Grades K-2 Waste
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1. Who picks up the waste and
recyclables that people leave
at the curb?
3. Which thing in a kitchen
garbage can could be
composted?
5. Which group of things is
organic?
7. Where does litter go if no
one picks it up?
A. refuse haulers
B. volunteer coordinators
A. potato peels
B. an empty ceral box
A. banana peels, egg shells,
leaves and twigs
B. sand, gravel, rocks
A. rain washes it into the
nearest stream
B. it stays where it is dropped
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1. Who keeps conveyor belts
and other machinery in a
recycling center running?
3. Which of these methods of
collecting recyclables is easiest
for people to participate in?
7. Which plastics can be
recycled into fleece, tote bags,
carpeting or new containers?
A. industrial machinery
mechanics
B. refuse and recyclable
material collectors
C. materials scientists
A. curbside, mixed waste
B. curbside, single stream
recycling
C. drop-off center, sorted
recyclables
5. Polyethylene Terephthalate
is used for plastic soda and
water bottles. What number is
it?
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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2. Who organizes recycling for
towns and cities?
4. Which things can be
composted?
8. What is the most littered
item in the world (by number)?
A. recycling coordinators
B. repair persons
A. potato peels, leaves, apple
cores
B. cans, bottles, paper
6. What happens to things in a
garbage can if they are not
recycled, reused or
composted?
A. number 1
B. number 2
C. number 3
A. number 1s
B. number 2s
C. number 3s
CORRECT: A, A
A. cigarette butts
B. drink cups
A. they go to a landfill
B. they are made into art
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2. Who searches for new
things to do with materials
collected for recycling?
A. materials scientists
B. industrial machinery
mechanics
C. recycling plant managers
CORRECT: A, A
4. What is it called when the
recyclables are separated from
the waste and from each other
before they are picked up by a
truck?
A. source separated recycling
B. salvaging
C. mixed waste recycling
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6. Low Density Polyethylene is
used for plastic shopping bags,
and squeezable bottles. What
number is it?
A. number 4
B. number 2
C. number 1
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
8. Which plastics can be
recycled into trash can liners?
A. number 4s
B. number 1s
C. number 6s
CORRECT: A, A
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9. If a person makes 5 lbs of
waste each day, and then
recycles 2 lbs, how many
pounds go to the landfill?
11. Which words mean the
same thing?
13 What is a material that is
hard, shiny and bendable?
15. Which things can be
recycled?
A. waste, garbage, trash,
refuse
B. chair, flower, sunlight, purple
A. metal
B. plastic
A. cans, bottles, paper
B. potato peels, leaves, apple
cores
A. 3 lbs
B. 5 lbs
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9. A laptop can run 5 hours on
the energy saved by recycling
one aluminum can. How many
hours could the laptop run if 10
cans were recycled?
11. Which materials on a
recycling conveyor belt can
magnetic fields pick out?
A. 50 hours
B. 21 hours
C. 25 hours
A. aluminum cans
B. plastic
C. paper
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
13. What effect would
returnable nickle or dime
deposits have on where
containers end up?
A. more cans and bottles go to
a landfill
B. more cans and bottles are
littered
C. more cans and bottles are
recycled
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15. What is it called when
someone sorts through waste
left at the curb to find useful or
valuable items before the
waste is picked up by a truck?
A. mixed waste recycling
B. single stream recycling
C. salvaging
CORRECT: A, C
CORRECT: A, C
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10. What is a material that is
hard, brittle and often
transparent?
12. Which things might you find
in a school waste can?
14. Which thing in a kitchen
garbage can could be
recycled?
16. What kind of metal is used
for beverage cans?
A. glass
B. metal
A. a broken crayon or torn
paper
B. an empty cereal box or a
potato peel
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A. an empty cereal box
B. tennis shoes
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10. A ton of recycled paper
saves 17 trees. How many
trees would be saved if 5 tons
of paper were recycled?
A. aluminum
B. tin
12. Who picks up recyclable
materials from the curb?
14. What is it called when the
recyclables and other waste
are all put in one bag before
they are picked up by a truck?
A. 85 trees
B. 17 trees
C. 170 trees
A. recycling plant managers
B. industrial machinery
mechanics
C. refuse collectors
A. single stream recycling
B. source separated recycling
C. mixed waste recycling
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, C
CORRECT: A, C
16. High Density Polyethylene
is used for plastic milk jugs and
laundry detergent bottles.What
number is it?
A. number 3
B. number 4
C. number 2
CORRECT: A,C
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17. What does it mean to use
less of something for a job or
assignment?
19. Who organizes events for
picking up litter?
21. What does it mean to let
leftover organic matter rot or
decompose?
23. What is needed for
composting to work well?
A. to reduce
B. to recycle
A. recycling coordinators
B. volunteer coordinators
A. to recycle
B. to compost
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17. Polypropylene is used for
yogurt containers, bottle caps,
straws and medicine bottles.
What number is it?
A. number 2
B. number 1
C. number 5
A. a cold spot
B. a warm spot
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19. Which plastics can be
recycled into brooms, brushes,
ice scrapers, rakes or pallets?
A. number 1s
B. number 2s
C. number 5s
21. Which materials on a
recycling conveyor belt can
strong magnets pick out?
A. paper
B. plastic
C. steel cans
CORRECT: B, C
23. Who runs recycling
facilities and keeps track of all
the people, machines and the
jobs they do?
A. refuse and recyclable
material collectors
B. recycling plant managers
C. materials scientists
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: A, C
CORRECT: B,C
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18. Which things can be
reused?
20. Who fixes things that are
broken so they can be used
again instead of thrown away?
22. What do you call something
that is living or comes from
living things?
24. What is waste that people
throw or accidentally drop on
the ground called?
A. tennis shoes, baseballs,
story books
B. cans, bottles, paper
A. refuse haulers
B. repair persons
A. metal
B. organic
A. recyclables
B. litter
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18. Which plastics can be
recycled into laundry detergent
bottles, plastic lumber or
recycling containers?
20. A laptop can run 2 hours on
the energy saved by recycling
one glass bottle. How many
hours could the laptop run if
100 glass bottles were
recycled?
22. Which materials on a
recycling conveyor belt are
usually the only thing left at the
end?
24. What is curbside recycling?
A. number 4s
B. number 5s
C. number 2s
CORRECT: A, C
A. 20 hours
B. 2 hours
C. 200 hours
A. aluminum cans
B. steel cans
C. glass
CORRECT: B, C
A. people box up their
recyclables and mail them
B. people put their recyclables
at the curb to be picked up by a
truck
C. everyone takes their
recyclables to a drop-off center
to be picked up
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
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25. Which things will
decompose in less than six
months if left outside?
27. What is a material that can
be molded into different
shapes?
29. Which things might you find
in a kitchen garbage can?
31. What does it mean to make
new, but similar things from
things that are thrown away
A. cans or bottles
B. food, leaves, grass clippings
A. rocks
B. plastic
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A. an empty shampoo bottle or
a broken comb
B. an empty cereal box or a
potato peel
A. to reduce
B. to recycle
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25. What is it called when all
the recyclables are separate
from the waste but combined
with each other before they are
picked up by a truck?
27. Polyvinyl chloride is used
for waste water pipes and
siding on houses. What
number is it?
29. Which plastics are hard to
recycle because they can give
off chlorine gas when heated?
A. number 1
B. number 3
C. number 2
A. number 2s
B. number 3s
C. number 1s
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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26. What happens during a
litter cleanup?
28. What is a material made
from fibers of plants that are
pressed together?
30. Each person makes about
5 lbs of waste each day. How
much waste would 2 people
make each day?
32. Which thing in a school
waste can could be recycled?
A. salvaging
B. single stream recycling
C. source separated recycling
31. If the deposit on a soda can
is 5 cents, how many soda
cans are needed to earn $1?
A. 10 cans
B. 20 cans
C. 25 cans
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
A. a business hires someone to
pick up litter
B. volunteers join together to
pick up litter
A. metal
B. paper
A. 5 lbs
B. 10 lbs
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A. used kleenex
B. torn paper
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26. Which kind of plastics can
most towns and cities recycle?
28. Polystyrene is used for
foam cups and plates. What
number is it?
A. 3s and 4s
B. 1s and 2s
C. anything with a number
A. number 1
B. number 6
C. number 2
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
30. Which plastics are almost
never accepted for recycling at
curbside programs?
32. Which materials on a
recycling conveyor belt can
spectroscopic scanners pick
out?
A. number 2s
B. number 6s
C. number 1s
A. aluminum cans
B. plastic
C. steel cans
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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33. What does a symbol with 3
arrows bent into a triangle
mean?
35. What does it mean to use
something more than once
before throwing it away?
A. reuse
B. recycle
A. to recycle
B. to reuse
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33. What is a loop of material
that rotates around two pulleys
and that moves objects along?
35. Which thing can only be
made into something different
from what was recycled?
A. a sorting bin
B. a conveyor belt
C. a wheel
A. aluminum cans
B. plastic water bottles
C. cardboard
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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34. What kind of metal is used
for food cans?
A. aluminum
B. steel
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34. Which thing can be made
into exactly the same kind of
thing that was recycled?
A. plastic water bottles
B. aluminum cans
C. colored glass
CORRECT: B, B
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