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Brian Ulrich

Brian Ulrich. 1. If every country consumed and threw away at the rate Americans do, how many planets’ worth of resources would be required to meet the demand? 3 planets        5 planets      10 planets     

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Brian Ulrich

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  1. Brian Ulrich

  2. 1. If every country consumed and threw away at the rate Americans do, how many planets’ worth of resources would be required to meet the demand? 3 planets       5 planets      10 planets      2. America is home to 4 percent of the world’s children. What percentage of the world’s toys do Americans buy and throw away? 10%             20%             40%            60% 3. How many plastic water bottles do Americans throw away a second? 450        700        1000        2500        4. How much food do Americans throw in the trash every year? 1 million pounds    50 million pounds    1 billion pounds    100 billion pounds 5. How many people could be fed with 5 percent of that wasted food? 100,000 for one year        1 million for one year    4 million for one year    10 million for one year 6. How much of the total waste figured is recycled? Less than 1%              2%                  13%            25%             56%        7. Approximately, how many barrels of Oil are used to make a year’s worth of disposable plastic beverage bottles for Americans? 50,000    barrels        100,000 barrels    1 million barrels    20 million barrels 8. How much plastic trash ends up in the ocean per square mile of ocean? 10,000 pieces     15,000 pieces     30,000 pieces         50,000 pieces     100,000 pieces

  3. Aurora Robson

  4. Chris Jordan

  5. EarthshipBiotecture

  6. Maya Lin

  7. 1. Look at each example presented. Which one made you think more about your personal impact on waste disposal? Explain why. 2. Which example directly shows evidence of the effects of human waste on our environment?

  8. Ponder a new as yet unexplored or unknown way of how trash could be reused, recycled, and/or reduced. Propose this new method of dealing with our refuse to the world in a proposal statement, poem, or paragraph. Submit.

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