Q.1
Residue collected at the bottom of the combustion chamber in a furnace.
  • Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
  • Waste Stream
  • Bottom Ash
  • Leachate
Q.2
A systems of tool that looks at the materials used and released throughout the lifetime of a product—from the procurement of raw materials through their manufacture, use, and disposal. Also known as cradle-to-grave analysis.
  • Waste
  • Open-Loop Recycling
  • Life-Cycle Analysis
  • Closed-Loop Recycling
Q.3
Refuse collected by municipalities from households, small businesses, and institutions.
  • Waste Stream
  • Leachate
  • Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
  • Integrated Waste Management
Q.4
Using a product or material that was intended to be discarded.
  • Reconfigure
  • Recycle
  • Reduce
  • Reuse
Q.5
The movement of trash cans to the truck done by a collection crew
  • backyard collection
  • curbside collection
  • backside collection
  • curbyard collection
Q.6
Suppose a crew of two people requires 2 minutes per stop, at which they can servicefour customers. If each customer generateslb of refuse per week, how many customerscan they service if they did not have to go to the landfill, knowing that the crew has 6 productive hrs in a day?
  • 180
  • 360
  • 720
  • 1440
Q.7
When the waste disposal unit is far from the collection area, this is used.
  • dumpster
  • transfer station
  • routing
  • allocation model
Q.8
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of incinerating waste?
  • It reduces the material sent to landfills
  • It produces energy in the form of heat
  • It can be used to produce electricity
  • It neutralizes all of the toxic materials
Q.9
___________ is any waste that is a risk to the health of humans or other living things.
  • hazardous waste
  • politics
  • sewage
  • water runoff
Q.10
The sum total of all the waste produced by individuals, industries, mining, and agriculture is referred to as _______________.
  • trash
  • the waste stream
  • municipal solid waste
  • IATF
Q.11
Which one of the following is NOT a method for handling non-biodegradable solid waste?
  • burning
  • burying
  • recycling
  • composting
Q.12
Integrated waste management arranges all of the strategies of dealing with municipal solid waste in order, from top-to-bottom, with the goal of minimizing what ends up in a landfill. The first step in waste management is _____________.
  • incineration
  • reuse
  • recycling
  • reduction
Q.13
Rainwater falling on a dump dissolves chemicals from the wastes, forming a liquid called _________________ that could pollute rivers, streams, and groundwater.
  • liquid waste
  • trash effluent
  • leachate
  • runoff
Q.14
Manufacturers could reduce waste and conserve resources by making products that
  • use more materials
  • are more durable
  • are difficult
  • are disposable
Q.15
Which of the following disease is caused by waste material thrown in open areas ?
  • Cholera
  • Plague
  • Typhoid
  • All the above
Q.16
Which one is not a benefit of recycling ?
  • It reduces pollution .
  • It conserves natural resources.
  • It saves energy.
  • It may cause diseases.
Q.17
Fromto the present, the percentage of waste that is recycled has
  • increased from 6.6% to 28%
  • decreased from 28% to 6.6%
  • decreased from 28% to 19.6%
  • remained the same
Q.18
Makes up most of the municipal solid waste
  • paper
  • plastic
  • manufacturing waste
  • leachate
Q.19
Garbage produced by households and businesses
  • hazardous waste
  • school lunch
  • municipal solid waste
  • city water
Q.20
Cannot be broken down by biological processes
  • plant waste
  • paper
  • plastic
  • yard waste
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