Water
Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic
Solid Waste
Bottled Water
100
What is the process that leads to dead-zones?
What is eutrophication.
100
How large is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
What is 10 million square miles or twice the size of the United States.
100
The United States makes enough plastic each year to shrink-wrap what State?
What is Texas.
100
Give me two examples of solid waste.
What are...
100
What is 25% of all bottled water comprised of?
What is tap water.
200
About how much of the Earth's surface is covered in water?
What is 75-80%.
200
What material comprises 90% of the waste in the Garbage Patch?
What is Plastic.
200
How much has the recycling industry in the United States grown in recent years?
What is by 3 times (tripled).
200
Who makes solid waste?
Who is everyone!
200
There are 714 million gallons of what used to make and transport plastic water bottles?
What is oil.
300
How many gallons of water per day does it take to produce the average American's diet?
What is 1,000 gallons.
300
How many times more plastic is there than zooplankton?
What is 6 times.
300
Recycling how many tons of plastic saves the ammount of water used by a person in two months as well as nearly 2000 pounds of oil?
What is one ton of plastic.
300
How many tons of municipal solid waste does Minnesota generate each year?
What is 5 million tons.
300
How many plastic water bottles do Americans use every year?
What is 50 billion.
400
Where is the largest dead-zone in the United States?
Where is the Gulf of Mexico.
400
How many mammals die in the Garbage Patch each year?
What is 100,000.
400
How many tons of plastic are produced globally each year?
What is 100 billion tons.
400
What does the majority of municipal solid waste come from in Minnesota?
What is over-packaged and disposable products.
400
How full must a plastic water bottle be filled with oil to accurately represent the energy used to produce and transport that individual bottle?
What is one-quarter full.
500
How many gallons of water are used to make one, 8 ounce glass of milk?
What is 48.3 gallons.
500
What is the name of the system of currents in which the patch is located?
What is the North Pacific Gyre.
500
What is the term for pre-consumer plastic (that which is molded into consumer goods)?
What are nurdles.
500
What valuable resource is required to produce nearly everything that ends up as solid waste?
What is water.
500
Does bottled water conform to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) strict guidelines?
What is yes.
M
e
n
u