Earth Day Stationery Quiz - Brecken Murkins | Library

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You are at HQ and you've just finished a delicious bag of Chips. Once finished what "trash bin" are you putting the chip bag in?

Food/waste compost

Recycling

Landfill

On the ground

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You live by the 3 beverage rule and just finished your Lacroix (metal can), Kombucha (glass bottle), and Diet Coke (plastic bottle). What bin are you disposing of these items in?

Any bin works

Recycling the Lacroix and Kombucha but putting the Diet Coke in the landfill bin

Putting all items in the recycling bin

Putting all items in the landfill bin

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The last 3 beverages weren't enough for you. You go and get some coffee, and put it in a Target provided paper cup and swirl in some creamer with a wooden stir stick. Once finished you put the cup and wooden stir stick in which bin?

Recycling

Landfill

Leave it on your desk for when you "cleanup tomorrow" 

Food waste/compost

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It's time for lunch, Jess and Seth adventure out for some food . Seth gets a pizza from the Café while Jess gets a wrap from Dave's. When finished Jess (foam takeout container) and Seth (paper pizza box) should throw their to-go containers and scraps in which bins?

Both should dump their scraps in the food waste/compost bin, Jess should put her foam container in the landfill bin, and Seth should put his paper box in the food/waste compost bin

All items should go in the landfill bin

Both should dump their scraps in the food waste/compost bin, Jess should put her foam container in the recycling, and Seth should put his paper box in the landfill bin

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After lunch you pop in a piece of gum. Once finished which bin are you putting your gum in?

Stick it to the bottom of nearest ledge

Recycling

Landfill

Food waste/compost

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You grab a coffee from Starbucks for a caffeine boost. What do you do with the empty paper cup after?

The cup, lid, and cardboard sleeve can all go in the recycling bin.

The sleeve can go in the recycling bin. Everything else goes in the landfill bin.

All go in landfill bin. 

The  sleeve can go in the recycling bin. Everything else goes in the compost bin.

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Once you get your caffeine boost, you wonder how many Starbucks cups are sold per minute and end up in the landfill? (food for thought, how many cups do you throw away in year..)

None, because everybody does their part to reduce waste by using reusable mugs/bottles.

8,000 cups per minute or about four billion a year

1,000 cups per minute or about 500 million a year

2,000 cups per minute or about one billion a year

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After calculating how many cups end up in the landfill, you calculate how many trees are harvested every year for Starbucks cups? (1 million trees = 20,000 acres of forest)

3.2 million trees (100 sq. miles)

1 million trees (31.25 sq. miles)

500 thousand trees (15.63 sq. miles)

1.6 million trees (50 sq. miles) 

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After you calculating how many trees are harvested every year for Starbucks cups, you wonder why they can’t be recycled or composted. You learn…

You can’t put wet cups in recycling or composting.

The cups have a plastic lining that cannot be recycled and should NOT be composted.

Since the cups have had coffee in them, they must go in the landfill.

It doesn't matter what bin you put it in.

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You feel bad about contributing to landfills. How can you avoid contributing to landfills the next time you visit Starbucks?

All answers are correct

Planting a tree for every cup you throw away

Bring your own personal clean  cup or thermos.

Use for-here cups if you’ll  drink your coffee in the café.

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What are some ways you reduce waste or recycle old products?

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In the US, what percent of disposable water bottles get recycled every year?

83%

12%

37%

61%

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How many tons of textiles end up in US landfills each year?

2.5 million tons (16 lbs per person)

11 million tons (70 lbs per person)

6 million tons (38 lbs per person)

16 million tons (102 lbs per person)

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The average person throws away ___ lbs of waste a day?

3.1

4.9

2.5

1.2

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True or False, recycling a single aluminum can saves enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours?

True

False