High Tech Trash - Ecocycle

What are examples of electronic waste/e-waste?

• TVs, Computers, laptops, phones, and tablets

• E-What Now?

• Wasted internet

• Unused wifi

Answer explanation

electronic waste/e-waste - includes TVs, Computers, laptops, phones, and tablets when people are finished with them. These are very difficult to recycle and often end up in a landfill or burned.

What is a landfill?

• a place to dispose of garbage/trash by burying it in the Earth and covering it with soil.

• A land that got full after eating too much

• Landfill schmandfill

Answer explanation

landfill - a place to dispose of garbage/trash by burying it in the Earth and covering it with soil.

Methane is...

• IDK

• Huh?

• a colorless, odorless, flammable gas which is the main part of natural gas. It is 22 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

• What?

Answer explanation

methane - a colorless, odorless, flammable gas which is the main part of natural gas. It is 22 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

Natural resources are...

• materials such as minerals, forests, and water that occur in nature and can be used by people to make the things we use every day.

• Resources like iPads found in nature

• Resources that are organic

• Organic Resources

A toxin is...

• My mom's cooking

• Completely safe

• a poisonous substance that can cause death or harm to living organisms.

• Totally Safe

Zero waste means...

• A lifestyle that you are born with

• Never wasting anything, ever, SERIOUSLY!

• Zero waste focuses on changing the economy from linear to circular. It is not just about making less trash at home, but changing how products are made, so they can be reused and recycled instead of landfilled.

Waste is another name for ______________________________.

• earth

• zero

• trash

Why is waste a huge problem in the environment?

• It pollutes our soil, water and air.

• Waste is not a huge problem.

• It can be used to create other items.

____________ is waste that people leave in the environment instead of recycling it.

• Earth

• Litter

• Zero waste