Welcome To…Conservation &

Preservation Jeopardy

by Tessah Webb

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Approximately 13 of these ‘colorful’ common household and office items (which are easily refillable) are thrown away every second in the United States. Stuck? Think Epson, Canon, and HP!

What are ink cartridges?

Reducing: 400 If only one in five households switched to

these ‘greener invoices’, the collective impact would save 151 million pounds of paper, avoid filling 8.6 million garbage bags and eliminate 2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

What is electronic bills, statements and payments?

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Reducing: 600

In 2008, 2,480,000 tons of these were bought (instead of their safer and more eco-friendly steel counterparts) and thrown away .

What are plastic bottles and jars?

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Reducing: 800

About 1 million of these are used every minute worldwide, despite readily available cloth alternatives.

What are plastic bags?

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Reducing: 1000

Printing these in the U.S. uses 53 million trees and enough water to fill 81,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools each year. (Not to mention endlessly filling consumer’s mail boxes!)

What are catalogs?

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Reusing: 200

This word, missing from the following phrase, in it’s verb form opposes the common American obsession with single use items. “One man’s junk is another man’s ???”

What is treasure?

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Reusing: 400

This international organization, which raises money in red kettles during the holiday season, is known for its thrift stores (where reusing is profuse!) which support social and charitable work.

What is the Salvation Army?

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Reusing: 600

Klean Kanteen, one of the most popular brands of these,  says that unless it’s incinerated, every piece of plastic that you use will be on this planet for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years.

What are metal/ reusable water bottles?

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Reusing: 800

Americans discard 130 billion of these every year, usually after getting their caffeine fix. This issue that could be completely eradicated if we all utilized the reusable variation.

What are paper cups?

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Reusing: 1000

Made by a women's co-op in the Philippines, these ‘Bazura’ bags are incredibly durable and reuse these non-biodegradable items.

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Recycling: 200

The second most common type of ocean refuse, and known to southerners as ‘sacks’, only about 2% of these end up recycled.

What are plastic bags?

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Recycling: 400

This ‘organic’ variation of recycling involves the decomposition of plant remains, often in your own backyard.

What is composting?

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Recycling: 600

Paper and this remain the most widely-used and recognizable ways to incorporate post-consumer materials into our daily lives.

What is packaging?

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Recycling: 800

Sadly, less than 1 percent of this synthetic material is recycled. Therefore, almost all versions of it are incinerated or end up in a landfill. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

What are plastics?

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Recycling: 1000

With the initials ZW, this philosophy includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society.  The process recommended is one similar to the way that resources are reused in nature.

What is Zero Waste?

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Interdependence: 200

These green giants pump out oxygen, remove pollution from the air, provide shelter to wildlife, slow storm water runoff, prevent soil erosion, and reduce noise. 

What are trees?

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Interdependence: 400

The subgroup of genus and a key word in the conservation debate, 137 of these are lost every day to rainforest deforestation, equating to roughly 50,000 per year.

What are species?

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Life revolves around this title ‘character’ in the beautifully illustrated children’s book on rainforest conservation and species interdependence by Lynne Cherry.

What is The Great Kapok Tree?

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Interdependence: 600

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If you’re wondering why you should care about tree preservation worldwide, chew on this: 25 percent of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from flora that come from this rainforest. Furthermore, less than one percent of it’s tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

What is the Amazon?

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Interdependence: 800

Often abbreviated to CCD, this mysterious phenomenon, which might be related to pesticides, is killing off honeybees (the great pollinators upon which most of our food supply depends) in droves.

What is Colony Collapse Disorder?

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Interdependence: 1000

Human Impact: 200

In this classic children’s book about conservation Dr. Seuss tells the tale of the Once-ler destroying the Truffala trees, and in turn, many indigenous species like the Swomee Swans.

What is The Lorax?

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During the past 35 years, the amount of waste each person creates has almost doubled from 2.7 to 4.4 pounds per day. The most effective way to stop this trend is one of the ‘Three R’s.”

What is reduce?

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Human Impact: 400

But, with perseverance and a kind heart, humans can impact the environment positively too! In this French masterpiece, Jean Giono, demonstrates just this through a humble shepherd in the foothills of the Alps.

What is The Man Who Planted Trees?

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Human Impact: 600

Shown here, this species has the unfortunate status of annually suffering the largest (and most brutal- involving skinning alive) slaughter of any marine mammal species on the planet.

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Human Impact: 800

A 2006 report from The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization found that this sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the planes, trains and automobiles on the planet.

What is the livestock sector.

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Human Impact: 1000