Recycling & Sustainability Quiz

Test your recycling and sustainability knowledge, try and complete our multiple choice quiz. You will be shown any questions you get wrong. There are 10 questions and all answers can be found on this website. Good luck.

Auckland Council zero waste target *
Auckland Council wants to progressively achieve zero waste status by when?

2021

2019

2040

2030

 

Cost of landfill waste is increasing *
Recent legislation has introduced a landfill waste levy and this cost will be passed down to waste producers - i.e. Auckland businesses. What is the levy per tonne of landfill waste?

$3/tonne

$7/tonne

$10/tonne

$12/tonne

 

Source-separated collection system *
For a recycling company, what is the main advantage of receiving resources from a source-separated collection system?

Resources never arrive late at the sorting depot.

Resources are quicker and easier to sort.

Resources are cleaner and safer to handle.

Resources can be reliably reprocessed, in NZ and overseas, creating real and credible recycling benefits for everyone.

 

Auckland landfill waste paper tonnage *
How many tonnes of waste paper is estimated to be going to landfill in Auckland every year.

1,000

10,000

20,000

30,000 plus

 

Savings estimated for Auckland businesses *
What is the estimated annual savings that Auckland businesses could make if the paper and cardboard still being sent to landfills was recycled?

$1 million

$4.5 million

$6.8 million

$9 million

 

Lifecycles for recycled paper *
Typically, how many times can the same paper pieces be recycled before the fibres become too short for complete binding?

3 to 5

5 to 7

7 to 9

9 to 11

 

Cardboard colour difference *
Why is cardboard brown, compared to the bright white found in paper?

Cardboard picks up dirt in its use and this makes recyled cardboard brown.

The bleaches used for making white paper do not have the same effect on cardboard.

Cardboard contains poorer quaility fibres that contain wood chips and resins.

White cardboard would show too many dirty handprints when moving packaged products.

 

Polystyrene plates and cutlery *
Which one of these new products cannot be made from recycled polystyrene plates and cutlery?

Light Switches

Supermarket Carrier Bags

Plastic Mouldings

Desk Trays

 

Properties of metal and glass containers *
Steel cans, Tin cans, Aluminium cans, Glass bottles and Glass jars all share one important recycling aspect, what is it?

They are all used as containers.

They are all recycled back into a similar product.

They are all melted down to become something new.

They can all be recycled over and over again without reducing product quality.

 

Tonnes of recyclable solids collected by Reclaim *
How many tonnes of paper, cardboard, glass, steel and aluminium, on average each month, does Reclaim collect for recycling?

6,950

7,100

7,350

7,900