Current Issues-recycling

Quiz

Answer the following questions by selecting the correct answer.

Facts on recycling


Do you know that...

* When you buy a canned drink, between 25 % and 30% of the price you pay represents the cost of making the can

* Most people do not know how to distinguish steel cans from aluminium cans.
The only way of knowing the difference is by using a magnet, which attracts the steel cans

* Tin plated steel cans are actually 90% steel and 10% tin.

* Recycling cans saves vast amounts of money and energy. To produce a tonne of
aluminium from scratch requires five tonnes of bauxite and 16,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

* Re-using aluminium requires only one tonne of old cans and just 750 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Furthermore, it reduces air pollution by 95 %.

'The Star April 8 2001'