Environmental Awareness

What are the benefits of recycling?

• Ignoring waste, wasting resources, depleting energy, increasing pollution, losing jobs

• Reducing waste, conserving resources, saving energy, reducing pollution, creating jobs

• Increasing waste, depleting resources, wasting energy, increasing pollution, destroying jobs

Name three ways to reduce waste.

• recycling, composting, reducing consumption

• burning waste, throwing waste in the ocean, burying waste

Why is reusing important?

• To reduce waste, conserve resources, and save money.

• To encourage waste, squander resources, and spend money unnecessarily.

• To promote waste, misuse resources, and lose money.

• To increase waste, deplete resources, and waste money.

What is the first step in the recycling process?

• collection

• incineration

• disposal

• sorting

True or False: Recycling helps conserve natural resources.

• False

• Recycling has no impact on natural resources

• Recycling actually depletes natural resources

• True

What is the purpose of composting?

• The purpose of composting is to create a source of energy.

• The purpose of composting is to decompose organic materials into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.

• The purpose of composting is to attract insects and pests.

• The purpose of composting is to reduce waste in landfills.

How does recycling help reduce pollution?

• Recycling reduces the need for extracting, refining, and processing raw materials, which reduces pollution.

• Recycling actually contributes to pollution.

• Recycling has no impact on reducing pollution.

• Recycling increases the need for extracting, refining, and processing raw materials, which increases pollution.

What are some examples of items that can be recycled?

• wood, metal, fabric, electronics

• food waste, batteries, styrofoam, clothing

• plastic bags, tires, food containers, light bulbs

• paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, glass bottles, cardboard

What is the final step in the recycling process?

• Incineration of waste

• Creation of new products

• Exporting to other countries

• Disposal in landfill

True or False: Reusing reduces the need for new production.

• Reusing increases the need for new production

• Reusing has no impact on new production

• False

• True