Recycling Quiz

How long does it take for a plastic bottle to degrade?

• 1,000 years
• 21 years
• 3 years
• 1,126 years

Do we recycle steel a lot?

• What?
• More than everything else!
• No, we recycle plastic more!
• We recycle paper more.

How many plastic bags are used per minute everyday?

• 1,000,000
• A lot.
• 854,000
• 315,500

What percent of plastic bags used are actually recycled?

• 1%
• Less than 1%
• 20%
• 10%

How many marine animals are killed each year from plastic bag pollution?

• 90,562
• 600
• 100,000
• 50,000

How much gasoline do you waste by throwing away that one soda can?

• 1 soda can full of gasoline.
• 2 soda cans full of gasoline.
• 1/3 of that can's volume of gasoline.
• Half of that can's volume of gasoline.

For every 2.2 pounds of plankton in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", how much garbage exists?

• 10 pounds.
• 20.6 pounds
• 13.2 pounds.
• 5.8 pounds.

If we recycled all our steel, what could we achieve?

• We can just not recycle it.
• We could produce all the new cars in America.
• Make more soda!
• Make 3 skyscrapers.

Did you know Apple designed the battery to last for about 1-5 years to lure consumers in buying a new model?

• Ok
• Don't pick me or you WILL get it wrong.

How much trash will you see on average by walking down a highway?

• 1,457 pieces of trash.
• 658 pieces of trash.
• 894 pieces of trash.
• 9 orange plastic bags.