True or Trash
True or trash, New York City residents throw out enough garbage each day to fill the entire Empire State Building?
True
Name ANY (or all) of the 6 countries most responsible for the trash in the ocean today...
Sri Lanka, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand
What are in your pillows?
What are hazardous chemicals/neurotoxins
Coined in 1970, what do the “3 Rs” stand for?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
True or trash: The average U.S. citizen can produce up to 3 pounds of trash per day
True (4.9 lbs)
Which country has the highest air pollution?
China, more specifically, Beijing
Where do humans get their first dose of toxins?
What is their mother’s breastmilk
Who created vulcanized rubber?
Charles Goodyear
True or trash, Every year Americans throw out old phones containing over $60 million in gold and/or silver?
True
In which Ocean is there a garbage patch or trash vortex the size of the US located?
What is the Pacific Ocean
What is the most common way of ingesting microplastics?
What is drinking water
Name either (or both) of the 2 "C" forms of plastic invented in the late 1800's that are still used today...
Cellulose and Celluloid
Is there more plastic packaging recovered for recycling than paper packaging?
False (More paper and paperboard packaging is recovered for recycling than all plastic, glass, and metal combined)
Who was the first person to find the North Pacific Garbage Patch?
Captain Charles Moore
What type of pollution causes stress, sleep disturbance, and high blood pressure?
What is noise pollution?
Who invented the first synthetic plastic?
Leo Baekeland
Is it possible to recycle 100 percent of the paper we use?
False (Because of permanent storage, contamination, and fiber degradation, we could never recycle 100 percent of our paper)
What uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean has trash from multiple gyres on its shores?
Henderson Island
What color food dyes may contain cancer-causing contaminants?
What is Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6
What decade which promoted "comfortable living" was mainly responsible for much of the trash we have today?
1950's (because recycling didn't exist and plastic was produced at such a high rate!)