Pollution Prevention Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• repurpose : taking items that were meant for one purpose but can be used for other ones
• carbon footprint : the total amount of greenhouse gases that are generated by our actions (two words)
• prevent : keep from happening
• recover : using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs
• footprint : ecological _ , measure of the demands made by a person or group of people on global natural resources
• plan : an environmental management _ is a set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency
• air : the mixture of invisible odorless tasteless gases (e.g. nitrogen and oxygen) that surrounds the earth
• cost effective : it is often more _ (two words) to prevent pollution from being created at its source than to pay for control, treatment and disposal of waste products
• hazardous waste : a waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment (two words)
• tsca : toxic substances control act ( i.e. the act that authorizes the epa to regulate and screen all chemicals produced or imported into the united states to prevent unreasonable risks to health and the environment)
• eliminate : to completely remove or get rid of something
• waste reduction : , anything that reduces waste by using less material in the first place (two words)
• source reduction : activities designed to reduce the volume, mass, or toxicity of products throughout the life cycle (two words)
• scil : the safer chemical ingredients list (i.e. a list of chemical ingredients designed to help manufacturers find safer chemical alternatives that meet the criteria of epa’s safer choice program)
• waste : discarded materials
• circular : a _ economy reduces material use, redesigns materials, products, and services to be less resource intensive, and recaptures “waste” as a resource to manufacture new materials and products
• pollution : the introduction of harmful materials into the
• water conservation : the practice of using water efficiently to reduce unnecessary water usage
• lifecycle : the succession of stages that product foes through during its existence
• improve : grow in quality
• recycle : the process of collecting and processing materials (that would otherwise be thrown away as trash) and remanufacturing them into new products
• reduce : make smaller in size or number
• environment : the air, water, and land in which organisms live