99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recyclesteel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
Question 3: About 4,000
________ have been
identified, of these around 100 can be called common, another
several hundred are relatively common, and the rest are rare.
Question 4: Similarly, the northwestern United States
has difficulty finding markets for recycled newspaper, given the
large number of ________ in the region as well as the proximity to Asian markets.
Question 5: Critics dispute the net economic and environmental benefits of
recycling over its costs, and suggest that proponents of recycling
often make matters worse and suffer from ________.
Question 7: These include
an adequate source of recyclates, a system to extract those
recyclates from the waste stream, a nearby ________ capable of reprocessing the recyclates,
and a potential demand for the recycled products.
Question 9: In a strict sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh
supply of the same material, for example used office ________ to more office paper, or used
foamed polystyrene
to more polystyrene.