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Laws:
Federal Hazardous Substances Act Hazardous Material Transportation Act (HAZMAT) Nuclear Waste Policy Act Low Level Radioactivity Act RCRA Toxic Substance Control Act (TOSCA) CERCLA Price-Anderson Nuclear Indemnity Act



Notes:
|| =Unit 8: Risk, Waste, Environmental Health, Toxicity, & Waste=

Chapter 14
Chapter 22

Goals: Environmental Health

 * Identify the major types of environmental health hazards
 * Describe the types, abundance, distribution, and movement of toxicants in the environmental
 * Discuss the study of hazards and their effects, including: case histories, epidemiology, animal testing, and dose-response analysis
 * Compare bioaccumulation and biomagnification and give examples of each
 * Describe policy and regulation in the US and internationally as it relates to waste and toxicity
 * Explain what a brownfield is and possible cleanup solutions, including bioremediation & phytoremediation
 * Explain how emerging diseases work and give examples
 * Define and give examples for the following: conservation, preservation, restoration, remediation, reclamation, and mitigation
 * Compare acute and chronic exposure

Goals: Risk

 * Assess risk assessment and risk management
 * Compare philosophical approaches to risk

Goals: Waste Management

 * Summarize and compare the types of waste we generate
 * List and describe the major approaches to waste management
 * Delineate the scale of the waste dilemma
 * Describe conventional waste disposal methods: landfills and incineration
 * Evaluate approaches for reducing waste: source reduction, reuse, composting, and recycling
 * Discuss industrial solid waste management and principles of industrial ecology
 * Assess issues in managing hazardous waste

Skills

 * Perform and analyze an LD-50 experiment
 * Perform a Life Cycle Analysis on an everyday item ||
 * ==Extras==

Biomagnification/Bioaccumulation
Bioaccumulation of Pollution DDT & Rachel Carson

LD 50
Virtual LD 50 Lab

Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases
TB Resistant to all Drugs

Environmental Health
Pesticides Harm Mothers and Their Kids Hazardous Waste Down the Street Poisoned Places Estrogen in the Oceans Mushroom Burial Suits? Cosmetics Database Chemicals Cause Parkinsons Natures Way of Showing off Pollution Score Card Texas Superfund Sites EPA Brownfields Greenfields vs. Brownfields Lead Poisoning in Children Yep, There's Lead in lipstick

Waste
Paper of Plastic? Plastic With No Chemicals? Waste Watcher Game Story of Stuff: Electronics TED Talk: Cradle to Cradle Interactive Sanitory Landfill Interactive Waste Incinerator Composting Animation Plastic Bag Slap! Waste to Energy Story of Stuff Video Recycling Symbols Trash inc Eco Tourism and Water Bottles

Materials Science
Call for Conflict Free Gadgets

Hazardous Waste
Nat Geo: Half Life Dealing with Nuclear Waste || ==Assignments== ||