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