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Solid Waste Management Exam Questions
And Answers 100% Pass.
What is solid waste? - answer✔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? - answer✔- 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 - answer✔___________ 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 - answer✔Combustible: paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches,
yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, dunnage
Transfer Station - answer✔MSW is transferred from several collection vehicles to a larger
vehicle at a 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 - answer✔Environmental Protection Agency
SOURCE REDUCTION - answer✔reduction in both the quantities of waste generation