Higher Order thinking questions about the landfill:

Is it true that about 80 percent of the United States paper mills rely on recovered recycled paper?

What is the volume of a compressed plastic bell of trash in centimeters?

Many all steel is made in the United States is made up of what kind of material?

When you recycle refrigerators what should you take out that can also be recycled?

If 20, 000 pounds of steel are recycled a year, what would be the weight of it in Kilograms?

North Carolinians throw out glass each month that would fill up 13 miles worth of tractor trailers lined in to end, How many kilometers would that be?

What time period do you think it takes to create one bailer of trash?

How many yards high would it have to be to save one tree, if you  recycled a stack of newspapers 3 feet high?

Tires can not be decomposed, but how can you recycle them?

The state picked up more than one pound of litter for each of the state's 8.4 million citizens in 2003.  How many pounds of litter would they pick up for your household?

How many kilometers would it be from Boone to Bald Head (because we throw that much trash to fill dumpsters from there to here every 47 days)?

How many kilograms do we recycle, if North Carolinians recycle 68 pounds of material a second?

We throw away 679 pounds of trash a second. How many times is that than what we recycle if we recycle 68 pounds a second?

It is 6,684 feet high on Mount Mitchell and we throw away that amount of trash in just five and a half days.  How many yards high is that trash?

You can run a tv for about three hours on the energy it takes to produce one new aluminum can. Is this true or false?

Aluminum cans  can they create siding for houses, new soda cans, and etc?

How many trees could you save if you didn't use uncoated virgin ( non-recycled) printing and office paper?

Every ton of steel recycled saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, how many kilograms would that be?

120 pound of limestone converted into kilograms would be?

A tractor trailer hold 14 and 1/2 tons of trash, how tall is that trash in yards?