Solid Waste Management EXAM
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What is solid waste? - Correct Answers ✅all wastes from
human and animal activities that are normally solid or semi-
solid and are discarded (includes municipal, industrial, and
hazardous wastes)
What is solid waste management? - Correct Answers ✅-
activities involved with the reduction of generation,
collection, storage, transport, processing, and disposal of
solid wastes
- solid waste management concerns public health,
economics, engineering, conservation, esthetics, and other
environmental considerations
Garbage - Correct Answers ✅___________ is the animal and
vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, and serving food.
Does not include: processing wastes from canneries,
slaughterhouses, packing plants, and similar facilities.
Rubbish - Correct Answers ✅Combustible: paper, cartons,
boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard
trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, dunnage
Transfer Station - Correct Answers ✅MSW is transferred
from several collection vehicles to a larger vehicle at a
, Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
transfer station where MSW is carried to an ultimate disposal
site.The larger vehicle may be a tractor-trailer, railroad car, or
barge.
*A place where trucks dump their loads into a larger vehicle
where it is compacted. By combining loads, the most per Mg
* km for transport to the landfill is reduced.
EPA - Correct Answers ✅Environmental Protection Agency
SOURCE REDUCTION - Correct Answers ✅reduction in both
the quantities of waste generation
and the toxic constituents in the products
RECYCLING - Correct Answers ✅use or reuse of an
effective substitute for a commercial product or as an
ingredient or feedstock in an industrial process
TREATMENT - Correct Answers ✅process which changes
the physical, chemical and biological character of any waste
so as to recover energy or material resources
DISPOSAL - Correct Answers ✅discharge, deposit, dumping
and placing of waste on any land or water
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
What is solid waste? - Correct Answers ✅all wastes from
human and animal activities that are normally solid or semi-
solid and are discarded (includes municipal, industrial, and
hazardous wastes)
What is solid waste management? - Correct Answers ✅-
activities involved with the reduction of generation,
collection, storage, transport, processing, and disposal of
solid wastes
- solid waste management concerns public health,
economics, engineering, conservation, esthetics, and other
environmental considerations
Garbage - Correct Answers ✅___________ is the animal and
vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, and serving food.
Does not include: processing wastes from canneries,
slaughterhouses, packing plants, and similar facilities.
Rubbish - Correct Answers ✅Combustible: paper, cartons,
boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard
trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, dunnage
Transfer Station - Correct Answers ✅MSW is transferred
from several collection vehicles to a larger vehicle at a
, Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
transfer station where MSW is carried to an ultimate disposal
site.The larger vehicle may be a tractor-trailer, railroad car, or
barge.
*A place where trucks dump their loads into a larger vehicle
where it is compacted. By combining loads, the most per Mg
* km for transport to the landfill is reduced.
EPA - Correct Answers ✅Environmental Protection Agency
SOURCE REDUCTION - Correct Answers ✅reduction in both
the quantities of waste generation
and the toxic constituents in the products
RECYCLING - Correct Answers ✅use or reuse of an
effective substitute for a commercial product or as an
ingredient or feedstock in an industrial process
TREATMENT - Correct Answers ✅process which changes
the physical, chemical and biological character of any waste
so as to recover energy or material resources
DISPOSAL - Correct Answers ✅discharge, deposit, dumping
and placing of waste on any land or water
