Solid Waste Management Exam Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) When did solid waste become an issue? - Correct Answers
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Why was solid waste an issue in 10,000 BC? - Correct Answers ✅People gave up their nomadic lifestyle and began to live in communities How did people live when they lived they started to live in communities? - Correct Answers ✅In squalor The cities in the island of Crete had trunk sewers - Correct Answers ✅2100 BC archeologist found that Jerusalem had swears and a primitive water supply - Correct Answers ✅800 BC Athens passed a law requiring that all waste be deposited > 1 mile outside of the city walls because potential invaders could use the trash as a means to scale the walls and invade.
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Why did Athens pass a law in about where to throw away trash in 500 BC? - Correct Answers ✅invaders would use trash to climb the walls 1 / 2
Solid Waste Management Exam Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Some of the cities in China had "sanitary police" - Correct Answers ✅200 BC Rome had to pass a similar law as Athens and began a program where waste was collected - Correct Answers ✅14 AD When was the bubonic plague begin/ end ("black death") - Correct Answers ✅1300 AD - 13th century What was the bubonic plague? - Correct Answers ✅The plague was a bacterial infection circulated by fleas on rats and other small rodents that feed on waste How many people were killed by the bubonic plague - Correct Answers ✅25 million (30-60% of the European population) What did Britain do after the Black Plague? - Correct Answers ✅they hired their first official garbage men called "rakers" What was the role of "rakers" - Correct Answers ✅their job was to rake up trash into a cart and hall I tout of the cities
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