Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Exam 3) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What countries produce the most waste per capita? - Correct Answers ✅US, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Guyana, New Zealand What are the waste management styles used in developing countries - Correct Answers ✅Developing countries look similar to how the US looked in the 70s in terms of waste management. There is no formal management style. It is unorganized and includes rummaging from people and animals. Formal collection is uncommon in developing countries, and waste is usually dumped in various "central locations" around the city. Developing countries have poor waste management techniques.What are the waste management regulations in place in the U.S.? When were they passed? What's been there impact? - Correct Answers ✅the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, were not passed until 1976. Before this US waste management was not formal and was similar to what most developing countries still look like today. People would go to unofficial dump sites to watch bears. Unstructured, informal. The impact of regulations has helped clean up the environment, especially from toxic waste.Waste management is one of the youngest environmental engineering fields, and is less accepted than water or soil management. Waste management lags behind globally despite US efforts. 1 / 3
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Exam 3) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Why is per capita use technically lower than it has been historically? - Correct Answers ✅Past generations owned life stock, and live stock create a lot of waste for each individual.What are some issues associated with poor waste management tools? - Correct Answers ✅1) Leads to pests (insects and rodents) 2) can contaminate ground water 3) can lead to air pollution if burned/combusted 4) spread of debris throughout areas near dump site 5) lowers property value 6) promotes spread of disease, microorganisms, toxic waste around site The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 & subtitle D - Correct Answers ✅forbade open dumping and introduced the concept of the sanitary landfill.
Subtitle D: Land fill siting /environmental justice and "NIMBY"
How has USEPA tried to control for municipal solid waste (MSW) - Correct Answers ✅1) source reduction 2 / 3
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Exam 3) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) --> don't make waste in the first place. Composting of lawn trimmings or reuse of products. Packaging of products is a big topic of discussion in source reduction. So many things have a lot of use less packaging which creates more waste.2) recycle (compost) --> Consumerism is bad for MSW, everything is flashy but useless. We don't need it.3) burn it --> if done properly not a bad option. But to produce fewer biproducts has to be done at specific temperature, which can be more expensive. So, many places don't do it properly and create air pollution.
Thinking of the solid waste management hierarchy: What is
the most preferred to least preferred types of management styles? - Correct Answers ✅1) source reduction 2) reuse 3) recycling 4) resource recovery (waste to energy) 5) incineration 6) land filing What are some materials included in Municipal Solid Waste? - Correct Answers ✅paper, yard trimmings, food waste, glass, plastic, metal, wood waste, paperboard
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