Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint Presentation that summarizes the history of waste management and regulation.

Unit Assignments

Unit I PowerPoint Presentation

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Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint Presentation that summarizes the history of waste management and regulation. Use the notes section in PowerPoint to narrate your presentation. Be sure to address the following:

• Provide one example of how a pre-industrial (before the 18th century) society or civilization handled its waste.
• Include the main events that occurred during each of the periods defined in the textbook (post-war, globalization, and implementation and progress).
• Describe the five main international bodies concerned with waste.
• Define RCRA, NEPA, and CERCLA, and discuss how they influence waste management.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style. Be sure to include in-text citations on your slides, and provide a reference slide that lists all of your sources.

Please follow the Unit I Success Center Power Point Presentation Guide for developing your PowerPoint as it contains the best practices and strategies for creating your slides. Click here to access the Success Center Guide, Creating a Scholarly PowerPoint: Best Practices and Citation Information.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit II Case Study

Research the Mount Polley mine spill. Write a case study of at least two pages (not including title and reference pages) on this event. Your case study should address the following items:

• Describe the incident and its environmental impact.
• Summarize the physical and chemical characteristics of the waste.
• The article mentions poor regulation and oversight, an industry-friendly attitude, and political contributions from the mining company as contributing factors in the spill. Which of these do you think could have contributed the most? Take a position and defend it, using at least one outside resource.
• Discuss one factor that may have contributed to the accident that was not mentioned in the article.

Your case study should include at least four credible sources, including the textbook. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit III PowerPoint Presentation

Imagine that you work for your state’s environmental protection agency in the waste management division. Your boss has asked you to create a presentation on household hazardous waste (HHW) to give to community groups in an effort to encourage people to dispose of HHW properly.

Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the environmental and health risks of household hazardous waste. Use the notes section in PowerPoint to narrate your presentation. Your presentation should address the following topics:

• What is HHW?
• Why is it important to dispose of HHW properly?
• What are some best practices that people should follow to dispose of HHW properly?
• What regulations cover HHW?

All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style. Be sure to include in-text citations on your slides, and provide a reference slide that lists all of your sources.

Please follow the Unit I Success Center Power Point Presentation Guide for developing your PowerPoint as it contains the best practices and strategies for creating your slides. Click here to access the Success Center Guide, Creating a Scholarly PowerPoint: Best Practices and Citation Information.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Article Critique

Write an Article Critique of at least two pages (not including title and reference pages) on the article listed below:

Gilbert, R. (2007). To incinerate or not to incinerate. Alternatives Journal, 33(2/3), 47-49.

You can find this point-counterpoint article in the GreenFILE database of the CSU Online Library. The article presents opposing arguments, made by Richard Gilbert and Mark Winfield, one in favor of incineration over landfilling and one against. Your paper should address the following topics:

• Describe three key arguments made by each author.
• Do the authors’ arguments support their main points?
• What evidence from the textbook supports the main points of each author? You should include one reference to the text for each side of the argument.
• Which side do you support? Be sure to back up your argument with at least one outside source.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit V Homework Assignment

Use www.piktochart.com to create an infographic on electronic waste. Create a free account and use a free template (one not labeled “pro”) to create your infographic. When you are done, click Download on the upper right-hand side of the screen. Choose .jpeg as the file format, and download the image to your computer for submission in Blackboard. Note: In the Download window, you may have to right-click your infographic and click Save As to get it to save where you would like it to save on your computer. Your infographic should contain the following information:

• Mass composition of metals for electronic scrap,
• Major hazardous components in waste electric and electronic equipment,
• Amount of e-waste generated by households, • The hierarchy of treatment for e-waste, and • Environmental effects of e-waste.

The textbook contains more data than can be put on the infographic. Part of this assignment is to interpret the data in order to communicate what you decide is important. You may even want to manipulate the data (add some of the e-waste categories from Table 20.3 together, for example) to create a meaningful infographic. Your goal should be to educate someone about what e-waste is, why it is important, and what actions should be taken all in one graphic. Be creative!

With your assignment submission, include a document that contains your APA-formatted references for this assignment.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VI Essay

Water Quality Report

Imagine that you are in charge of water quality for a local branch of your state’s Department of Environmental Protection. It is an agricultural region with several large industrial farms and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). There have been several algal blooms in local lakes that have affected tourism and resulted in dead zones in the lakes. Your boss has asked you to write a report that describes the situation, analyzes three solutions, and uses one of those solutions in an overall management plan for the region.

Your report should address the following:

• Describe the environmental conditions and chemical processes that are leading to the dead zones.
• Include a two-paragraph summary of three different methods of controlling the agricultural runoff in the area. These methods should be from studies you find in the CSU library in a peer-reviewed journal. Each summary should consist of a description of the study, its methods, and its results.
• Prepare a plan of action for the region that uses one of the proposed solutions you have analyzed, along with your reasoning for choosing the solution.

Your paper should be a minimum of two pages in length (not including title and references pages) and follow APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation

Use the CSU Online Library to research a hazardous waste incident such as the Love Canal or Minimata Bay incident. Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation on the incident you choose. You should thoroughly describe the details of the incident and analyze the causes and effects. Your presentation should address the following:

• Provide a brief history of RCRA and what aspects of waste it regulates.
• What was the cause of the incident? What types of waste were involved?
• What were the environmental and human health consequences?
• What regulations were in place at the time of the incident? Were they followed?
• What do you think could have been done to prevent the incident?
• Could this incident happen today with the regulations we have in place? Why, or why not?

Instead of using speaker’s notes, you will write a script and create a voice-over for your presentation. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style. Be sure to include in-text citations on your slides, and provide a reference slide that lists all of your sources.

Please follow the Unit I Success Center Power Point Presentation Guide for developing your PowerPoint as it contains the best practices and strategies for creating your slides. Click here to access the Success Center Guide, Creating a Scholarly PowerPoint: Best Practices and Citation Information.

If you are unsure how to add an audio recording to a PowerPoint Presentation, please see the following tutorial. Click here to access the Success Center Guide, Adding Audio to a PowerPoint.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit VIII Research Paper

This course covers many different waste streams. For your final project, choose one waste stream (you may use any chapter as your topic), and provide an in-depth analysis of that waste stream. Your paper should address the following:

• Describe chemical and physical characteristics of the waste stream.
• Discuss the most significant problems with managing the waste stream.
• Discuss the regulations that apply to your chosen waste stream.
• Analyze the treatment technologies and management techniques for the waste stream.
• Make an argument for the best course of action for managing the waste.

Your Research Paper must be a minimum of five pages in Times New Roman 12-point font (not including title and reference pages) in APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

APA Guidelines

The application of the APA writing style shall be practical, functional, and appropriate to each academic level, with the primary purpose being the documentation (citation) of sources. CSU requires that students use APA style for certain papers and projects. Students should always carefully read and follow assignment directions and review the associated grading rubric when available. Students can find CSU’s Citation Guide by clicking here. This document includes examples and sample papers and provides information on how to contact the CSU Success Center.

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