Waste-ketball
This is a project for the Morningside Unversity Student Government Sustainability Subcommittee. This is for Earth Week 2022. Each 'option' is a true/false question about recycling, composting, or trash. Answer the question correctly for your chance at sustainability-themed prizes & gift cards.
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- Recycling saves communities money
- Plastic packaging is recovered more for recycling than paper packaging
- Old corrugated boxes can be recycled
- Post-Consumer paper is paper that has been used by consumers
- Only half of the states in the United States have recycling mills
- More paper is sent to landfills in the United States than is recovered
- Thirty-five percent of the fiber used in U.S. mills comes from recovered paper
- Wood fibers can be recycled indefinitely
- There are more trees in the United States today than there were 70 years ago
- It is possible to recycle 100 percent of the paper we use
- The daily waste produced in the U.S. would fill a football field to a height of just over 300 feet
- Americans recycle 50% of their waste paper products
- Recycling an item is better than reusing it
- As an individual there is very little you can do to reduce the amount of waste you generate
- The 3 R's of waste management stand for "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle"?
- Using rechargeable batteries is a good way to reduce waste
- Recycling materials always saves energy
- Recycling means changing old materials into new products
- Once we throw away something it disappears after a few years in a landfill
- Recycling is the only way that we can decrease the amount of waste we make
- Landfills are designed to protect the environment
- Landfills on average create enough gas to power 27,000 homes for 30 years