Study guide for tomorrow’s test
Short answer questions
What are sanitary landfills and why are they so important? (In other words, why do we have sanitary landfills instead of just plain dumps?)
List two problems or potential problems with sanitary landfills. ( If you can think of three list all three)
What is leachate, how is it formed and what happens to it in a sanitary landfill?
Identify and describe one example of waste to energy
Vocabulary
Waste
Industrial waste
Municipal waste
Hazardous waste
Groundwater monitoring
Liner
Water table
Aquifer
Leachate
Methane
Co2
Raw Materials
Synthetic
Sanitary landfill
Dump
Contaminate
Decomposition
Organic Matter
Impermeable
Permeable
Incineration
Waste to Energy
Input
Outputs
Boundaries
NIMBY
Perforated Pipes
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