The Three R's
The "Three R's" stand for
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
True or False: Water bottles are recyclable
What is True?
The five types of pollution
What is Air, Land, Water, Light, and Noise Pollution?
Ways compost can effect our environment
What is create rich and nutrient soil to use to grow?
The object paper is made from
What are Trees?
The definition of Reduce
What is to use less of something, creating smaller amounts of waste?
The most common items to be placed into a recycling bin
What are cardboard, paper, newspaper, plastic bottles, glass, cans, etc.?
How trash may effect our drinking our drinking water
What is contaminates and makes our waters unhealthy?
Gardening is beneficial to the environment for these reasons
What are to create more oxygen and clean air, creating more healthy foods for people like fruits, and vegetables, and by allowing animals to have a natural habitat to live in
True or False: It takes more energy to create paper than to recycle it
What is True?
The definition of Reuse
What is to use something again?
Recycling is truly beneficial for the environment for this reason
What is reducing pollution?
The way pollution may effect animals (habitat and food wise)
What is creates a unhealthy environment for the animals to live in and if pollution, such as plastic, is digested by the animals it will make them feel full and die due to starvation because they are not receiving the correct amounts of nutrients?
The amount of years it takes for plastic to decompose
What is more than 450 years?
The amount of plastic water bottles it takes to make a polyester tshirt
What is 5 plastic water bottles?
The definition of Recycle
What is to convert waste into reusable material?
These items should NOT be put in a recycling bin
What are food, broken glass, aerosol cans, toothbrushes, ceramic etc.?
The reason natural fossil fuels are better for the environment
What is creating less air, land, and water pollution?
The amount of years it takes for a typical glass bottle to decompose
What is 4,000 years?
___ Gallons of trash is dumped into the ocean each year; ___ Gallons of oil is spilled into the ocean each year.
What is 250,000? ; What is 1.3 million?
The benefits of reducing, reusing, and recycling
What are to help sustain the environment for future generations, save energy, and save money?
The amount of energy recycling one can of aluminum saves
What is the energy to power a TV for 3 hours?
Once the Largest Landfill in the World
What was Fresh Kills in Staten Island, NY?
Aluminum takes ___ years to decompose
What is 500?
Created the recycling symbol
Who is Gary Anderson?