Test your eco-knowledge To the Editors: In the spirit of recycling week (Nov. 10 to Nov. 17) you can test your eco-knowledge. The answers to the following questions can be found on the white board at the bottom of the staircase in Mudd A-level. 1. How many aluminum cans must be recycled to equal the amount of energy it takes to drive five miles? a) 20 2. What is the difference between recycling shredded and whole sheets of paper? a) None 3. How long does it take for a glass bottle to break down in a landfill? 4. Over the course of an average American lifetime how much trash will be left behind? a) 40,000 tons 5. Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job, landfilling the same amount creates six jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates how many jobs? a) 36 6. How many times can paper be recycled? a) Once or twice 7. On average, producing one ton of paper from recycled materials saves how many trees? 8. How many trees are killed every Sunday because newspapers are wasted instead of recycled? a) 100,000 9. How many tons of waste are disposed of daily in Los Angeles? a) 35,000 tons 10. Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil. True or false?
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