Waste Awareness segregation

What is Recycling Process?

• To use something more than once

• To convert waste materials into new materials and objects

• use and produce less things

Where does the majority of plastic waste end up?

• Ocean

• Recycled

• Burned for energy

• Landfills

What happens to plastic waste?

• It is a biodegradable material, so it eventually disintegrates

• There is no such thing as plastic waste, all plastic is recycled

• It never fully goes away, it just breaks into little pieces

• It is dumped in the ocean for fish to eat.

Why is plastic dangerous for marine life?

• a) They mistake it for food and cannot digest it.

• b) They can get tangled in it which hinders their ability to swim.

• c) Both a and b

• d) It's not dangerous because they use plastic waste for habitats.

Plastic bags can take up to --------------   to decompose

• 400 years

• 3 years

• 10 years

• 1,000 years

WHAT ARE THE 3R'S OF RECYCLING?

• Redirect, Rude, Round.

• Respectful, Responsible, Right.

• Rewrite, rewind, respond.

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 

Each ton of recycled paper can save -------------

• 17 trees

• 1 tree

• 100 trees

• 8 trees

According to brf waste colour’s code; what goes into the blue recycling bin?

• Plastic

• Newspapers and paper bags

• Household and Non-recyclable Waste.

• Glass bottles

Paper napkins go in which cart?

• Recycling Cart

• Trash Cart

Greasy cardboard goes in which cart?

• Recycling Cart

• Trash Cart