Waste Management Quizzes & Trivia

Waste Management! It’s a stinky job but somebody has to do it. Waste management is crucial to maintaining a clean, healthy, livable environment. Whether you realize it or not, there’s more to proper waste management than just taking out the garbage. Test your waste management knowledge here and find out just how much you know about keeping the world clean. Do you know which country produces half of the world’s garbage? Can you estimate how many trees are saved when one ton of paper is recycled?

What percentage of our garbage can be composed because it is made up of plant matter? Can you name something made from recycled glass? These quizzes are fun but it really makes you think. Take it today and learn what you can do to make the world a better place.

This quiz was designed for A&WMA's course, "GENWM-100: Environmental Practices Review Specialty Course: Waste Management" updated in June, 2009.

Questions: 44 | Attempts: 2475 | Last updated: Jul 30, 2011

Sample Question
A discarded material is a waste. Which of the following is not discarding?

Inherently waste-like

Abandoned

Recycled and applied to the land

Excluded

A Trivia Quiz On Waste Disposal!

Do you know anything about waste disposal? Waste is grouped according to source and composition, as waste materials are either liquid or solid in form. The term waste typically refers to sewage, hazardous waste, and electronic...

Questions: 17 | Attempts: 1853 | Last updated: Jan 5, 2021

Sample Question
Which statement describes general waste?

Much of the general waste at St. Paul's Hospital includes common items found in household garbage.

General waste at St. Paul’s Hospital is different and must be treated in special ways.

General waste at St. Paul’s Hospital is not the same as other garbage and is dangerous if not disposed of properly.

4.5 Waste Disposal

Environmental Science Unit 4 - Land Use & Human Impact 4.5 - I CAN describe how modern waste disposal contribute to environmental problems.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 2048 | Last updated: Jun 9, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following is the cheapest way to dispose of waste?

Landfills

Recycling

Incineration

Test Your Waste Management Knowledge! Trivia Quiz

Waste management includes the activities and actions necessary to manage waste from its beginning to its final disposal. This process consists of collecting, transport, treating, and disposing of garbage and monitoring and...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 697 | Last updated: Jan 5, 2021

Sample Question
What are the four basic waste categories?

Hazardous, spent electronics, bulk, municipal trash

Hazardous, non-hazardous, special, universal

Recyclable, organic, inorganic, aqueous

Municipal Solid Waste: Test Your Knowledge About Waste Management! Trivia Quiz

Below is a Municipal Solid Waste trivia quiz to help Test Your Knowledge about Waste Management! TA good sewerage system makes an area clean and at the same time, frees the community from some waterborne diseases and other...

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 524 | Last updated: Nov 6, 2019

Sample Question
The slope range that is prescribed as production land use is

0-18%

Above 50%

16-50%

0-8%

None of the choices

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Waste Management Questions & Answers

How would you describe one type of biomedical waste?

The only statement here that could be used to describe biomedical waste is “waste that is saturated to the point of dripping blood or body fluids contaminated with blood”. Biomedical waste is, by definition, something that has been contam

How is clean, unbroken or broken glass waste to be disposed off?

Into a cardboard box lined with a black bag and taped. For small quantities of broken glass, put into sharps containers.

How should the following objects be disposed? Objects that may be capable of causing punctures or cuts, that may have been exposed to blood or body fluids including scalpels, needles,...

Objects, considered biomedical waste, that may be capable of causing punctures or cuts, that may have been exposed to blood or body fluids including scalpels, needles, glass ampules, test tubes, and slides, should be discarded in a sharps container.

How does recycling, although not a direct part of waste minimization, help to reduce pollution?

Recycling is the conversion of waste into new materials and objects. This conversion dates back to the creation of human history, with records of Plato advocating for it in the fourth century BC. There are many energy savings with recycling. Aluminu