Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste A. an empty cereal box B. tennis shoes Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste A. an empty shampoo bottle or a broken comb B. an empty cereal box or a potato peel A. to reduce B. to recycle Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste A. used kleenex B. torn paper Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste Grades K-2 Waste 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 Grades 3-5 Waste Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Grades K-2 Waste 34. What kind of metal is used for food cans? A. aluminum B. steel Grades 3-5 Waste 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 Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Waste Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST