Students explore some of the reasoning involved in choosing technologies for cleaning up hazardous waste sites. Students assume roles and act out a situation that illustrates the process of decision making during cleanup of a Superfund site. Students discover what can be done to reduce the amount of solid and hazardous wastes that must be disposed of and managed safely. Students will become familiar with how laws affecting hazardous waste are developed, enacted, implemented, and enforced. Students learns how EPA deals with abandoned, accidentally spilled, or illegally dumped hazardous substances from the past.
Students learns what groundwater is, how it is contaminates, and how it is cleaned.
Students learn how effective various methods of cleanup are and why they are used.