Recycling
The best action society can do to improve the environment, economy, and prevent waste from entering oceans.
What is redesigning, reducing, reusing, re-earthing, and THEN recycling?
The dairy products that are compostable.
What are all dairy products?
The most common item in landfills.
What is food waste?
The year of UCLA's zero waste goal.
What is 2020?
Most common recycled material by households.
What is aluminum? (It has a 67% recycling rate)
The key ingredient in compost.
What is soil?
The longest-lasting item in landfills.
What are glass bottles?
The amount of the world's garbage that the United States produces, with 6% of the world's population.
What is half of the world's garbage?
Whether Athens Services charges Chi Omega to come pick up our recycling.
What is NO!!!! It's free with our trash pickup :)
The percentage of plastic produced in the US that is recycled.
What is 25%?
Microorganisms in the soil do this.
What is eating the organic waste and breaking it down?
Number of pounds of landfill waste the average person in the U.S. throws away per day.
What is 4.4 pounds?
The number of plastic bags used every minute.
What is 1 million?
75 percent waste diversion from landfills by 2012 and 100 percent by 2020
What is UCLA's zero-waste goal?
The most recycled material in the United States.
What is steel?
What organic material turns into when it is composted.
What is humus and finished compost?
Number of pounds of solid waste per person in the U.S. that is put into landfills every year.
What is 1,500 pounds?
North America's most recycled material.
What is steel?
90% waste diversion from landfills
What is how UC currently defines zero waste?
A used aluminum can can be recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can in this amount of time.
What is as fast as 60 days?
The amount of organic compostable garbage that is put into a landfill or incinerator each year.
What is 1,200 pounds?
The number of active landfills in the United States.
What is over 3,091 landfills?
Percent of the garbage in the United States that is plant matter and can be composted.
What is 25-30%?
57%
What is UCLA's waste diversion rate in 2019?