- The largest landfill in the world closed in 2001 and it is planned to get transformed into a world-class public park
- Love Canal sparked the creation of the Superfund Law which forced polluters to pay for cleaning up abandoned toxic waste dumps
- President carter declared the love canal a natural disaster
- Between 1842-1953,Hooker chemical sealed wastes into steel drums and dumped into an old canal. In 1953, the canal was sold to Niagra falls school board for 1$
- Love Canal sparked the creation of the Superfund Law which forced polluters to pay for cleaning up abandoned toxic waste dumps
- Waste: any discarded material for which no further sale or use is intended
- Industrial solid waste: created indirectly by people who supply goods and services
- Solid Waste Exclusions: Solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or irrigation return flows.
- Industrial discharges subject to CWA regulations including POTW
- Waste streams- flow of wastes as it moves towards disposal destination
- Recycling- sends used goods to manufacture new goods
- Of the 251 million tons of waste, 81.8 million tons were recycled or composted by the U.S in 2006
- The U.S produces almost half of the world’s waste, but only recycles about 10% of it
- U.S. sells trash to china to recycle, economy has down valued recycling
- Open dumps: fields/holes in the ground where trash is dumped then covered with soil
- Sanitary landfills: Solid wastes spread out in thin layers& compacted and covered daily by fresh layers of clay or plastic foam. Must meet standard set by EPA, if landfill is closed, must be capped and maintained
- Main waste contaminants are underlying soil& depth to groundwater, landfill liner, Leachate collection system, cover soil and final landfill cap
- Clean Water Act for municipal solid waste landfills that are used to dispose of sewage sludge.
- We have landfills to protect groundwater, surface water, air quality and control pathogenic migration
- Monitoring: Gas collection wells to remove methane& groundwater monitoring wells
- MSW is burned in over 1000 large waste to energy incinerators, which boil water to make steam for heating water, or space or for production of electricity
- Bacteria can decompose waste in oxygen deficient environment
- Superfund harmful sites are placed on EPAs national priority list, ranked according to level of risk to human health
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Unit #3
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- Unit #3 Study Guide
- Chapter #5 Guided Reading
- Borneo Reflection
- Natural Selection
- Keystone Species
- Ecosystem Services Infogram
- Biology Essentials- Exponential Growth
- Biology Essentials- Logistic Growth
- Galapagos Island Case Study
- Chapter #8 Guided Reading
- APES: Something’s Fishy – Population Study Lab
- Biodiversity Hotspot
- How Big is My Population?
- APES-Comparing Biodiversity: Spiders, Spiders Everywhere!-
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Endangered Species Newsletter
- Wanted poster
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Unit #4
- Threats to Biodiversity: An Overview Guided Viewing
- APES in a box: Endangered Species
- Fish Harvesting Techniques
- Which Species Will Live?
- On the Terminatation of Species
- Can Sustainable Management Help Save Tropical Forests?
- Bushmeat Assignment
- Saving the Honeybee
- Conservation for the People
- Rangelands, Grasslands, and Parks
- Mapping the National Parks
- Corridors Case Study
- Endangered Species Graphic Organizer
- Invasive Species Graphic Organizer
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Unit #6
- Human Population Growth and Carrying Capacity
- Chapter Four Guided Viewing
- Human Population Guided Viewing
- Four Stages of Demographic Changes
- Chapter 27 Guided Viewing
- Population, Poverty and the Local Environment Article
- Economics in a Full World Article
- Urban Heat Island Effect Guided Viewing
- Urban Heat Islands Activity
- How Green is My City Article
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Unit #7
- Kermit or Kermette? Case Study
- Ch. 10 Guided Reading
- Lung Toxicology Problem Set
- Toxicology Problem Set
- Home toxins audit
- Toxics in your neighborhood
- The story of cosmetics/electronics
- Biomagnification activity
- Tuna for lunch case study
- Everyday exposure to toxic pollutants
- Radioactive smoke article review
- Risk Survey
- Lead Shot Toxicity
- Solid & Hazardous Waste
- Arsenic in Drinking Water
- Omnivores Dilemma Ch. #2
- Ch. 23 Guided Reading
- Fast food project
- Excessive packaging article
- Recycle city
- Landfill-Notes
- Addicted to Plastic Newsletter
- LD-50 Lab Report
- Rescue Worker's Dilemma
- Radon Guided Viewing
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Unit #8
- Fracking Article
- Ch. 19 Guided Reading
- Gasland
- Water Contamination #1
- Water Contamination #2
- Water Contamination #3
- Wading in Waste article
- Water Pollution Notes
- Bioremediation Assignment
- Mountain top Removal webquest
- WQI Testing
- Article clean energy from filthy water
- Home water audit
- Ch. 18 guided viewing
- Water division webquest
- Blue gold reflection
- NG water footprint calculator
- Go down the dams
- facing the freshwater crisis
- Wading in the waste article
- Poison in the rockies summary
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Unit #10
- Ch. 11 Guided Viewing
- Phosphorus- A Looming Crisis
- APES in a box: soil profile
- Dirt summary
- APES in a box: Soil Pyramid
- Food Inc. summary
- Omnivores dilemma ch. #4
- Harvest of fear guided reading
- Persuasive essay
- Guess whos coming to dinner? notes
- Should we grow GM crops? arguments
- Engineer a crop
- Integrated pest management & biological pest control
- Michael Pollan notes
- CAFO case study questions
- Could food shortages bring down civilization? article
- Soil Lab
- Unit #9
- Unit #11
- Unit #12
- ScrAPES