This is where most of the old/obsolete computers go when we are finished with them.
What is the trash or landfill?
100
These are man-made areas where waste is placed in the land.
What are landfills?
100
PET is the standard technical term for this product.
What is polyethylene terephthalate or plastic?
100
These kitchen products should not be put into a compost bin.
What are meat scraps, dairy products and pet waste?
100
This is the most common item made from recycled newspaper.
What is more paper?
200
This is the average number of cell phones that are being discarded/thrown away.
What is 130 million?
200
The four ways to prevent the need for landfills that start with the letter R.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle and rebuy.
200
US residents produced this many pounds of waste per person per day.
What is 4.4 pounds per person per day?
200
This is the process of composting food waste with worms.
What is vermicomposting?
200
This is the average amount of newspaper Americans use each year.
What is 99 pounds?
300
The average television set will decompose in a landfill in this many years.
What is never?
300
This is the average time it takes for a pair of leather shoes to decompose in a landfill.
What is 40-50 years?
300
This many trees are saved when one ton of paper is recycled.
What is 17?
300
Worms consume this much food on a daily basis.
What is 1/2 their weight?
300
This is one way shredded newspapers can be used at home.
What is packaging, in compost, making homemade paper, insulation, vermicomposting bedding, landscape mulch or pet bedding?
400
This is one of the fastest growing sources of landfill waste, and it consists of computers, cell phones, televisions and much more.
What is e-waste or electronic waste?
400
This material in the waste stream accounts for 23% of the fill entering landfills.
What is paper waste?
400
This percentage of trash is made up of discarded paper.
What is 36%
400
Yard trimmings and food waste together constitute for this much of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream going into landfills.
What is 23%?
400
A freight train would be this many miles long if it were filled with paper being recycled everyday in the United States.
What is 15 miles?
500
This is one way to reduce the flow of e-waste to landfills.
What is using the item longer, donating the item, upgrading the item without replacing it, reconsidering the need for the item, or buying replacements from companies.
500
This man-made structure can be seen with the naked eye from outer space.
What is The Great Wall of China or New York's Fresh Kills Landfill?
500
Also known as waste prevention, this term means consuming and throwing away less.
What is source reduction?
500
Worms, heat and other organisms help speed up decomposition in compost bins. Name two of these organisms.
What are mites, millipedes, centipedes, beetles, sowbugs, earwigs, ants, earthworms, slugs or snails.
500
All of the material used to make paper that has been used before is known as this.