Vocabulary Q1: ... Recycling, including composting, diverted 57 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 1996...

Vocabulary Q2: ...filled with recovered materials stacked end to end...

Vocabulary Q3: ... how an individual recycling program impacts a community's total waste management costs...

Vocabulary Q4: To somewhat insulate recycling programs from severe market swings, ...

Vocabulary Q5: Many of these benefits might not be apparant to casual observers, might be clouded by municipal accounting and taxing peculiarities, or might ...

Vocabulary Q6: ... other than those managed by municipalities, such as industrial wastes, construction and demolition debris, and agricultural wastes.

Vocabulary Q7: Recycling has been one of the growth industries of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Recycling is not a fad.

Vocabulary Q8: With this abundance came an increasing tendency to discard and replace products after their initial use, rather than to reuse or recycle them.

Vocabulary Q9: In the 1980s landfill shortages began to occur, ... , leading to garbage being transported long distances, frequently across state lines.

Vocabulary Q10: Government agencies at all levels have worked to ensure recycling's viability by increasing government purchases of recycled-content products.

Vocabulary Q11: Recycle Ann Arbor bids competitively for, and consistently wins, the city contract to provide recycling services.

Vocabulary Q12: The high volume of diversion helps hold down the costs.