Unit 10: Waste

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Across
  1. 4. Preventing waste before it is created
  2. 5. Legal limits on pollutants released into the environment
  3. 6. Careful use and protection of natural resources
  4. 7. Processing materials to make new products
  5. 8. A designated site for waste disposal where trash is buried
  6. 9. Technology designed to reduce environmental impact
  7. 12. Using items again without significant processing
  8. 14. Laws or regulations created to manage human environmental impacts
  9. 15. Law protecting threatened and endangered species
  10. 17. Able to be broken down naturally by microorganisms
  11. 18. Burning waste to reduce volume and sometimes produce energy
  12. 19. United States law regulating air emissions
  13. 20. Turning waste materials into higher value products
Down
  1. 1. Evaluating environmental impacts of a product from creation to disposal
  2. 2. Moral principles guiding human interactions with the environment
  3. 3. Using resources in ways that meet current needs without harming future generations
  4. 10. Comparing economic costs with environmental and social benefits
  5. 11. The collection processing and disposal or reuse of waste materials
  6. 13. Decomposition of organic waste into nutrient rich soil
  7. 16. United States law regulating water pollution