This and That
Recycling
Glass/Plastic
Aluminum Cans
True or False
100
Why shouldn't we dump our waste in the ocean?
What it is harmful to animals that mistake it for food and cannot digest it or get tangled in it and are unable to swim. It is also harmful to plant life.
100
What is the main color represented in recycling?
What is Green!
100
If you are shopping at the grocery store you can use this item in place of a plastic one?
What is a reusable shopping bag.
** Or a similar answer**
100
How many times can aluminum (like in cans, for example) be recycled?
What is over and over. There is literally no limit to how many times an aluminum can can be recycled. Aluminum can be recycled again and again with no loss in material or quality.
100
Plastic Bags can be made into things such as purses or bracelets?
What is True!!!
200
Turning off lights in your house when they are not needed is one way to save this?
What is Energy!
200
How many arrows are there in the recycling symbol?
What is 3.
200
Turtles often eat plastic bags because they look like these ocean animals that are part of their daily diet?
What is Jelly Fish.
200
True or False. It is best to smash your cans down before recycling?
What is False.
It turns out that if cans are crushed or flattened, you’re often making the jobs of recycling facilities that much harder. When crushed cans enter the recycling stream, they become more difficult to sort out and can contaminate other recyclable materials. A flattened soda can can be sorted as “paper,” for instance, thus contaminating the paper recyclables.
200
True or false you can recycle used up markers.
What is True!!!! Although most cities can't take them in their regular recycling pickup, companies like Crayola does offer that option! We can also now put them in our hefty orange bags!
300
What is it called when you recycle food scraps?
What is composting.
300
What are the 3 R's?
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
300
Approximately, Americans use about how many plastic drinking straws per day?
a. 50,000
b. 100,000
c. 250,000,000
d. 500,000,000
What is D. 500,000,000.
500 million straws could fill over 127 school buses each day, or more than 46,400 school buses every year!
300
Recycled aluminum cans can be made into which of the following?
A. Airplane
B. Bicycle
C. Aluminum Can
D. All of the above
What is D. All of the above.
300
You can use plastic water bottles to build a house?
What is True!
400
What is the message/theme of the story The Lorax by Dr. Seuss?
What is the theme of The Lorax is to be careful with the environment because it is special. Not being careful with the environment can lead to bad results like plants and animals dying.
** Anything close to this answer will be accepted. **
400
If you make something new out of a soda can you are?
What is reusing. Also called upcycling.
400
How long does plastic take to degrade?
A.) 50 years
B.) 200 years
C.) 450 years or more
What is 450 years or more.
400
True or False. Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild all of the airplanes that are in the United States commercial air fleet.
What is true. That is around 7,550 planes!
400
You drink some of your drink, but do not finish it. No worries! It it is just fine to throw it into the recycling bin without dumping the liquid out.
What is False! You always want to make sure liquids have been poured out. If you leave it in the container, it can make other materials like paper soggy and then they can't be recycled.
500
On April 22 we celebrate this day dedicated to bringing our attention to the environment and what we can do to help?
What is Earth day.
* It has been celebrated since 1970!
500
Do staples have to be removed before recycling paper?
What is No.
500
Around how many marine animals die each year from plastic entanglement and ingestion?
a. 1,000
b. 10,000
c. 100,000
What is C. 100,000.
500
True or False: An aluminum can journey from the recycling bin through the recycling process and back on to store shelves in as little as 60 days.
What is true!
500
The average person in America generates around 4 pounds of trash a day?
What is true.
The Average American makes a lot of trash!
