Reduce, Reuse...Recycle?

Reduce, Reuse...

Recycle?

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Poll

Do you recycle at home?

• YES

• NO

• I have no idea

Lists of items that can and cannot be recycled are included.

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​Centre County Recycling

Multiple Choice

Plastic containers should be rinsed before recycling.

• True

• False

Open Ended

In Centre County, you cannot place miscellaneous plastics into your curbside bin. List something that you think might be considered a miscellaneous plastic.

These cannot go in curbside bins,

BUT there are various local places where you can drop off these items including:

• ​Centre County Refuse & Recycling Authority

• CVS (South Potter St.)

Misc. Plastics

Open Ended

Although plastic grocery bags cannot be recycled at these Misc. Plastic Drop-Off locations, name somewhere you could go to drop off your plastic bags for recycling.

Multiple Choice

What has caused a major setback in U.S. recycling?

• countries like China have stopped buying our recycling

• need to reduce greenhouse gases has halted recycling plants

• reduction in local funding for recycling

Multiple Choice

All plastics are equally recyclable.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

All products with this symbol can be recycled.

• True

• False

Each time plastic is recycled it's lengthy polymer chains shorten, making them weaker and less usable.

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​Plastic recycling has a deadline

World's Largest Plastic Bottle Recycling Center

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CarbonLite

Multiple Choice

What is closed-loop recycling?

• putting new products into the same region it was recycled in

• creating new bottles from recycled bottles

• only recycling the highest quality plastics

Multiple Choice

Plastic bottles can be recycled into clothes, stuffing, shoes, and many other products that eventually end up...

• also being recycled into new products

• being recycled back into bottles

• being thrown away

8 things we can do

Multiple Choice

In what way is using aluminum environmentally better than using plastic?

• aluminum can be recycled indefinitely

• less invasive methods of extracting raw materials

• aluminum pollution degrades faster in the environment