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What is a place where rubbish is burnt?
When garbage is going to be burned it is brought to an incinerator. These incinerators reduce the mass of the original waste by 80% and the volume by 95%. Incineration is particularly helpful with hazardous and clinical waste whose toxins can be destroyed by the high temperature.
How many hospitals have incinerators on site in the uk?
Most of them ! They need to be able to incinerate hazardous waste - such as used bandages, gauze etc.
Incinerator should only receive a all metal waste b all infective waste c all plastic waste d none of the above?
d) none of the above....the whole point of incinerators is to dispose of most kinds of waste.
How could technology best be used to solve the problem of most of the health hazard being because of incinerators and regulated medical waste?
Find a way to incinerate waste without allowing lead to escape. apex
Is incinerators the most economical method of solid waste disposal?
No. Burning waste material results in pollutants being introduced into the air and environment which presents an expensive health hazard and can be costly to clean up. Also most waste is not entirely consumed by fire so measures must still be taken to dispose of what is left. Most of what is burned is food leftovers, wood and plants. Instead of becoming ashes, this biological material can be composted to be recycled as useful topsoil material. Metal and plastic waste including containers and electronics can also be recycled and reused.
What would MOST LIKELY happen if Londoners started putting household waste in the Thames again?
it is not c because i got it wrong
Is there any thing free in the world?
Most household waste materials are not only free to recycle into useful things but you can also get paid to remove them
Where do most of the heavy metals lead arsenic zinc cadmium copper and mercury in household waste come from?
The most is plastic packaging, like plastic bags, containers and more
What are insinoraters?
I am going to guess you mean incinerators, which are high temperature ovens that reduce most anything that goes in them to ash.
Most of the regulated medical waste in the US is incinerated. These incinerators are a health hazard because they release pollutants like lead into the air. How could technology be best used to solve?
Such waste must be heated to the temperatures of an incinerator to completely sterilize the material. Special scrubbers and filters can prevent the escape of pollutants, but the effluent of the scrubbers and/or the expended filters must then be disposed of as hazardous wastes.
Where do most of the heavy metals in household waste come from?
Most of the waste comes from buying certain things hat aren't excactly neede then wasting it. Usually the average American family doeasn't know that it ends up around some baby ducks neck in Guam.
In most medical procedures hazardous waste is produced. This hazardous waste is usually burned which can release hazardous chemicals like lead into the air. How could technology be best used to solve?
Find a way to burn the waste without releasing chemicals into the air.
