Solid Waste Management EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) Basic ingredients of solid waste management - Correct Answers ✅Environmental protection Resource Conservation Convenience Economics Primitive Means of Disposal - Correct Answers ✅Garbage dumps/natural canyons Ocean/lakes/rivers bury burn feed to animals First residential MSW collection service - Correct Answers ✅London - 1875
NYC - 1895
Led the "Great Sanitary Awakening" - Correct Answers ✅Edwin Chadwick, 1842 When was RCRA passed? - Correct Answers ✅1976 1 / 3
Solid Waste Management EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) Federal Law vs Regulations - Correct Answers ✅Congress passes laws that establish policies The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promulgates regulations to carry out and administer these laws Regulation = attempt to enforce law Common law - Correct Answers ✅If a person is wronged, the perpetrator is convicted and sentenced on the basis of precedence Legislated law - Correct Answers ✅Establishes new common law by setting artificial and immediate precedents Rivers and Harbors Act - Correct Answers ✅Prohibited the dumping of large objects into navigable water ways Solid Waste Disposal Act - Correct Answers ✅Provided technical assistance to the states through the U.S. Public Health Service National Environmental Policy Act (1970) - Correct Answers ✅Created EPA 2 / 3
Solid Waste Management EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) Requires federal agencies to write environmental impact statements Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Correct Answers ✅Specified guidelines for hazardous and nonhazardous waste disposal Superfund Act (1980) - Correct Answers ✅Created a financial means of cleaning up old hazardous waste sites Clean Air Act (1970) - Correct Answers ✅Closed burning dumps and uncontrolled incinerators Consumer good hierarchy? - Correct Answers ✅Highly
durable goods: designed to never be thrown out
Durable goods: designed to be reused
Soft goods/consumables: by design they wear out
Single-use items
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