Across
- 3. Managing wastes to limit their environmental harm without trying to reduce the amount of waste produced
- 7. Use of bacteria and enzymes to help destroy toxic or hazardous substances or convert them into harmless compounds
- 8. Process in which waste materials are converted into different products
- 9. Use of natural or genetically engineered plants as “pollution sponges” to absorb, filter, and remove contaminants from polluted soil and water
- 11. Decomposition of biodegradable organic wastes into an organic component of soil that improves soil fertility
- 13. Waste disposal site where waste is spread in thin layers, compacted, and covered with a layer of clay or plastic foam daily
- 14. Using materials again for the same purpose
- 15. Variety of coordinated strategies for both waste reduction and waste management designed to deal with the solid wastes humans produce
- 16. Solid waste produced by mines, farms, and industries that supply people with goods and services
Down
- 1. Combined soil wastes produced by households and workplaces other than factories
- 2. Any discarded material or substance that threatens human health or the environment
- 4. Reducing the amount of waste produces; wastes that are produced are viewed as potential resources that can be reused, recycled, or composted
- 5. Making industrial processes cleaner and more sustainable by redesigning them to mimic the way nature deals with wastes
- 6. Pumping of liquid hazardous wastes under high pressure through a pipe into dry, porous rock formations far beneath aquifers that are tapped for drinking and irrigation water
- 10. Any unwanted or discarded material people produce that is not a liquid or a gas
- 12. Storage for liquid hazardous wastes in ponds, pits, or lagoons