Pests
Is spraying pesticides on ants in your house ok?
a. yes
b. only when no children are home
c. no, it's toxic to breathe and toxic residue ends up on hands, feet, carpet, and eventually into our waterways.
c
This item should never be recycled in a standard municipal bin
What is food soiled items?
Other correct answers: plastic bags, styrofoam, bubble wrap, electronics, batteries, foil, most plastic
Environmental benefits of composting
What is reduces greenhouse gas emissions?
Other correct answers: reduces organic waste in landfills, creates rich healthy soil
Things you do to reduce your waste
What is consume less?
Other correct answers include: compost, recycle, reuse, repurpose, donate
What is a mushroom? The largest fungus is in Oregon and is over 1,600 football fields in size.
b. find where they're coming in and seal the entrances or put cinnamon in front of entrances.
c. clean/ wipe down with vinegar where the ants have made their trail!
d. clean the house and don't leave food out.
a. Terro is still questionable as to their ingredients. Better to buy a box of Borax and make your own ant bait--so you know what is in it!
Average number of trees used in paper products per year per person in the U.S.
a. 2
b. 7
c. 10
b. an alternative is to use only recycled paper and paper made from hemp. Toilet paper made from bamboo (bamboo is not a tree and is easy to grow).
Material that should never be composted
What is animal byproducts?
Other correct answers: pet waste, dead plants with insects, charcoal, products with pesticides, anything harmful to plants, anything not plant based
Country in the world produces the most waste
What is the United States?
People do this outside during the day all over the world to reduce stress and breathe easier.
a. sleepb. forest bathing
c. take a shower
b. trees give off chemicals that actually calm and soothe all creatures. Forest bathing is a well-known term in Japan.
People often think of dandelions as weed but what are two true things about them?
a. they're going to kill the lawn
b. they sprout up in poor soil and help repair it with deep taproots
c. Dandelion comes from the French meaning "lions' teeth" -- "dents de lion".
d. they're poisonous to eat.
b and c!
Precent of waste in landfills that is paper that could have been recycled
What is 40%. Now it's just going to sit there for hundreds or thousands of years--why? Because there is no oxygen in landfills which decomposers need to decompose everything.
Creature that aids in the composting process
What is worms?
Percentage of food that gets wasted worldwide
What is 30%?
Are habitat gardens and pollinator gardens the same thing? what makes them the same or different?
Habitat garden can be a place that provides food and shelter for many different creatures, while a pollinator garden has specific plants that attract pollinators like bees and hummingbirds, ladybugs.
What is one good thing that houseflies do? Think about the FBI.
Help decompose animals. They are one of the "I's" in FBI. (invertebrates)
Average of aluminum soda cans that are used in the U.S. each year
What is 80 billion?
Percent of garbage found in landfills in the U.S. could have been composted
What is 50%?
What is the most important reason not to use leaf blowers that many people don't realize?
a. they stink
b. they're loud and they pollute the air
c. they are killing off our insect populations.
c. Leaves on the ground are important habitat for insects. Many insects lay eggs on the underside of leaves in the winter. Leaf blowers destroy this important habitat. We need insects! Remind people not to use leaf blowers in the winter- rake into piles where needed. Leaf blowers only on sidewalks.
If you stopped using which item would help the environment the most and why?
a. aluminum cans
b. plastic bags
c. plastic to go containers
d. plastic utensils
b. plastic bags. Because they are light and blow away out of landfills easily, suffocate animals, and break down into microplastics in our drinking water.
Is flea and tick treatment for dogs and cats a pesticide that is known to cause seizures, organ failure, and death?
YES!
Instead of putting that toxic pesticide on your pet,
simply add garlic to their food,
use geranium essential oil on your dog on walks.
And if an infestation occurs of fleas, use bentonite clay! Nature has all the answers.
Amount of time it takes for glass to decompose when not recycled
What is over 4,000 years?
Amount of time it takes for a plastic bag to decompose
What is NEVER? It just becomes smaller and smaller pieces (microplastics) that collect bacteria and continues to harm all life on earth (cancers, mutations, diseases).
Where most of the food in the U.S. goes to waste
What are homes and restaurants?
Biodiversity= thriving nature. Monoculture=pesticides, technology, artificial, death.
What doe the words biodiversity and monoculture actually mean? Examples?
Monoculture "one crop"--an orchard of almond trees only.
Biodiversity "many different types of life"--an orchard with almond trees, other types of trees, shrubs, grasses.