Tricky Materials
Just 2 minutes a day, use this not-accepted squeezable plastic tube to keep your smile sparkling and clean!
What is toothpaste?
This acronym stands for the responsibility of producers to manage the recycling of their products.
What is (EPR) Extended Producer Responsibility?
Recycling paper helps save this natural resource that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What are trees?
The 2028 Summer Olympics games are to be held in this Hollywood star town.
What is Los Angeles?
Protective and squishy foam packaging is accepted via this collection category.
What is flexible plastics?
This facility processes and sorts recyclable materials collected from the public.
What is (MRF) Materials Recovery Facility?
When plastic isn’t properly recycled, it can be blown away into storm drain and eventually end up here.
What is the ocean?
What is Australia?
Buried with food and soil each day,
These plastics are not accepted here.
Though time will wear them slowly away,
In recycling bins, they don't appear.
What are compostable, biodegradable, or oxo-degradable plastics?
A lightweight, clear material used to make plastic beverage bottles.
What is (PET) Polyethylene Terephthalate?
By using recycled materials instead of new ones, manufacturers use less of this, combating climate change.
What is energy?
What is the hardest mineral?
What is a diamond?
It's time for back to school season! You might find these thick-bound, not-accepted reference items thrown in the paper recycling.
What are textbooks?
I’m used just once, then tossed away,
Like cups and straws at a birthday.
Like gift bags and boxes you might see,
In recycling, what could I be?
What is (SUP PLP) Single-Use Products and Packaging-like Products?
A non-linear model that helps to minimize waste production.
What is a circular economy?
A mysterious green light shines from across the water in this Scott Fitzgerald novel.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Grandma’s vase deserves a place.
Not in the recycling, it may break.
Though it’s made with care and grace,
______ don’t belong in the glass recycling race.
What are ceramics?
Two date, this type of plastic is used for milk jugs and detergent bottles.
What is (HDPE) High-Density Polyethylene?
Recycling helps cut down on emissions of this greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This is the farthest planet from the Sun in our solar system.
What is Neptune?
As of 2024, what is the population that Recycle BC serves via curbside, multi-family, and depots?
(To the nearest hundred thousand)
What is 5.6 million people?