Chapter 16:
What are the major components of municipal solid waste?
What are the environmental and societal consequences of our resource use?
How do we move to a zero waste society?
What are the consequences of producing hazardous waste?
What are the regulations and legislation regarding hazardous waste?
Chapter 17
What are the major risks to human health in poor countries? in wealthy countries?
What are the historically important human diseases?
What are the emerging infectious diseases?
What are the major types of harmful chemicals and their effects on human health?
How do we determine the concentrations of chemicals that harm organisms?
How do we assess risk?
Media
Fighting environmental just in NC
Colin Beaven "No Impact Man" interview
More "Story about stuff" videos including ones about bottled water, microfibers, cosmetics, electronics, solutions and more
Chris Jordan:
TEDx 2012 video (total time 19:45)
TED 2008 (total time 11:10)
Running the Numbers (website of Chris Jordan's artwork)
If we get a chance to Skype with Chris Jordan this year,
please prepare by watching one or more of the above videos
Assignments
Are you serious?
Garbage audit
Vocabulary (chapter 16)
The waste stream
Extraction - disposal, Throw-way society, Planned and Perceived obsolescence, closed and open loop recycling, reduce/reuse/recycling/compost
MSW - Municipal Solid waste
% composition of most abundant kinds, recycling trends, landfills incineration
Hazardous waste,
Sources/examples, brownfields, love canal,
Laws
RCRA
CERCLA (superfund, npl)
systemic changes
Life cycle analysis, zero waste, cradle to grave, waste/source reduction, integrated waste management
Vocabulary (chapter 17)
Types of risk
physical (natural disasters, accidents)
Biological (plague, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, mad cow, bird flue, west nile
Toxic chemicals (neurotoxins, allergens, carcinogens, teratogens, endocrine disruptors)
Factors that contribute to toxic effects
exposure, solubility, bioaccumulation, biomagnification, persistence
How do we study risk?
Dose response studies (LD-50, ED-50, TP-50, acute and chronic studies)
Retrospective studies
Prospective Studies
Laws
Stockholm Convention
REACH
Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976
Managing risk
Quantitative risk analysis
perceived risk
actual risk
risk acceptance
risk management
Precautionary Principal
Innocent until proven guilty
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