, 20 October 2022
We’re celebrating recycling in this quiz! Can you salvage a passing score, or will you end up in the garbage?
PET, HDPE and PVC are all types of recyclable plastic. PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, HDPE is high-density polyethylene and PVC is polyvinyl chloride.
Reducing the amount of waste you use is the best choice for the environment. If you can’t avoid it, you should try to reuse your waste. If that’s not an option, you should recycle what’s left.
You can recycle about 20 kilograms of aluminium with the energy it takes to mine and refine 1 kilogram of new aluminium.
False! Asphalt is one of the most recycled materials in the world, and a lot of new roads in Australia use a mixture of new and recycled materials.
It’s expensive to launch things into space, so astronauts recycle as much as they can, including drinking water!
Congratulations! You are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Better brush up before the next quiz!
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