to an e-mail and send it to me. Please be clear and precise, use complete sentences.
- Name and describe the most common method of solid waste disposal approved by the EPA.
- Describe waste to energy incineration. What are some of its advantage and disadvantage?
- What are medical wastes? Who regulates them?
- What are hazardous wastes?
- What types of hazardous wastes can be found in a household?
- What is the meaning of the three R's in solid waste treatment? Give an example for each one of them.
- What is the Waste Minimization National Plan?
- What is RCRA?
- What is Environmental Justice?
- What is the Love Canal Story?
- What is the Superfund? How many superfund sites do we have in Indiana?
- What are some of the environmental and health effects of the Chernobyl accident?
