Earth Day

Select the things below which are made from fossil fuels.

• Pencils

• Wooden chairs

• Plastic cups

• Petrol

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Select all the things below which are made from fossil fuels.

• Plastic bags

• Petrol

• Metal screws

• Pencils

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The recycling industry is worth how much in the U.S.?

• $200 billion
• $450 million
• $300 thousand
• $50 billion

Glass can be recycled and remanufactured how many times before wearing out?

• an infinite amount
• five times
• one hundred times
• fifty times

Littering has a negative impact on our environment.

• True

• False

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What is to reduce

• To transform things into materials for new things

• to use something more than once

• to use and produce less things

If you take your plastic grocery bags back to the store and place them in the designated bin, they will be ______ into plastic lumber.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

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What is to reuse?

• To transform things into materials for new things

• to use something more than once

• to use and produce less things

• glass

• metal

• paper

• cardboard

How many styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away each year by Americans alone?

• 25 billion
• 50 million
• 5 billion
• 125 thousand

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