Waste – Upper Elementary
1. Who keeps conveyor belts and other machinery in a recycling center running?
A. industrial machinery mechanics
B. refuse and recyclable material collectors
C. materials scientists
D. recycling plant managers
2. Who picks up recyclable materials from the curb?
A. refuse and recyclable material collectors
B. recycling plant managers
C. industrial machinery mechanics
D. materials scientists
3. Who runs recycling facilities and keeps track of all the people, machines and the jobs they do?
A. recycling plant managers
B. materials scientists
C. refuse and recyclable material collectors
D. industrial machinery mechanics
4. Who searches for new things to do with materials collected for recycling?
A. materials scientists
B. industrial machinery mechanics
C. recycling plant managers
D. refuse and recyclable material collectors
5. What effect would returnable nickle or dime deposits have on where containers end up?
A. more cans and bottles are recycled
B. more cans and bottles go to a landfill
C. more cans and bottles are littered
D. more cans and bottles end up in a river
6. What is curbside recycling?
A. people put their recyclables at the curb to be picked up by a truck
B. everyone takes their recyclables to a drop-off center to be picked up
C. people box up their recyclables and mail them
D. someone goes door to door to ask if people have recyclables to donate
7. Which of these methods of collecting recyclables is easiest for people to participate in?
A. curbside, mixed waste
B. curbside, single stream recycling
C. drop-off center, sorted recyclables
D. drop-off center, single stream recycling
8. 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. mixed waste recycling
B. single stream recycling
C. source separated recycling
D. salvaging
9. 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?
A. single stream recycling
B. source separated recycling
C. salvaging
D. mixed waste recycling
10. 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
D. single stream recycling
11. 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. salvaging
B. mixed waste recycling
C. single stream recycling
D. source separated recycling
12. Which kind of plastics can most towns and cities recycle?
A. 1s and 2s
B. anything with a number
C. 3s and 4s
D. 5s, 6s and 7s
13. Polyethylene Terephthalate is used for plastic soda and water bottles. What number is it?
A. number 1
B. number 2
C. number 3
D. number 5
14. High Density Polyethylene is used for plastic milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles.What number is it?
A. number 2
B. number 3
C. number 4
D. number 6
15. Polyvinyl chloride is used for waste water pipes and siding on houses. What number is it?
A. number 3
B. number 2
C. number 1
D. number 6
16. 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
D. number 5
17. Polypropylene is used for yogurt containers, bottle caps, straws and medicine bottles. What number is it?
A. number 5
B. number 2
C. number 1
D. number 3
18. Polystyrene is used for foam cups and plates. What number is it?
A. number 6
B. number 2
C. number 1
D. number 4
19. Which plastics can be recycled into fleece, tote bags, carpeting or new containers?
A. number 1s
B. number 2s
C. number 3s
D. number 6s
20. Which plastics can be recycled into laundry detergent bottles, plastic lumber or recycling containers?
A. number 2s
B. number 4s
C. number 5s
D. number 6s
21. Which plastics are hard to recycle because they can give off chlorine gas when heated?
A. number 3s
B. number 1s
C. number 2s
D. number 6s
22. Which plastics can be recycled into trash can liners?
A. number 4s
B. number 1s
C. number 6s
D. number 3s
23. Which plastics can be recycled into brooms, brushes, ice scrapers, rakes or pallets?
A. number 5s
B. number 1s
C. number 2s
D. number 6s
24. Which plastics are almost never accepted for recycling at curbside programs?
A. number 6s
B. number 1s
C. number 2s
D. number 4s
25. 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?
A. 50 hours
B. 21 hours
C. 25 hours
D. 3 hours
26. 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?
A. 200 hours
B. 20 hours
C. 2 hours
D. 100 hours
27. If the deposit on a soda can is 5 cents, how many soda cans are needed to earn $1?
A. 20 cans
B. 25 cans
C. 10 cans
D. 50 cans
28. A ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees. How many trees would be saved if 5 tons of paper were recycled?
A. 85 trees
B. 17 trees
C. 170 trees
D. 35 trees
29. Which materials on a recycling conveyor belt can strong magnets pick out?
A. steel cans
B. paper
C. plastic
D. aluminum cans
30. Which materials on a recycling conveyor belt can spectroscopic scanners pick out?
A. plastic
B. steel cans
C. aluminum cans
D. glass
31. Which materials on a recycling conveyor belt can magnetic fields pick out?
A. aluminum cans
B. plastic
C. paper
D. glass
32. Which materials on a recycling conveyor belt are usually the only thing left at the end?
A. glass
B. aluminum cans
C. steel cans
D. paper
33. What is a loop of material that rotates around two pulleys and that moves objects along?
A. a conveyor belt
B. a wheel
C. a sorting bin
D. a divertor
34. Which thing can be made into exactly the same kind of thing that was recycled?
A. aluminum cans
B. plastic water bottles
C. different colored glass bottles
D. milk jugs
35. Which thing can only be made into something different from what was recycled?
A. plastic water bottles
B. aluminum cans
C. cardboard
D. steel cans
Correct Answer - A