Reduce
Taking shorter showers helps save this type of resource.
What is water?
The reduce plastic waste, many people now carry this type of container to stay hydrated on the go.
What is a water bottle?
This plant, found in forests, is the main ingredient used to make paper.
What are trees?
Creek Week is during this month.
What is March?
This type of pollution is emitted by vehicles.
Greenhouse Gases
Turning off lights when leaving a room reduces the amount of this resource being used
What is electricity
Gently used wastewater typically from household activities.
What is gray water?
Winston-Salem uses this color cart for curbside recycling
What is blue?
Forsyth County residents get a significant portion of their drinking water from this local river (and its namesake basin).
What is the Yadkin? (Or Salem Lake)
This potent greenhouse gas, often associated with cows and landfills, traps heat in the atmosphere far more effectively than carbon dioxide over a long period.
What is methane?
Walking or biking for a short trip instead of driving can reduce the amount of this being released into the atmosphere.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This circular economy concept refers to passing down, donating, or selling pre-owned clothing to extend its lifecycle.
What is thrifting? (or secondhand shopping)
Unlike plastics, which degrade in quality when they are melted down, this common beverage can material can be recycled indefinitely without any loss in purity.
What is aluminum? (Or glass)
Forsyth Creek Week hosts night walks at Ivey Redmon Park to listen for and identify these vocal amphibians.
What are frogs?
A pollutant that comes straight from an identifiable source.
What is a primary pollutant?
Instead of throwing away kitchen scraps and yard waste, you can reuse them to create this nutrient-rich soil helper.
What is Compost?
Instead of buying brand new textbooks, electronics, or cars, choosing this "R-word" option means buying items that have repaired and tested to work like new.
What is refurbished?
You should throw this popular type of food container in the trash instead of recycling it, if it is soaked in grease or cheese.
What is a pizza box?
In Winston-Salem, this facility is the final destination for the materials placed in residents's recycling bins.
What is the WM recycling center?
This continent is the most polluted in the world.
What is Asia?
This term refers to the total amount of greenhouse gases generated by our individual actions and consumption choices.
What is a carbon footprint?
When recycling breaks materials down, this process upgrades them without degrading the original material's quality.
What is upcycling?
Thermal paper receipts are barred from standard paper recycling streams because they are coated with this controversial compound.
What is BPA? (or BPS)
To prevent fertilizer and oil from washing directly into local streams, citizens learn about these street-side grates that lead unfiltered to local waterways.
What are storm drains?
What are microplastics?