Recycling Awareness

What are the benefits of recycling?

• Recycling increases greenhouse gas emissions, wastes energy, and harms the environment.

• Recycling is expensive, time-consuming, and has no impact on the environment.

• Recycling leads to the depletion of natural resources, increases pollution, and has no economic benefits.

• Recycling helps conserve natural resources, reduce landfill waste, save energy, and reduce pollution.

Name three types of recyclable materials.

• cardboard

• metal

• paper, plastic, glass

• aluminum

How does recycling impact the environment?

• Recycling increases pollution, depletes resources, and increases waste sent to landfills.

• Recycling has no impact on the environment.

• Recycling only reduces waste sent to landfills but has no effect on pollution or resource conservation.

• Recycling reduces pollution, conserves resources, and reduces waste sent to landfills.

What is the process of recycling?

• Collecting, sorting, processing, and incinerating waste materials.

• Collecting, sorting, processing, and reusing waste materials.

• Collecting, sorting, processing, and disposing of waste materials.

• Collecting, sorting, processing, and converting waste materials into new products.

How can we encourage recycling in our community?

• By raising awareness, providing convenient facilities, offering incentives, collaborating, and implementing stricter regulations.

• By ignoring the issue and hoping it goes away

• By discouraging people from recycling

• By removing all recycling bins from the community

True or False: Recycling helps conserve natural resources.

• False

• Recycling has no impact on natural resources

• True

• Recycling actually depletes natural resources

Which of the following is an example of a non-recyclable material? a) Glass b) Plastic c) Styrofoam d) Aluminum

• c) Styrofoam

• b) Plastic

• a) Glass

• d) Aluminum

What is the purpose of the recycling symbol?

• To indicate the expiration date of a product.

• To show that the product is biodegradable.

• To signify that the product is made from renewable resources.

• To indicate recyclability or use of recycled materials.

What are the three R's of recycling?

• Recirculate, Repurpose, Reclaim

• Renew, Repurpose, Reclaim

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Refuse, Repurpose, Recover

How does recycling help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

• Recycling only reduces greenhouse gas emissions for certain materials.

• Recycling has no impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

• Recycling reduces the need for extracting, processing, and manufacturing new materials, saving energy and reducing pollution.

• Recycling increases the need for extracting, processing, and manufacturing new materials, increasing energy consumption and pollution.