Our rubbish, or waste, can be a threat to the environment. Recycling our waste is one way that we can help to protect the environment. Recycling is converting waste into reusable material. An example is when a product is melted so that the material can be used to make new products. Most products can be recycled...although not all of them. You are probably familiar with recycling household waste such as bottles, cans and paper.

Grades 3, 4 and 5 - Science - Elementary School - Recycling

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10 Questions

1. Where does our non-recycled rubbish go?

Into spaceRecycling plantLandfill or incineratedInto the sea

2. How would you dispose of a book you no longer needed?

Give it to someone else to readThrow it in the binRecycle itBurn it

3. Which material needs separating into different colors before recycling?

SteelPaperGlassPlastic

4. On average how much waste does a person in the UK throw away each year?

Thousand times own body weightTen times own body weightHundred times own body weightOwn body weight

5. Which of these is a problem caused by throwing rubbish away?

Lots of energy is needed to make items from raw materialsWe will eventually run out of raw materialsAll of theseWaste pollutes rivers and other environments

6. Which recycle bin would you put a drinks can in?

AluminumPlasticPaperGlass

7. Which materials are difficult to recycle?

PlasticsPapersMetalsTextiles

8. Why should batteries not go to a landfill?

They could explodeThey could be rechargedThey can leak chemicalsThey could be reused

9. Which is NOT one of the 3 Rs?

RecycleReuseRemodelReduce

10. Which of these is NOT an environmentally-friendly method of disposing of potato peelings?

Feed to pigsPut in rubbish binPut on gardenPut in compost bin