Sizing Up Solid Waste
Your First Name
1.
Nature recycles a glass bottle in:
100 years
500 years
1000 years
1 million years
2.
For every $11 spent on groceries, about $______ is/are spent on packaging.
$1
$2
$3
$4
3.
Nearly half of the people in Michigan don’t know where the garbage that is hauled from their household is taken.
true
false
4.
The production of a ton of paper from recycled waste saves ______ trees.
5 trees
17 trees
28 trees
35 trees
5.
It is estimated that _______% of the country’s landfills will be closed by 1993.
45 percent
10 percent
25 percent
5 percent
6.
In 1988, about 17% of household solid waste was made up of :
glass
plastics
food
magazines/newspapers
7.
The use of plastic beverage containers in the U.S. increased from 15 million in 1967 to _______ in 1985.
50 million
200 million
4.5 billion
12.5 billion
8.
In 1987, _______ million tons of waste paper were exported from the United States.
4
9
2
6
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