Planet Ark's Recycle Right Quiz 2017

All participants can go into the draw to win one of ten Plastic Free Starter Kits worth $84 thanks to Biome Eco Stores. The Kit includes a glass KeepCup, a five pack of Onya bags, a stainless steel straw and straw cleaner, a beeswax HoneyBee food wrap, 50g of soapberries, and a LOQI shopping bag.

There are 9 questions, good luck.

This year’s theme for National Recycling Week is ‘What Goes Around: Why Buying Recycled Matters’ which is about encouraging a circular economy. What is a circular economy?

A. A make-use-return-recycle economy

 

In a circular economy, products such as printer cartridges are made, used, returned then recycled into new products like TonerPave roads and new cartridges. Buying products made from recycled materials encourages a circular economy.

 

96% of the materials found in a mobile phone are recovered when recycled by MobileMuster. Phones are full of non-renewable resources that can be turned into new products. Take them out of your top drawer, recycle them through MobileMuster and get those materials back into circulation!

 

Although Australians recycle 3 in every 5 sheets of paper - we need to close the recycling loop by buying it back.  
Planet Ark's 100% Australian Recycled Paper is the most environmentally responsible paper on the market being FSC certified, carbon neutral and also does not compromise on quality.

 

 

Plastic bags pose a big problem to conventional Material Recovery Facilities. Not only do they interfere with the sorting process but any potentially recyclable materials within the bags cannot be recycled either.

 

Try using a box to contain your recyclables.

 

Planet Ark's partnership with the participating manufacturers Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Konica Minolta and Kyocera, and resource recovery partner, Close the Loop, has recycled over 36 million cartridges in its 14 years of operation. Around 100 printer cartridges go into making a single tiered eWood Garden Bed. Recycled cartridges can be made into pens, road surfaces like TonerPave and TonerSeal and even new printer cartridges!

A. If every Australian household used Planet Ark endorsed Naturale 100% Recycled Toilet Tissue in just one bathroom, we would save 55,000 tonnes of paper- enough to fill 100 Olympic swimming pools!

 

Tyre Stewardship Australia supports research and development into new uses for recycled tyres. Look for the TSA sticker in-store at tyre retailers for an accredited business.

 

Most councils accept aluminium foil in your general recycling bin. You just need to scrunch it in to a ball – about the size of a golf ball or larger - so that it can be sorted correctly by the recycling machines. 

 

The plastic and aluminium combination can be recycled into a host of products, such as roofing tiles. The paperboard can be recycled into cardboard.