Recycling Quiz

How many times can you recycle a can of cat food?
a. once
b. 10 times
c. 100 times
d. infinity (Answer)

Back in 1961, how much wood pulp was in a single diaper?
a. 1 gallon of wood pulp (Answer)
b. Diapers were made entirely of wood
c. 1 bushel

The Department of Agriculture found a way to make disposable diapers out of?
Leaves
News Paper

Magazine

Chicken feathers(Answer) 

Every ton of new glass produced generates ...... lbs. of air pollution?

27.8(Answer)

33.1

42.7

47.3

Using recycled glass to produce new glass products reduces air pollution by .....%?

1-13%

14-20%(Answer)

21-28%

29-35%

To manufacture 85 million tons of paper, how many trees must be cut down and processed?

1.4 billion trees (Answer)

3 billion

5.2 billion

6 billion

Over 5 billion aluminum cans are recycled each year. If laid end to end, these cans would form a line reaching from?

Orlando-Miami

LA-New York

Earth-Moon( believe it or not this is the Answer) 

New York-Paris

Recycling one ton of paper saves?

3 Trees

10 Trees

13 Trees

17 Trees(Answer)

For each $1,000.00 of fast food served, the solid waste created equals?

10 lbs.

25 lbs.

200 lbs.(Answer)

500 lbs.

For each $1,000.00 of fast food served, the solid waste created equals?

10%(answer)

30%

50%

100%

How many acres of forest could be saved by recycling half the world's paper?

10 million

15 million

20 million(Answer)

25 million

How many pounds of plastic are thrown out yearly by Americans?

500 million

5 billion

10 billion

20 billion(Answer)