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The place where we bury rubbish is called?

Landfill site

Incineration

Factories
How many glass bottles and jars do we throw away in the UK every year?

Six thousand

Six million

Six billion
What items can you not place in your glass and metal bin?

Coffee / jam / pickle / sauce jars

Mirrors

Food tins and drinks cans
Where can you take your waste or rubbish to be recycled?

Recycling bank

Piggy bank

Nowhere
Which of the following is the best way to make less waste?

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle
Which of the following is an example of a Raw Material?

Television Set

Oil

Drinks Can
What is the best thing to do with your green waste (i.e. fallen leaves, weeds, grass cuttings from the lawn etc)?

Throw them in the bin

Compost them

Hide them at the top of the garden
What materials make up the largest amount of your homes waste?

Textiles

Paper and Cardboard

Glass
To reduce waste what is the best container to take your drinks to school in?

Reusable flask

Drinks carton

Drinks can
Recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to light a 60 watt lightbulb for how many hours

1 hour

3 hours

6 hours
What happens when you recycle something?

It gets put into a landfill site

It gets turned into something new that can be used again

It is burnt in an incinerator
What happens to recycled glass?

It is made into new bottles and jars

It is turned back to sand

It is carefully buried under the ground
What do you do with clothes that you do not need anymore?

Throw them away

Take them to a charity shop or recycling centre

Leave them in your wardrobe
Which of the following items can you not compost?

Fruit and vegetable scraps

Meat or dairy waste

Garden waste
Which country in Europe sends the least amount of waste to landfill?

Portugal

Netherlands

Great Britain