Collecting Rubbish
Which bin should a steel can go to?
The recycling bin for metal.
What does biodegradable mean?
Breaking down and returning to the soil in a natural way. Simply said - rotting away.
How do we call recycled washed paper mixed with water?
Slurry.
How can you recycle broken crayons?
Melt them and make candles.
How do people make plastic?
Plastic is made of oil or gas, taken from undeground.
Which bin should a broken plate go in?
The general waste bin.
How quickly can a paper bag rot away?
One month.
Explain what happens to recycled glass.
Glass is sorted into colour and washed. Then it's crushed, melted and shaped into a new glass.
How worms helps to recycle.
They turn food and garden waste into compost by eating it and pooing out a rich kind of soil.
How much rubbish does each person in the world make each year? (on average)
Four times their body weight.
When did rubbish start being collected and why?
Two to three hundred years ago. People's waste started to pile up in cities, polluting the streets and making people sick.
How quickly can glass bottle rot away?
A million years.
Name all five materials which can be recycled in a sorting centre.
Glass, Plastic, Aluminium, Paper and Steel.
Why companies use so much packaging?
To protect things on long journeys and to help food last longer.
How many tons of rubbish goes into our oceans every year?
8 million tons.
Which type of plastic is one of the hardest to recycle?
Polystyrene.
What can be an ash from burned rubbish recycled as?
Building materials.
How are drink cans recycled?
They're cleaned and melted into a pure aluminium, so more cans and packaging can be made.
Explain some ways how to recycle clothes.
Donate to others or to a charity. Rips can bepatched over or sewn up. Old clothes can be turned into blankets or padding for chairs.
How many days it takes to recycle a drink can and get in back in the shop again?
60 days.
Who had a bin named after him?
French lawyer Eugene Poubelle
What can we do with gas (methane) that is collected from landfill sites?
The gas can be burned to make electricity.
How is aluminium sorted in a sorting centre?
Flows of electricity called eddy currents picks out any aluminium from the conveyor belt.
How many slices of bread are thrown away daily in the UK?
20 million.
How many grams of gold contain 100 old mobile phones?
3 grams.