Recycling

What is recycling?

• A way to take trash and turn it into new products.

• A way to take silver into new products.

• Taking the trash out.

• Eating all of your dinner and not wasting any.

What are the benefits of recycling? Choose all the correct answers.

• • Landfills - Recycling materials means less trash and saves space in dumps and landfills.

• Money - There is a lot of money in recycling.

• • Resources - When we use materials again, this means we can take fewer resources from the Earth.

• • Pollution - In general, recycling materials can produce less pollution helping to keep our environment clean.

What can be recycled?

• plastic

• glass

• metals

• paper

• electronics

________ were one of the first items to be heavily recycled

• Cardboard boxes

• Styrofoam containers

• Aluminum cans

• Paper

When being recycled, plastic goes through these steps. Choose the correct answers.

• They are cleaned

• They are melted down

• They are crushed

• They are shredded

______ starts its recycling process by being mixed with water and other chemicals to break it down.

• Plastic

• Paper

• Aluminum

• A battery

Paper gets shredded and heated up. This process eventually turns the paper into ____.

• plastic

• pulp

• glue

• fertilizer

What can you recycle at home?

• newspapers

• paper homework pages

• cereal boxes

• All the answers are correct.

Used paper can be recycled around _____ times.

• 7

• 70

• 700

• 7,000

What is the boy recycling?

• plastic bottles

• mineral water

• toys

• food