Solid Waste Management EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Basic ingredients of solid waste management - Correct
Answers ✅Environmental protection
Resource Conservation
Convenience
Economics
Primitive Means of Disposal - Correct Answers ✅Garbage
dumps/natural canyons
Ocean/lakes/rivers
bury
burn
feed to animals
First residential MSW collection service - Correct Answers
✅London - 1875
NYC - 1895
Led the "Great Sanitary Awakening" - Correct Answers
✅Edwin Chadwick, 1842
When was RCRA passed? - Correct Answers ✅1976
,Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Federal Law vs Regulations - Correct Answers ✅Congress
passes laws that establish policies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
promulgates regulations to carry out and administer
these laws
Regulation = attempt to enforce law
Common law - Correct Answers ✅If a person is wronged,
the perpetrator is convicted and sentenced on the basis of
precedence
Legislated law - Correct Answers ✅Establishes new
common law by setting artificial and immediate precedents
Rivers and Harbors Act - Correct Answers ✅Prohibited the
dumping of large objects into navigable water ways
Solid Waste Disposal Act - Correct Answers ✅Provided
technical assistance to the states through the U.S. Public
Health Service
National Environmental Policy Act (1970) - Correct Answers
✅Created EPA
, Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Requires federal agencies to write environmental impact
statements
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Correct Answers
✅Specified guidelines for hazardous and nonhazardous
waste disposal
Superfund Act (1980) - Correct Answers ✅Created a
financial means of cleaning up old hazardous waste sites
Clean Air Act (1970) - Correct Answers ✅Closed burning
dumps and uncontrolled incinerators
Consumer good hierarchy? - Correct Answers ✅Highly
durable goods: designed to never be thrown out
Durable goods: designed to be reused
Soft goods/consumables: by design they wear out
Single-use items
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Basic ingredients of solid waste management - Correct
Answers ✅Environmental protection
Resource Conservation
Convenience
Economics
Primitive Means of Disposal - Correct Answers ✅Garbage
dumps/natural canyons
Ocean/lakes/rivers
bury
burn
feed to animals
First residential MSW collection service - Correct Answers
✅London - 1875
NYC - 1895
Led the "Great Sanitary Awakening" - Correct Answers
✅Edwin Chadwick, 1842
When was RCRA passed? - Correct Answers ✅1976
,Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Federal Law vs Regulations - Correct Answers ✅Congress
passes laws that establish policies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
promulgates regulations to carry out and administer
these laws
Regulation = attempt to enforce law
Common law - Correct Answers ✅If a person is wronged,
the perpetrator is convicted and sentenced on the basis of
precedence
Legislated law - Correct Answers ✅Establishes new
common law by setting artificial and immediate precedents
Rivers and Harbors Act - Correct Answers ✅Prohibited the
dumping of large objects into navigable water ways
Solid Waste Disposal Act - Correct Answers ✅Provided
technical assistance to the states through the U.S. Public
Health Service
National Environmental Policy Act (1970) - Correct Answers
✅Created EPA
, Solid Waste Management EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)
Requires federal agencies to write environmental impact
statements
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Correct Answers
✅Specified guidelines for hazardous and nonhazardous
waste disposal
Superfund Act (1980) - Correct Answers ✅Created a
financial means of cleaning up old hazardous waste sites
Clean Air Act (1970) - Correct Answers ✅Closed burning
dumps and uncontrolled incinerators
Consumer good hierarchy? - Correct Answers ✅Highly
durable goods: designed to never be thrown out
Durable goods: designed to be reused
Soft goods/consumables: by design they wear out
Single-use items
