1. What two things should you keep out of your compost?
2. Why shouldn't we dump our wastes in the ocean?
3. Should we put all our waste in a landfill?
4. In how many weeks is the average aluminum can remelted and back on the supermarket shelves?
5. How much can you pay for packaging when you buy a product?
6. What percentage of trash is made up of discarded packaging wastes?
7. Which requires less energy: producing aluminum cans from recycled aluminum instead of from bauxite ore?
8. How many tons of solid waste does the world currently produced each year?
9. How many pounds of solid waste per person in the United States are put in landfills each year?
10. How many tons of paper that could be recycled does the U.S. throw away each year?