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What is e-waste?
Electronic waste, such as televisions, computers, cell phones, and iPods.
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E-waste is the ________ category of waste.
fastest growing
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What percent of e-waste is recycleable?
80%.
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How can e-waste be dangerous?
Electronics cotain toxic materials.
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Of all the e-waste, how much does the U.S. produce and recycle?
The U.S. produces half of the e-waste, and only recycles 15% of it.
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What does " cradle-to-grave" mean?
The company that created an electronic product will sponsor a recycling program for it.
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What is the only long-term solution for the growing problem of e-waste?
Prevention, by desigining electronics to be easy to recycle, and to be free of toxic chemicals.
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Where does industrial solid waste come from?
It comes from mining, agriculture, and industrial operations.
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Where does municipal sold waste (MSW) come from?
From homes and businesses.
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What percent of hazardous/toxic waste do developed countries produce?
80-90%
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At only 4.6% of the world population, the U.S produces about ____ of the solid waste in the world
One third.
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What percent comes from industrial waste?
98.5%.
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What percent comes from MSW?
1.5%.
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What are three way of producing less waste?
Refusing, reducing, and reusing.
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What is primary recycling also known as? What is it?
Closed-loop recycling. Materials are recycled into new products of the same kind.
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What is secondary recycling?
Waste materials are converted into different products.
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What is preconsumer, or internal, waste?
Waste produced in the manufacturing process.
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What is postconsumer (external) recycling?
Waste created by consumer use of products.
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How much of it's MSW does the U.S. recycle? How much could it recycle?
The U.S. recycles on 25% of it's MSW, but can recycle up to 75% of it.
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What are most plastics made of?
Petrochemicals.
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What are bioplastics made of?
Plant materials.
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How can we encourage reuse and recycling?
- By having market prices reflect true costs
- Balancing economies that give more tax breaks and subsidies to resource-extracting industries than recycling industries
- Stabilizing prices for recycled materials
- Having a fee-perbag waste collection system
- Having a better informed public
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What percent of surface impoundments that store hazardous wastes have no liners?
70%
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What percent of surface impoundments may threaten groundwater?
90%.
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What percent of hazardous waste is regulated?
Only 5%.
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What does Superfund do?
It cleans hazardous waste sites, but is now broke.
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What is the government doing with toxi areas know as brownfields?
Turning them into parks and nature reserves.
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