What law was passed to ensure safe land disposal of hazardous wastes? What are the main features of the legislation?
What will be an ideal response?
"The 1976 RCRA and its subsequent amendments are the cornerstone legislation designed to prevent unsafe or illegal disposal of all solid wastes on land. The RCRA has three main features. First, it requires that all disposal facilities, such as landfills, be sanctioned by permits. Second, the RCRA requires that toxic wastes destined for landfills be pretreated to convert them to forms that will not leach. For whatever is still going to disposal facilities, the third major feature of RCRA is to require ‘cradle-to-grave' tracking of all hazardous wastes."
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A) Precambrian B) Paleozoic C) Cenozoic D) Devonian E) Silurian
Which of the following is densest: a kilogram of feathers, a kilogram of bricks, or a kilogram of water?
A) A kilogram of feathers B) A kilogram of water C) A kilogram of bricks D) All three have the same density because they all have the same mass.
Which term denotes the true soil above the zone of partly weathered bedrock?
What will be an ideal response?
Where do the toxic gases and leachates come from that are the result of mining for gold?
A. Sulfur compounds in the ore B. Heavy metals used in the operation of mining for the gold C. Chlorine compounds in the ore D. Cyanide used in the operation of mining for the gold E. Carbon compounds in the ore