What Goes Where
How Long Does It Last
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
How Recycling Works
How to Help
100
Plastic Water Bottle
Curbside Recycling Cart
100
Paper Bag
1 Month
100
A large system of circulating ocean currents
Gyre
100
MRF
Material Recovery Facility
100
The 3 R's
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
200
Soup Can
Curbside Recycling Cart
200
Wool Sock
1 Year
200
Name 5 items commonly found during a beach clean up
cigarette filters, plastic bags, wrappers, bottle caps, plastic bottles, plastic plates/cups/utensils, glass bottles, cans, straws, paper bags
200
The five main materials being sorted at a single stream recycling facility
Paper, steel, glass, aluminum, plastic
200
A reusable item
grocery bag, water bottle, food container, metal/silicon straw, cup
300
Apple Core
Trash or Compost
300
Styrofoam Cup
Unknown
300
How does trash find its way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Illegal dumping; marine vessels; litter from land
300
The cross belt magnet separates this from the other recyclables
Steel
300
Why buy in bulk instead of individually wrapped packages?
Less packaging produces less waste.
400
Styrofoam
Trash
400
Rubber Sole of a Boot
50-80 Years
400
Why can't we just scoop up the trash in the ocean?
Illusive, changes shape; like soup, not just on the surface of the water, meters below; too costly and potentially harmful to marine life; would take years to clean a fraction of it up
400
This is made from silica, limestone, and soda ash
Clear glass
400
Electronics, clothing, tires, scrap metal, rigid plastic, appliances
Can all be recycled at one of our recycling centers
500
Plastic Bag/Film
Trash or Grocery Store Box
500
Plastic Jug
1 Million Years
500
Seventy-one percent of the world's population of this bird nests on the islands of Midway Atoll.
Laysan Albatross
500
Sometimes called the "Poison Plastic"
PVC...because when it is melted it creates hydrochloric acid
500
Act locally on April 8, 2017
Potomac River Watershed Cleanup
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