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This letter stands for swapping out a part, person, or material for something else.
What is Substitute?
A plastic item that is used once then thrown away.
What is Single-Use plastic?
The effect of warming of the Earth's surface caused by gases trapping heat in the atmosphere.
What is Greenhouse Effect?
This word is the most effective since it stops waste from being created in the first place.
What is Reduce?
This source of energy officially surpassed coal as the world’s leading source of electricity.
What is Renewable Energy?
The idea of merging two products together.
What is Combine?
Tiny particles found in the ocean and even in our food chain.
What are Microplastics?
Renewable energy source that converts sunlight into electricity.
What is Solar Power?
Instead of throwing away an old cup, you wash it and use it to store pencils.
What is Reuse?
A single large data center for this booming technology can consume 2 million liters of water a day—as much as 6,500 homes.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
The idea of changing the sequence of events by looking at them backwards.
What is Reverse?
Having large amounts of plastic accumulating in oceans and harming marine life is called...
What is Ocean Pollution?
This term refers to the total emissions caused by an individual or product.
What is Carbon Footprint?
The idea of turning old glass or paper into new products.
What is Recycle?
This popular trend involves companies releasing thousands of new clothing items a week.
What is Fast Fashion?
The idea of making something bigger by changing its shape, color, or texture.
What is Modify?
This country is known to be the largest producer of plastic waste in the world.
What is China?
This energy source uses underground heat from the Earth.
What is Geothermal Energy?
This involves fixing a broken item instead of buying a new one.
What is Repair?
This item, often found in coffee pods or soda cans, is 100% recyclable and can be back on a store shelf as a new can in as little as 60 days.
What is Aluminum?
Bubble wrap was originally intended to be textured wallpaper; using it for shipping protection is a famous example of what?
What is Put to another use?
This word describes plastic alternatives that can be broken down by bacteria or other living organisms.
What is Biodegradable?
This layer of the atmosphere protects Earth from UV radiation but acts as a greenhouse gas when found at ground level.
What is Ozone?
The idea of taking trash and turning it into something of higher value.
What is Upcycling?
This material used in electric car batteries and smartphones is being called "the new oil" because it is so valuable and difficult to mine sustainably.
What is Lithium?