Post Recycling
What's Really Going Into Our Earth?
You Call Yourself a Tree Hugger?
Are You a Bottle Junkie?
Seeing Sparks
100
What buildings currently have recycling?
What is Hillwood, Post, Suffolk, Kings, Nassau
100
List 3 items that cannot be put in landfills.
What is light bulbs, batteries, paint, electronics, automobile fluids, propane tanks, toxic chemicals (gardening and cleaning products).
100
Every ton of paper recycled saves _____ cubic yards of landfill space. 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4.
What is 3.3.
100
How many sea creatures are killed every year by plastic garbage? 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, 100,000,000
What is 1,000,000.
100
Lighting consumes how much of the electricity in the US? 15%, 25%, 35%, 45%.
What is 35%.
200
Which buildings have the "Got Recycling" Program and what is it?
What is Brookville, Riggs, and SRC. It is a program where the Environmental Assistants come to the buildings that do not have their own recycling centers and go door-to-door collecting recycling from residents.
200
How many tons of waste do you think we each send to landfills in a lifetime? 10-20? 20-40? 40-60? or 60-100?
What is 60-100.
200
Name one item that office paper is recycled into.
What is tissue paper, toilet paper, and paper towels.
200
What percentage of people in America have access to Plastic Recycling Centers/Programs? 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%.
What is 80%.
200
Which uses less energy, a microwave or a stove?
What is a microwave.
300
Where in Hillwood Commons is the new Recycling Center and what objects can you recycle there?
What is the Hillwood Cinema. You can recycle Paper, Plastic, and Cans.
300
Name 3 reasons why plastic bags are bad for the environment.
What is Plastic bags litter has devastating effects on animals, birds and marine life. They mistake them for food & die after ingesting the plastic bag. -Plant life on land is smothered and killed by plastic bag litter -They are not biodegradable and are almost indestructible - They are environmentally unfriendly in the extreme, filling up landfills, blocking drains, littering the land and the oceans.
300
How much pollution is saved when paper is recycled? 25%, 50%, 75%, 95%?
What is 95%.
300
Name 2 things that are saved by recycling just one plastic bottle.
What is water, oil, energy, time.
300
Recycling 1 aluminum can save enough energy to power a TV for up to ___ hours.
What is 3 hours.
400
BONUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are 5 items that can be recycled at Post and 5 items that cannot?
What is water bottles, soda cans, newspapers, cardboard, and plastic bags can be recycled. Food containers, food wrappers, napkins, photographs and wrapping paper cannot.
400
How long does it take for each these items to decompose: Glass, Plastic Bottles, Aluminum Cans. 100-500 years, 500-1,000 years, 1,000-1 million years, 1 million-1 billion years.
What is Glass = 1 million years Plastic Bottles = 500 + years Aluminum can = 200 t0 500 years
400
In the U.S how many people are willing to separate paper for recycling? 1/2, 2/4, 3/8, 8/10?
What is 8 out of 10 people.
400
BONUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What big companies support Recycling?
What is Johnson & Johnson, IKEA, and Fortunoff Furniture.
400
Many "idle" electronics that use energy while not in use absorb ____% of domestic energy. 1%, 2%, 3%,4%, 5%.
What is 5%.
500
What events has the Recycling Program had this semester?
What is Recycling Relay Race, Green Team Competition, Recycling Crafts Night, How Green Do You Think?
500
What is the number one state that imports the most waste?
What is Pennsylvania.
500
In 2008 a record high was reached in the amount of paper collected for recycling. What was the percentage? 10-20%, 20-40%, 50-80%, 80-100%.
What is 50-80%.
500
Plastics in the US are made mostly of what? Air, Water, Oil, Gas
What is Natural Gas.
500
BONUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is one way that you can make your dorm room greener?
What is buy a plant, purchase items from thrift stores instead of having everything new, use energy efficient light bulbs.
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