Across
- 3. recycling one product into a different product: plastic bottle-> fleece jacket
- 6. trash collected from households, small businesses and institutions
- 9. the process of designing products that will need to be replaced within a few years
- 13. aka the Superfund Act. Established to clean up hazardous waste sites
- 15. an approach to waste management that seeks to cut waste through changes in the design and manufacturing of the product
- 17. waste that is harmful to humans, ecosystems or materials
- 19. substances that do not allow water to pass through them freely (ex: clay)
- 21. gas that is released naturally via decomposition/collection of this gas needs to be addressed when creating a landfill (can be used to produce energy)
- 23. the best option of the three Rs
Down
- 1. letting organic material decompose under controlled conditions to produce an organic-rich material which can be used as fertilizer
- 2. the process of burning waste materials to reduce mass and possibly produce electricity/heat
- 4. the worst option of the three Rs
- 5. the flow of solid waste that is recycled, incinerated, put in a landfill or disposed of another way
- 7. material outputs from a system that are not useful or consumed
- 8. liquid that contains elevated levels of pollutants as a result of having passed through MSW or contaminated soil
- 10. residual nonorganic material that does not combust during incineration (can be dangerous)
- 11. electronic waste
- 12. legislation that tracks hazardous waste from the creation to its disposal
- 14. harm, illness or death caused by chemical means through ingestion, inhalation or absorption
- 16. what we line sanitary landfills with to keep leachate away from groundwater
- 18. using a product that was intended to be discarded
- 20. contaminated industrial/commercial sites that may require cleanup before they can be reused
- 22. recycling a product into the same product aluminum can -> aluminum can