Do you recognise this image? If so, do you know what it actually means? I didn’t….
I’m not exactly evangelical about recycling, although I don’t mind doing it, but this quiz from the BBC is rather hard. It asks you to look at a variety of different recycling symbols and logos and try and guess their exact meanings. There’s obviously too many, as i got most of them wrong!
We’ve recycled our bottles and stuff for years, simply because it was easy to, and it just seemed wasteful to throw them in the bin. It’s only been the last couple of years in the UK though, where it’s become more compulsory, and now we have to recycle paper, cardboard, tins and bottles at the kerbside. We’ve also got a compost bin which is handy. The ludicrous thing is though, that the system changes from town to town, county to county and by all accounts, a lot of what we save for recycling either goes for landfill, or is shipped halfway round the world for recycling-hardly environmentally friendly! Of course, the next idea is to put taxes up, as that will save the planet…..
Anyway, have a go at the quiz if you want, and see if you can beat this:
Shouldn’t be hard!
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I got 5 out of 10 – do I get a prize for beating you
Well, I scored three out of 10 but I’m living on a different continent with (mostly) different symbols.
(Same symbols for milk bottles, though.)
And, besides, I was distracted because the BBC consistently misspells “curb” as “kerb.”
I didn’t do so well either…but I am also claiming it’s cause I live somewhere else…smile
Sorry Curmudgeon? The BBC does not misspell anything……
Geographical excuses accepted, but even that makes the situation more ridiculous – why can’t we have the same symbols?
Funnily enough I did this one yesterday, and amazingly, got 5/10.
My guess was right