1. Solid & Hazardous Wastes

2. Sustainable Resource Use?
Overarching principles of a
low-throughput economy and society?
Please describe three:

3. Industrial Ecology Principles on “cleaner production”
“Waste” redefined
“Waste unplugged”
“Waste plugged back in”

4. Material Flow Economies
Contrasted with
Service Flow Economies

5. Cradle ?
Cradle to Grave:
Cradle to Cradle

7. Solid Waste Sources 1. Mining 2. Ag. 3. Manufacturing
4. MSW & Sewage Sludge/Biosolids

8. The fate of “Trash” (U.S.)
About half of it  Landfilled (perhaps with a small but growing portion of that going to landfillharmonic applications and the like)
~ 30% is recycled
~16% is incinerated

9. Fundamental Features of a

10. Sanitary Landfills
Site Considerations:
-Describe four-

11. Landfill Site Selection
Location ? Please elaborate, - perhaps stating the obvious
Water table: what this refers to and why it might be of interest here
Often related to WT  Precipitation  Leachate formation and MOVEMENT  (Leaking Liners …?)  Groundwater Contamination ??

12. … The Daily Cover …

13. Just Add Water ….. Why?

14. What’s Up with the Bird?

16. Waste = Food ? For many Feathered Friends …

18. Puente Hills Landfill

19. Primary & Secondary Recycling
Primary: Closed Loop
Secondary: Open Loop

20. Pre- vs. Post- Consumer Waste: ? Why does it matter ?

21. Potential Obstacles to Recycling
Describe twelve: (Three would be fine here)

22. Market-price for Recycled Materials
NIMBY mind-set
Costs to Operate: Facilities, vehicles/transportation networks, fuel/energy to convert, Scale ?
others ………..

23. Materials Recovery Facilities
Advantages & Potential Disadvantages

24. Waste-to-Energy Plants: PROs / CONs

25. “Hazardous” legally defined:
carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, easily flammable, explosive, volatile, corrosive

26. Managing Hazardous Wastes
Describe three accepted methods:

27. Surface Impoundments: “Pool”
Deep Well Injection: “TerraSyringe”
Above Ground , or In-ground storage repositories: “Vault”

28. Remediation
Bioremediation:
Phytoremediation:

29. Bioremediation Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans:
genetically engineered to absorb
Toluene and elemental Mercury
Fungi (Mycoremediation):
Oyster Fungi absorbs PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), such as benzo alpha pyrene (the “first carcinogen”, chimney sweeps carcinoma, 1700s)

30. Phytoremediation
Phytostabilization:
Phytodegradation:
Phytoextraction:

31. Potential Haz. Mat(s). Examples
Please be familiar with a brief description & major source of each:
Pb, Dioxins, Chlorine, Methane, PCBs,
MTBE, Leachate, Plastics (incl. nurdles),
Hydrogen Sulfide, DDT, …

32. Brownfields:
Please share a brief description and one example

33. Law & Order Prominent legislation: -RCRA: provisons C-2-G -CERCLA:
Superfund

34. RCRA stands for:

37. Superfund: CERCLA highlight please note the “d” in Superfund
Abandoned, hazardous waste sites
To be based on a Polluter-Pays Principle,
… but,

38. Superfund Sites
are much higher risk and much more extensively impacted sites than Brownfields

39. Pay-As-You-Throw: Potential Challenges ?

40. Majora Carter: Environmental & Social Justice Leader
South Bronx
vs.
Manhattan:
where are the
historically polluting
Industries?

41. Lois Gibbs and Love Canal

42. Van Jones: The Green Collar Economy
Jobs, Justice, Policy, Environmental Integrity, sustainability

43. Anne Anderson & Woburn, MA.
The story, the book,
the movie,

44. HAAs
Hormonally Active Agents:
cause developmental / reproductive abnormalities
Ex: Atrazine, PCBs, Phthalates,
Bisphenol A(BPA), DDT

45. Brief Summary of Ch. 15 Toxicology Concepts
1. LD 50
2. Chronic & Acute
3. Teratogens
4. Variables influencing Substance Impact(s)
5. Ecological Gradient
6. Case Studies

46. UGA w/
the PPTing
For Now