Waste Reduction LEAD Event November 2021

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Sustaining the Woods student club invites you to watch two inspiring TED talks about waste reduction. To earn a LEAD point, complete the Google Form below after watching “Microplastics are Everywhere” (https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_dudas_microplastics_are_everywhere_but_we_can_do_something_about_them) by Sarah Dudas and “To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift” (https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_dent_to_eliminate_waste_we_need_to_rediscover_thrift#t-1595) by Andrew Dent. LEAD point can be earned anytime during the month of November.

TED talk 1: Out of the 8,300 million metric tons of plastics that humans have made since the beginning of plastic production in the 1950s, what percentage has been recycled? *

30%

21%

15%

TED talk 1: Why are microplastics so dangerous to the ecosystem and us? *

TED talk 1: Sarah and her team did a study of microplastics in food. What was the most common type of microplastic that they found? *

TED talk 1: We all have heard of the three R's (Recycle, Reduce, Reuse), but Sarah says we need to update this list to include what other three 'R' words? *

TED talk 2: When we throw something away, it's isn't really away. Instead it would likely go into a landfill where toxins from the trash leeches into the soil and groundwater. How much trash do we throw into landfills every year (when this video was released in 2017)? *

1.3 tons

1.3 thousand tons

1.3 million tons

1.3 billion tons

TED talk 2: Fill in the blanks: The industry that does really well at recycling their products is the _______________ industry, and the industry that does very poorly at at recycling or reusing their products is the _______________ industry. *

TED talk 2: Nature does a great job at thrifting (nothing gets wasted). Name a material mentioned in the video that nature provides us that we can use to thrift. *

Nanocellulose

Spider Silk

Enzymes

All of the above

TED talk 2: Fill in the blanks: If in the future, you are ever in a position where you can design (or rethink the design of) a product or material, keep in mind the end-of-life of that product/material. Design in the ability for it to be _________________________. *

easily biodegradable creating no harm to soil/wildlife

repurposed without costly manipulations

taken apart for recycling

any of the above are valid answers

Student Name *

Student Barcode Number (1600000...) *

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