9 Things You Never Knew About Recycling Quiz

  1. How much energy can you save by recycling one aluminum can?
    1. One aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours
    2. One aluminum can doesn't save energy
    3. An aluminum can can run a tv for 24 hours
  2. How long will an aluminum can still be an aluminum can if it's thrown away?
    1. A can will still be a can forever!!!!
    2. A can will decompose in a couple of weeks
    3. A can takes 500 years to decompose
  3. How many trees have to be cut down in order to produce each week's Sunday newspaper?
    1. We cut down trees??
    2. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, only about 100 trees must be cut down.
    3. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
  4. True or False? If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
    1. True
    2. False
  5. How many sea creatures are killed because plasic bags and other garbage is throuwn into the ocean?
    1. 1,000,000 sea creatures are killed every year because of garbage
    2. 5,000,000 sea creatures are killed every year becasue of garbage
    3. 1,000 sea creatures are killed every year because of garbage
  6. How many plastic bottles do Americans use in an hour?
    1. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour.
    2. Americans use less than 2,000 plastic bottles every hour
    3. Americans use more than 1 billion plastic bottles every hour
  7. How many Hershey Kisses are wrapped each day, and how many square miles of aluminum foil do they use?
      1. More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using more than 100 square miles of aluminum foil
      2. More than 65,873,675 Hershey Kisses are wrapped every day, using more than 356 sqaure miles of aluminum foil
      3. More than 40,000 Hershey Kisses are wrapped every day, using two square miles of aluminum foil
  8. Rainforests are being cut down at how many acres per minute?
      1. Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
      2. The above
      3. Rainforests are being cut down at a rate of 2 acres per minute!
  9. Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
    1. True
    2. False

 

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