hazardous waste vocabulary
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- this country banned incinerators in 1985
- sweden
- highly toxic form of mercury
- methol
- these contain waste below a landfill
- liner
- state where first public school used methane from a landfill for heating
- missouri
- this country's paper has been Cl-free since the early 1990's
- germany
- using extreme temperatures to convert hazardous material into atoms and ions
- pyrolosis
- these impoundments store liquid hazardous waste
- surface
- these collect methane gas
- pipes
- barrels used to contain hazardous waste
- drums
- 4.6% of the world's population
- 33% of the world's waste
- 1.5%
- municipial waste
- 49% recycling rate in U.S. as compared with
- 43% world recycling waste
- polythylene terphthalate
- soda bottle plastic
- Superfund Act:
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1. identifies hazardous waste
2. protects/cleans nearby groundwater
3. cleaning up sites
4. when possible, requires guilty to clean