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Plastic Waste Management

Assignment- Week 8
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 15 Total mark: 15 X 1 = 15
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QUESTION 1:
In waste management hierarchy which is the most preferred option?
a. Recycling
b. Re-use
c. Source reduction
d. Resource recovery
Correct Answer: c

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QUESTION 2:
Which of the following areas is Unilever working on, to achieve its goal of moving towards a
circular economy?

a. Rethinking how to design their products

b. Working with suppliers

c. Following a linear approach of take, make & dispose

d. Exploring solutions to price fluctuations in the material market

Correct Answer: a

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QUESTION 3:
Which of the following statements is incorrect?

a. In circular economy, the value of the material is lost, because they are discarded after
being used once.

b. In a circular economy, materials constantly flow around a ‘closed loop’ system

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c. Circular economy means keeping the value of products in the economy, without
leakage into the natural environment

d. Circular Economy is restorative and regenerative by design

Correct Answer: a
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QUESTION 4:
Which is/are the technical strategy/strategies for the recovery and recycling of PSW?
a. Ensuring material applicability in manufacturing processes

b. Education of the households/community on the relevance of informal waste collectors in

the supply-chain

c. Formation of polymer recycling stream end markets.

d. All of the above

Correct Answer: a
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QUESTION 5:
What is the importance of circular economy?
a. Position the world to better address emerging resource security/scarcity issues in the
future.
b. Help reduce the environmental impacts of our production and consumption in the world.
c. Reduce waste.
d. All of the above
Correct Answer: d

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QUESTION 6:
Which of the following is a consortium of approximately 60 European companies, organizations
and associations across the entire value chain of flexible packaging?

a. Plastics Europe

b. CEFLEX

c. European Plastics Distributors Association (EPDA)

d. The Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME)

Correct Answer: b

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QUESTION 7:
According to British plastic federation (2016), what is the recycling rate of consumer plastic
drinking bottle?
a. 27%
b. 47%
c. 74%
d. 70%

Correct Answer: c

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QUESTION 8:
Which of the following is an interim goal set by Ontario to mark their progress and keep on
track with their strategy to achieve a circular economy?

a) 25% diversion rate by 2020

b) 30% diversion rate by 2025

c) 50% diversion rate by 2040

d) 80% diversion rate by 2050

Correct Answer: d

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QUESTION 9:
Waste-Free Ontario, 2016 enacts which of the following acts:

1) The Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016

2) Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 2016

3) The Waste Diversion Transition Act, 2016

a. 1&2
b. 1&3
c. 2&3
d. 1, 2 & 3

Correct Answer: b

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QUESTION 10:
The Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs) are?

a. Rewards given to the consumers for complying with the waste management rules

b. Certificates of evidence of packaging waste recovered, reprocessed or exported

c. Bar code stickers attached to products to identify each type of plastic

d. Plastic notes recovered from waste recycling cycle

Correct Answer: b

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QUESTION 11:
The Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) system was designed to help the UK achieve recycling
targets set by the government.
a. True
b. False
Correct Answer: a

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QUESTION 12:
The goal to achieve circular economy in Ontario is to attain zero waste Ontario and zero
greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a

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QUESTION 13:
Plastic circular economy delivers a more competitive economy and drives great resource
productivity.
a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a

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QUESTION 14:
Plastics have a negative impact on a range of circularity levers across product life cycles,
including: Materials efficiency, Energy efficiency, CO2 reduction, Recyclability, Durability,
Biodegradability.
a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: b

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QUESTION 15:
To ensure landfills are well planned and managed to minimize their need to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions is an action proposed towards Waste free Ontario.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a

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