Test Your Recycling Knowledge! Take This Quiz
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 183
Think you know how to recycle, reuse and reduce? Take this quiz and find out exactly how much you know about conservation and recycling!
Questions and Answers
- 1.Recycling saves enough energy each year to provide heat and light for ______ Illinois homes.
- A.
400,000
- B.
250,000
- C.
1 million
- D.
560,000
- 2.Each person creates about ____ pounds of waste everyday.
- A.
5.8
- B.
10.1
- C.
2.5
- D.
4.7
- E.
Source: RecyclingFacts.org
- 3.Approximately what percent of trash thrown away today could be recycled?
- A.
20
- B.
23
- C.
40
- D.
60
- 4.How long does glass take to decompose in a landfill?
- A.
25 years
- B.
400 years
- C.
2,500 years
- D.
4,000 years
- 5.Recycling 1 ton of paper saves ____ mature trees.
- A.
10
- B.
12
- C.
3
- D.
17
- 6.36 billion aluminum cans put in landfills last year had a scrap value of more than $_____million.
- A.
600
- B.
300
- C.
100
- D.
50
- 7.In a lifetime, the average American will throw away ____ times his/her adult weight in garbage.
- A.
30
- B.
5
- C.
600
- D.
300
- 8.Since the beginning of the Blue Cart program, Chicagoans have recycled _____ percent of waste in the new receptacles.
- A.
13.79
- B.
14.51
- C.
5.2
- D.
1.3
- 9.How many plastic bottles do Americans use every hour?
- A.
1.3 million
- B.
300 million
- C.
2.5 million
- D.
60 million
- 10.The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for ___ hours.
- A.
Two
- B.
Three
- C.
Four
- D.
Five
This quiz is meant to test your knowledge of recycling dos and don'ts on Wesleyan's campus. Good luck!
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