chap 15: environmental concerns: wastes and pollution instructors name semester, 200_
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Chap 15: Environmental Concerns: Wastes and Pollution
Instructors name
Semester, 200_
Chap 15: Wastes and Pollution
Chapter Objectives• Define the terms environment,
ecology, and biosphere.
• Explain how human activities affect the environment through the production of wastes and residues.
• Name the primary sources of solid wastes.
• List and briefly explain the four approaches to solid waste management.
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Chapter Objectives• Define hazardous wastes.
• Explain the difference between sanitary and secured landfills.
• Identify the five approaches to hazardous waste management.
• Explain what is meant by the term Superfund.
• Explain the Pollution Standard Index (PSI).
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Chapter Objectives• Briefly describe acid rain, ozone
layer, global warming, and photochemical smog.
• Identify the major indoor air pollutants.
• Explain the difference in point source and nonpoint source pollution.
• Identify the categories of water pollution.
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Chapter Objectives• Briefly describe waste water
treatment.
• List means of conserving water.
• Name the primary sources of radiation.
• Explain how nuclear wastes are handled in the United States.
• Identify the two basic characteristics of sound.
• Identify steps to reduce problems associated with noise pollution.
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Introduction to Environment• External conditions, circumstances,
and influences surrounding and affecting the growth and development of an organism or a community of organisms.
• Ecology
• Biosphere
Chap 15: Wastes and PollutionNatural Environmental Hazards• Natural hazards
• Biology hazards
– Insect– Microbiological– Vegetation
• Psychological hazards
– Stress– Boredom– Anxiety
• Sociological hazards
– Overcrowding– Isolation– Anomie
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Residues & Wastes from Humans• Factors contributing
– urbanization– industrialization– human population growth– production and use of disposable products
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Types of Wastes and Pollution• Solid wastes
• Hazardous Waste
• Water and its pollution
• Radiation
• Noise pollution
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Solid Waste• Sources of solid waste
– agriculture– mining– industry– municipalities– utilities
• Decomposing waste
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Sources of Waste
utilitiesindustry
household
mining
agriculture
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Solid Waste• Solid wastes management
– collection – disposal
• sanitary landfills• incineration• recycling• source reduction
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Hazardous WasteA product that may
1.cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serous irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness, or
2. Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
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Hazardous Waste• Management
– Secured landfill - least expensive– Deep well injection– Incineration of Hazardous waste– Hazardous Waste Recycling and
Neutralization– Source Reduction
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Hazardous Waste• Cleanup
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
• Superfund
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Air Pollution• Contaminants of
Outdoor Air– transportation– electric power
plants– industry - mills &
refineries
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards
• Pollutant Standard Index
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Special Concerns with Outdoor Air• Acid Rain
• Destruction of the Ozone Layer– chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
• Global Warming– greenhouse gases– greenhouse effect
• Photochemical Smog– thermal inversion
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Indoor Air• Indoor Air Pollutants
– asbestos– formaldehyde– radon– environmental tobacco smoke– volatile organic compounds
• Air Quality and Conservation– sick building syndrome– ventilation– testing
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Water Pollution• Sources of water
• Treatment of water for use– coagulation and flocculation– sedimentation– filtration– disinfection
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Sources of Water Pollution• Point source
pollution - single identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the water.
• nonpoint source pollution - all pollution that occurs through the runoff, seepage, of falling of pollutants into the water.
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Types of Water Pollutants• Biological pollutants
– pathogens– overgrowth of aquatic plants
• Toxic pollutants– inorganic chemicals– radioactive materials– synthetic organic chemicals
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Water Quality• Strategies to
ensure safe water– policy– water treatment– municipal waste
water treatment– primary treatment– secondary
treatment– tertiary treatment– septic systems– conservation
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RadiationSources• Naturally
– Cosmic radiation - sun & outer space– Terrestrial radiation - Earth & its minerals– Internal radiation - inside the body from
ingestion
• Human-made – X-rays– Nuclear medicine– Nuclear weapons
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Sources of Radiation
Radon54%
Consumer products
3%
Others1%
Nuclear medicine
4%
Medical X-rays11%
Internal11%
Terrestrial8%
Cosmic8%
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RadiationDanger
– Roentgen equivalent man - REMS– damage cells & tissues
Policy– USDE– Nuclear waste disposal is highly
controversial
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Noise Pollution
Measure by annoyance factor• Frequency
– cycles per second– hertz– vibrations per second
• Amplitude– decibels (dB)
• Noise abatement– Policy - Noise Control Act of 1972– Education programs– Environmental changes
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