Background Information
The 1962 book which inspired the US environmental movement.
What is The Silent Spring?
The step needed by a user so that bottle caps and lids can be recycled.
What is leave the lids on their recyclable containers?
The US state that is the same size as large garbage patch in the South Pacific.
What is Texas?
The average American uses up this many trees in one year in paper, wood, and other products.
What is seven?
These containers needs 17 million barrels of oil every year to produce.
What are plastic water bottles?
The two types of drink containers that are most environmentally friendly.
What are glass bottles and aluminum cans?
The President who signed the first Clean Air Act.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Plastics labeled with this number can't be recycled at Glenaire.
What is #6 plastics?
The movie in which Dustin Hoffman was advised that the future is in plastics.
What is "The Graduate"?
The number of years it takes for a pine tree to reach maturity for harvesting for pulp.
What is 20 years?
The one more heavily tested and regulated: tap water or bottled water.
What is tap water?
Fabrics which release micro plastics into the water when washed.
What are synthetics?
Vice President who wrote a book about global warming.
Who is Al Gore?
A material which cannot be recycled at Glenaire but can be recycled at Publix.
What is styrofoam?
A country with slightly over 4% of the world's population which produces 1/3 of the world's waste.
What is the US?
The location to deposit Glenaire billing envelopes so that they can be reused by the Business Office.
What is the Business Office mailbox slot?
What is plastic waste in the sea?
The Commonly Used Material in pillows and mattresses which releases toxic fumes
What is memory foam?
The two countries that produced the most greenhouse gases in 2017 according to the World Economic Forum
What are China and the US?
Throwaways which can be composted in bins at dock behind Glenaire kitchen
What is food waste?
Percentage of all plastics which are single use
What is 40%?
The length of time it takes Glenaire Dining to use a ream of paper only for printing menus/specials.
What is one week?
The length of time it takes Americans to use 50 million plastic water bottles.
What is one day?
The most environmentally friendly type of bag.
What is any bag that is reused?
The annual April 22nd event that was first introduced in 1970 to encourage environmental awareness.
What is Earth Day?
The part of many plastic containers which cannot be accepted for recycling even if the container can.
What is a plunger or pump?
These tiny particles released from decomposing plastics remain in air and water long after disposal and can be ingested by fish and humans.
What are micro plastics?
The Glenaire location at which to leave brown paper bags to have them reused by Dorcas.
What is the bin outside Suzette's office?
The year by which there is projected to be more plastic than fish in the ocean.
What is 2050?
Roughly the length of time it takes Glenaire Dining to fill the Glenaire pool with large bags of only non-compostable trash.
What is 6 weeks?