| Term | Definition |
|---|
| durable goods | are products that have a lifetime of 3 years or longer before being discarded |
| non-durable goods | are products that last for less than 3 years and may include 1 time use items |
| containers and packaging | products that last for varying amounts of time but usually short lived |
| durable goods (5 examples) | tv, fridge, car tire, scissors, microwave, |
| non-durable goods (5 examples) | paper plates, banana peels, sticky notes, wrappers, tissues |
| containers and packaging (5 examples) | styrafoam, bubble wrap, coke can, plastic containers, candles |
| composting | natures way of recycling food and plant waste |
| biodegradeble | the process of natural material breaking down and decaying organic matter |
| toxic | harmful |
| corrosive | wearing away by chemical action |
| leachate | dirty water that collects after rain runs through the landfill |
| cell | a hole dug in the ground where waste is burried to protect our water and sorrounding enviroment |
| 4 R's | recycle, reuse, rethink, reduce |
| recycle | taking somthing old and making it new |
| reuse | using objects over and over again |
| rethink | thinking twice before throwing away |
| reduce | throwing away less |
| liners | 5 feet of clay and plastic |
| monitering wells | moniters the ground water |
| leachate collection system | sucks up all the poisonus leachate at the bottom of the landfill which is transfered to a leachate cleaning system |
| methane gas | produced by bacteria break down waste and is released from top of landfill |
| sand | large and drains fastest |
| clay | small and drains very slow |
| silt | medium and drains slower than sand but faster than clay |
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