Vocabulary Game Cards
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1. EPA (What do these letters stand for and the basic definition) |
2. MSW (What do these letters stand for and the basic definition) |
3. Products that make up Municipal Solid Waste |
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1. Environmental Protection Agency – an agency that helps control and regulate the safety of the environment. |
2. Municipal Solid Waste |
3. Everyday items such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, papers, appliances, paint, and batteries. |
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4. Non-Biodegradable |
5. Biodegradable |
6. Recycling |
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4. A material that will never break down such as plastics. |
5. A material that will eventually break down and go back into the soil. |
6. Diverts items such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals, from the waste stream. Materials are sorted, collected, and processed and then manufactured, sold, and bought as new products. |
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7. Combustion |
8. Landfills |
9. Composting |
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7. The process of burning MSW at a high temperature, reducing waste and volume and generating electricity. |
8. Specially designed facility for the burial of municipal solid waste. They are designed in such a way as to stop lactates from leaking through the soil into the water table. |
9. Decomposes organic waste, such as food scraps and yard trimmings, with microorganisms (mainly bacteria and fungi), producing a humus-like substance |
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10. Source reduction |
11. Non-durable Consumer Goods |
12. Durable Consumer Goods |
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10. Altering the design, manufacture, or use of products and materials to reduce the amount and toxicity of what gets thrown away |
11. Goods that are not meant to last a long time, such as; newspapers, magazines, paper plates, clothing, etc |
12. Goods that are meant to last a long time, often bulky oversized-items which include; washing machines, furniture, tires, etc |