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Visit: City Hall
1. What happens at City Hall?
2. City Hall is a model office for what three things?
3. Attend the Town Meeting. Why does the 3R Committee work
with local government and businesses to create better, more
profitable markets for reused and recycled materials?
4. The 3R Committee conducts email and letter-writing
campaigns to encourage companies to do what two things?
Copy Room
1. Name three ways Recycle City employees reduce the amount
of paper they use.
2. Why do Recycle City employees use mugs for coffee?
3. What type of containers do they use for water?
4. Soda cans and bottles are put in what special location?
Office
1. Explain why it is good to use computers in the office.
2. If you are buying office equipment, computers and lighting
supplies, how can you be sure that you are selecting energysaving models?
3. Read the list of ideas for any office. Which one would be best
to apply at school? Why?
Mayor’s Office
1. Mayor Turner gives lots of recognition to citizens and
businesses for reducing, reusing, and recycling. Do you think
this is a good idea? Why or why not?
2. What are two things Mayor Turner does to ensure Recycle City
continues reducing, reusing, and recycling?
3. To encourage even greater participation in waste reduction
efforts, Mayor Turner and the Recycle City Council are creating
economic incentives for local businesses and waste companies.
What is meant by the term, “economic incentives”?
4. Read the list of economic incentives. Which one do you feel
will be the most effective and why?
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Visit: Auto Wreckers
1. Where are cars recycled in Recycle City?
2. How many parts of a car can be recycled?
Reusable Parts
1. These parts can be recycled: Engines, Carburetors, Fenders,
Seats, Bumpers, Wheel covers and vintage hub caps, Catalytic
converters for emission control. Name two additional parts of a
car that can be recycled.
Old Tires
1. What are “retreads"?
2. Name two things that old tires can be used to make.
Used Batteries
1. Why are disposal of old batteries an environmental problem?
2. How much lead does the average car battery contain?
3. Name two parts of a battery that can be recycled.
Flattened Cars
1. What happens to the stripped cars after Joe has removed all
reusable parts?
2. What are ferrous metals made of?
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Visit: Hazardous Waste Center
Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Center
1. What are household hazardous wastes?
2. Why should household hazardous wastes never be thrown into
the regular trash?
3. Where can residents bring used household items such as
cleansers, cleaning fluids, insect sprays, paint, batteries and
battery acid, motor oil, or old medicines?
4. Why should household hazardous wastes never be thrown into
the regular trash?
Harlin Hazzard
1. Name three forms of hazardous waste.
2. What are four ways waste is considered to be hazardous?
Explain how each is hazardous.
3. Name four ways the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
recommends to prevent pollution from hazardous waste.
Contamination and the Superfund
1. What can happen if hazardous waste is not properly disposed of
in a landfill built especially to handle hazardous waste?
2. Why is this such a big problem?
3. What did the United States, Congress create to help clean up
hazardous waste sites?
4. What is Superfund Law?
5. The Superfund is also a name for the money that the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency uses for what purpose?
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Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
Building
1. What happens to hazardous materials as soon as they are
brought into the Hazardous Waste Center?
Fuel Blending Transfer Area
1. Where are oil-based paints, paint thinners, solvents, and tar for
roofing sent?
2. What happens to these materials at this location?
Treatment and Neutralization Loading Station
1. What is neutralization?
Incineration Transfer Area
1. Is it safe to burn aerosol cans, pesticides, certain acids, and
some kinds of chemicalsat high temperatures?
Hazardous Waste Landfill
1. About how much of Recycle City's hazardous waste has to be
buried in this special landfill?
Recycling and Recovery Loading Station
1. Where are batteries, and antifreeze sent?
2. What is extracted from film photography chamicals that can be
used again?
Paint Remixing and Reuse Area
1. What is the special electric mixer used to do?
2. How is the recycled paint used for graffiti?
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Moonbeams Coffee and Books
Newspapers and Magazines
1. How does Moonbeam encourage customers to reuse newspapers
and magazines?
2. Why does Moonbeam serve coffee in stock the snack bar and
coffee area with real glasses and mugs instead of foam cups?
Reusable Glasses and Mugs
1. How does Moonbeam cut down on the amount of paper and plastic
going into the waste stream?
2. How do reusable mugs save natural resources?
3. Does if save Moonbeam and her customer’s money?
4. What does Moonbeam do to encourage customers to bring their
own mugs from home?
Coffee Grounds and Compost
1. How does the Recycle City School use the coffee grounds from
Moonbeams?
2. Moonbeam buys produce grown with the compost in the school's
garden to make the best ___ and ___ in town.
3. Where does Moonbeam buy her produce?
4. How is this a good example of reusing and recycling?
Used Books
1. Why is it good that Moonbeams offers used books?
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The Community Warehouse
Mr. Fix-It
1. Name six things Mr. Fix-It repairs and refurbishes.
2. What do college students who work for Mr. Fix-it do?
3. How does this help the college students?
4. Name four things Miguel purchased for his first apartment?
5. What did Latifah buy that she can use for her college classes?
6. Did Latifah get a good deal at the Community Warehouse?
7. Why do many states not allow computer terminals to be thrown
away as garbage? (Name the reason and the abbreviation)
8. Why is it easy to fix many appliances?
Recovered Building materials
1. What can people who are renovating their houses find at the
Community Warehouse?
2. Name at least four good materials people can buy that are still in
really good shape.
Pet Shop
1. How is the Recycle City pet shop a little different from other pet
shops?
2. How is newspaper used at the Pet Shop?
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Old Dumptown
1. The old Dumptown landfill is where residents and businesses
threw away everything. What big problem affected the
groundwater occurred because of this?
2. How did the new Recycle City government cleaning up the
problem?
3. Cleaning water is very expensive. Where did the money come
from to clean the ground water in Recycle City?
4. How did the local farms benefit from the “cleaned” water?
5. What was the valuable lesson everyone learned?
6. What is“Superfund”?
New Landfill
1. Name two recyclable materials that are removed at the Materials
Recovery Facility.
2. Where does the remaining household waste go?
3. What is contaminated water at the landfill called?
4. Where does this contaminated water come from?
5. What keeps the contaminated water from seeping into the earth,
rivers, or drinking water wells.
6. How many layers does the liner have?
7. What is the bottom layer made of?
8. What is the strong, flexible, very thick plastic, called and what is
its abbreviation?
9. On top of the plastic is a one-foot layer of _____ with_____
_____ _____ _____.
10.
Above the gravel is a layer of very tough fabric, called _____
_____, to protect the gravel layer and pipes.
11.
Finally, the top layer is about _____ _____of _____ _____to
separate the entire liner system from the _____and to _____ the
liner from being damaged by the waste or landfill equipment.
Sorting Center
1. Name three types of hazardous waste that shouldn't be thrown
into the recycling stream.
2. Instead, where should these hazardous materials be sent?
3. What happens to reusable or recyclable waste?
4. How are yard trimmings and food waste recycled?
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Plastics
1. What plastic is made of?
2. About how much waste plastic comes from packaging?
3. Today, only about seven percent of plastic is being recycled. This comes
mostly from what two items?
4. Separating plastic by type for recycling helps manufacturers produce
higher quality recycled products. What is an easy way to tell which
plastic a container is made of?
5. What two ways are plastics recycled before they can be made into new
plastic products?
6. Which “number” plastics are the easiest ones to recycle?
Other Metals
1. Why does it make good sense to recycle valuable resources such as
metals?
2. Soup and fruit cans, are made of what two metals?
3. Why is it so important that we recycle these particular two metals?
4. Are these cans recycled process the same as aluminum cans?
5. As a result, steel cans may not be accepted by some recycling
companies. If they're not recycled, cans made of these metals
eventually rust and break down, but throwing them away is a waste of
valuable resources.
6. Dissolved tin is made into _____ that are sold to companies that need
tin to make more cans or other products.
Wood
1. How much wood can be reused in some way?
2. What percent of wood recovered from buildings that are torn down can
be reused?
3. How can wood that's in terrible condition be recycled?
4. Why is painted wood hard to recycle?
Glass
1. Name four types of glass that can't be recycled.
2. What three things is glass made from?
3. Does glass ever break down into its original ingredients?
Aluminum
1. In many parts of the country, recycling aluminum cans is a profitable
activity. What does “profitable activity” mean?
2. Aluminum is made from bauxite, where does this an ore come from?
3. Which uses less energy, making new aluminum cans from old cans or
making new cans from bauxite?
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Paper, Newspaper and Cardboard
1. Paper and paper products can be easily recycled; however, they
still make up about _____ percent of the waste stream.
2. Which kinds of paper are recyclable?
3. Recycle City collects just about everything made out of paper
except for which three types of paper?
4. How is paper recycled?
Yard and Food Waste
1.
2.
3.
4.
Name three things that can be recycled from your yard.
Name three used for compost.
What five waysdoes compost improve a garden?
Compost can reduce the need to use what two things?
Re-Run Theater
1. What is recycled at The Rerun Theatre?
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Shaq’s Garage
1. What kind of hero is Shaq?
2. Why does Shaq provide regular tune-ups for Recycle City's
vehicles?
At the Pump
1. Name four things drivers can do to help protect the environment.
Maintenance
1. Name four ways people can help their cars run better and help the
environment.
Used Motor Oil
1. What is the best way to handle used motor oil?
2. Can people who change their own oil take it to a local gas station,
oil-change shop, or hazardous waste drop-off center for recycling?
3. Why is it dangerous to pour used motor oil down the sewer or into
a drain?
Used CFCs
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What are CFCs?
CFCs are used for what purpose?
What happens if CFCs escape into the the stratosphere?
Can CFCs can be recycled?
Why are CFCs gradually becoming less of a problem?
Toxic Solvents
1. What is the largest source of hazardous waste from auto repair?
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Underground Storage Tanks
1. Is it better to store gasoline in tanks above ground or below
ground?
2. What does secondary containment mean?
3. What's a UST LDS anyway?
Electric Cars
1. Where do electric cars get energy instead of a gas pump?
2. What comes out of the tailpipe of an electric car?
Old Tires
1. Can Worn-out tires be recycled?
2. How do mosquitoes use improperly discarded tires?
3. What percent of all tires are reused, recycled, or recovered in
useful ways?
4. What is one thing we can all do to generate less old tires?
Protecting water quality
1. Why does Shaq use mops to clean the shop floor?
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Maria's Market
1. What was the first and best thing Maria realized she should do to reduce
the amount of waste her customers had to throw away after they bought
products at her market?
Bulk and Fresh Foods
1. Packaging materials make what percent of all consumer waste?
Paper Towels and Other Paper Items
1. When you shop, you should look for what label, that means your new
paper product was made using a certain amount of previously used paper
products?
Paper or Plastic?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What are paper bags made from?
Is paper a renewable resource or non-renewable resource?
What are plastic bags made from?
Is plastic a renewable resource or non-renewable resource?
What is the best bag to use for shopping?
Cardboard Boxes
1. Name two things used cardboard boxes can be used for.
Maria
1. What deal did Maria make with farmers?
2. How can customers receive a discount form Maria?
Recycling Igloos
1. What are igloos used to collect?
Lighting
1. What special type of light bulbs are used in Recycle City?
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Widget Manufacturing
Smokestack Scrubber
1. What are scrubbers used for?
2. How canacid gases effect the environment?
Commuting to Work
Bicycling
1. What are two benefits for bicycling to work?
Transit
1. How does riding the bus help the environment?
Carpooling
1. How can worker at The Widget factory find others that may want
to car pool or van pool?
Telework
1. How does closing the accounting office one day each week save
money?
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Reduced Packaging
1. How many times can corrugated boxes be reused and repackaged
before recycling them.
2. Does it save a little or a lot of money to reuse boxes?
Fixing Widgets
1. Does it safe energy to repair widgets?
Packing Widgets
1. What is used to make popcorn-like packing material?
2. In the old days, what was used to make “peanuts”?
3. How is the new material discarded when it's no longer needed?
Washing Widgets
1. What common household ingredients are used used to clean off
newly manufactured widgets?
Recycled Metal
1. What is meant by a “non-renewable” resource?
2. Where does Widget Manufacturing buymetal?
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The Savemor Family Home
Reusable Items
1. What do the Savemors do twice a year that helps the environment
and makes money?
2. Sheila and Sidney came up with ideas for how some things can be
reused at home. List at least one way each of the following items
can be reused.
 Plastic bags
 Brown paper bags
 Paper and envelopes
 Packaging, colored paper, and egg cartons
 Bubble wrap
 Used wood
Tire Swing
1. How did Sue and Seymour recycle a used tire?
Homemade Cleaners
1. Name a safe substitute for each of the following toxic cleansers.
 Heavy-duty cleaners for surfaces
 Drain cleaners
 Harsh oven cleaners
 Furniture polish
 Air fresheners
Appliances
1. When old appliances need to be replaced what do the Savemors
always check before purchasing a new appliance?
2. When an old appliance has to go, who do the Seymours call?
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Lighting
1. What type of light bulb is used in all of Recycle City?
2. How are citizens of Recycle City saving thousands of dollars?
Entertainment Room
1. What do the Savemors watch on TV?
Guidelines
1. The Savemors use some simple guidelines to reduce waste. Which
three of the Savemors guidelines do you feel are the easiest ways
to reduce waste?
Fireplace
1. How did the Savemors recycle bricks?
2. Why do the Savemors burn logs made from pressed wood?
Solar Panels
1. What do the Savemors use to generate electricity?
2. Why is good to use solar energy?
Clothesline
1. Name two reasons the Savemors hang clothes on the line to dry.
Compost Bin
1. Name five things that can be reccyled in a compostbin.
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Recycle City School
Miss Redux
1.
2.
3.
4.
What
What
What
What
does Miss Redux always teach in her lessons?
always comes first and why?
always comes second and why?
is third but not last and why?
Library
1. Where is the best place to learn about reuse at school?
2. Why is this location a good example of reuse?
Compost Bin
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
What is a compost bin used for?
Name four benefits of using compost.
Who tends the compost bin at school?
Name four things that should not go into the compost bin.
Why should these things not go into the compost bin?
How do the students know when the compost is ready to be
spread in the school garden and around shrubbery in the
schoolyard?
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Recycle City School
Recycling Drive
1. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves how many trees?
2. How are really old sneakers recycled?
3. Besides collecting in the cafeteria, how are student’s collecting
cans and glass bottles to raise money?
School Bus
1. Which creates less traffic and air pollution, cars or buses?
2. How are electric buses a good idea?
Playground
1. What item can be recycled and used in many ways on
playgrounds?
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Home Cleaning and Household Supplies
1. Name seven items around the house that are dangerous if they
are just thrown away with the regular garbage.
2. Why are these items dangerous?
3. Name eleven household supplies that should not be thrown in the
regular garbage.
4. Read the garbage and garden supply list. Name at least five of
these items you have used at your own home.
5. Read the paint and hobby supply list. Name at least three that
have been used at your home and tell where each was used.