Section of the grocery store where food has no packaging.
What is the bulk section.
100
Materials collected separately in Portland Metro curbside recycling.
What is glass and/or motor oil
100
A vehicle that empties your trash cart from the curb.
What is a garbage truck
100
There might be a higher cost upfront when buying these products instead of single-use products.
What are reusable?
100
The date that the total solar eclipse passed over Oregon this past summer.
What is Aug 21st, 2017?
200
Saving these three things makes reducing and reusing better than recycling.
What is resources, energy, and money
200
Number of trees saved when one ton of paper is recycled
What is 17
200
Amount of trash one person makes daily
What is 4.4 pounds
200
These communities are mostly likely found near landfills.
What are low income and minority communities?
200
The name of the supermarket with the abbreviation of QFC.
What is Quality Food Center?
300
Refusing these four single-use items is a good start to living zero waste.
What is plastic bottles, straws, bags, and coffee cups
300
Percentage of energy saved when a soda can is made from recycled aluminum instead of raw materials
What is 95%
300
Process that generates energy from household garbage
What is incineration
300
Food without packaging usually means fresh fruits and vegetables. A community without access to these foods is in a:
What is a food desert?
300
The continent with the fewest flowering plants.
What is Antarctica?
400
These two ingredients make a basic homemade all-purpose cleaner.
What is baking soda and vinegar
400
Volume a plastic container must hold in order to be recycled in Portland Metro curbside.
What is 6 ounces
400
A gas emitted from decomposing food in a landfill
What is methane
400
The name of the waste disaster near Niagara Falls, New York in the 1950s.
What is Love Canal?
400
The name of Lara's dog.
What is Miss Pig?
500
An economic model ideal for a zero waste society.
What is a circular economy
500
Portland Metro's recycling rate
What is 48%
500
Landfill that receives all household trash from Portland Metro
What is Columbia Ridge Landfill, Arlington, OR
500
In some countries around the world people make their living off of recycling products found in landfills. In the movie Garbage Dreams the Zabbaleen recycle Cairo’s waste. Zabbaleen is the Arabic word for _________.
What is "garbage people"?
500
The three Americorps members who primary job is related to waste reduction.