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Can You Get This Rhetorical Recycling Quiz Right?

When You Refuse to Reuse, It’s The Earth You Abuse
Priyanka Wadhwani

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The world produces about 2.01 billion metric tons of municipal solid waste every year? Only 13.5% of the total waste is recycled currently! Play this quiz to know more..
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The principle of reducing waste, reusing and recycling resources and products is often called the "3Rs."
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Shocking!! But yes, used pizza boxes are covered in grease which clogs recycling machinery and so they cannot be recycled.
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Every year an estimated 2 million tonnes of WEEE items are discarded by householders and hence WEEE recycling is done.
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Used plastic bottles are broken in small pieces, melted, filtered and then spun into threads, which can be used to make a range of textiles, from swimwear, carpets to running socks.
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Cardboards can be easily recycled requiring only 75% of the energy required to make new cardboard, also it requires 90% less water and 50% less electricity.
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1 single diaper takes 500 long years to decompose, creating methane and other toxic gasses in the process.
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Over centuries, paper has been made from a wide variety of materials — wood pulp, rice, water plants, hemp, panda excrements, cotton, even old clothes!
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It might be amazing for you to know, between 15-17 mature trees can be saved from recycling one ton of paper! Imagine the amount of oxygen it can save!!
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Glass bottles, jars are 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in purity or quality. Over a ton of natural resources are saved for each ton of glass recycled.
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Excellent in their performance, Germany has the best recycling rate in the world at 66.1%. Let’s get inspired and start following the 3R rule.
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Start reusing what we can, reducing the waste, and recycling scrap to make Earth a better place to live!! We hope you enjoyed and learnt a lot with our recycling quiz. Know your scores here...

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