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=Hazardous Waste: Sources, Problems, and Management = =Vocabulary:= 1. Disposable waste 2. Classes of waste 3. Solid waste and landfills 4. Waste composition 5. Leachate 6. Hazardous waste 7. Toxic materials 8. Principal sources 9. Distribution 10. Waste disposal 11. Historical trends and practices 12. Midnight dumping 13. Open lagoons 14. Surface storage 15. Burial 16. Communist bloc policies 17. Love Canal, New York 18. Bhopal, India 19. Acute toxicity 20. Chronic toxicity 21. Carcinogens 22. Risk assessment 23. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 24. Superfund 25. Polluter-pays laws 26. Disposal versus treatment 27. Secure landfill 28. Surface impoundment 29. Deep-well injection 30. Ocean dumping 31. Low level radioactive waste 32. High level radioactive waste 33. Reprocessing 34. Radioactive decay 35. Weapons installation 36. Nuclear Waste Policy Act 37. Yucca Mountain 38. Hazardous Waste Treatment 39. Land application 40. Biopersistence 41. Recycling 42. Incineration 43. Waste reduction 44. Source reduction, minimization 45. Recycling 46. Traditional activities 47. Waste exchange 48. Container recycling laws 49. Waste seperation 50. Paper recycling 51. Automobiles 52. Integrated waste management 53. Public policy 54. Costs 55. Benefits