Recycle // Landfills

A modern landfill is meant to protect the soil, air and ground water around it.

• Yes, it is.

• No, it's not.

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Do modern landfills preserve the surrounding environment? (usually, for years and generations to come)

Answer explanation

Yes

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Special water, or air misters help to block the odor around the outside.

• It's not a air mister

• Yes it does

• No, and everything in this question is false

• Yes, but not the outside

Air misters help reduce pollution and smell from the landfills

• Yes

• Not exactly

• No

Even after a landfill is closed, it can stay open for up to 30 years.

• 30 years?!?!

• It won't stay open

• Yes it can

• Only a decade

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The people and robots working at the recycling center take out anything that cannot be recycled

• Yes

• No

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Sifters organize cardboard and plastic by weight and size.

• Yes, they sort it by weight and size.

• No, sifters separate cardboard and plastic by color.

• Sifters classify cardboard and plastic by type.

• Sifters group cardboard and plastic by weight.

Optical sorters use light and air to separate cardboard and paper by type

• NO

• Mechanical sorters use levers and air to separate cardboard and paper by type

• Yes they do

• None of the above

When the recyclable material is compacted into a cube/cuboid shape, it can be easily stacked, loaded, or removed from trucks.

• Reduces waste

• Cost-effective solution, making it less expensive

• It does

• It improves transpotation

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Any recycable material can make carpets, clothes, and even in some cases, airplanes!

• no.

• Yes, it can

• Maybe, it depends

• Impossible, can't be done in any scenario

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3