Across
- 4. Food-soiled paper products
- 7. Protect from harm
- 12. Living things that can move around to find food
- 16. Make dirty or harmful
- 17. Almost half of the food in the US
- 18. Having a great amount of wind
- 19. A place where garbage is hauled and burned
- 21. Estimated age is 4.5 billion years old
- 22. Mixture of gasses that surround the earth
- 23. Clear liquid with no taste or color
- 27. Type of worker that generates 2lbs of paper daily
- 29. A $200 billion industry in the US
- 31. Americans use 85 million tons per year
- 33. Can be used for composting
Down
- 1. To contaminate the environment with man-made waste
- 2. Human beings
- 3. 100% recyclable
- 5. Flower
- 6. 400 planted for every person on earth
- 8. Most have leaves, roots, stems and flowers
- 9. Plastics labeled 4 through 7
- 10. 1 ton of this material saves 46 gallons of oil
- 11. 11.2 million tons get thrown away annually
- 13. Number one most recycled item in the U.S.
- 14. Body of water covering three quarters of earth
- 15. The destruction of earth's trees
- 20. Government agency formed in support of Earth Day
- 24. Turning off lights helps conserve
- 25. Plastics labeled 1 through 3
- 26. Found in 90% of our table salt
- 28. Anything that is burned as a source of energy
- 30. 80 billion are consumed in the US each year
- 32. One of the fastest growing waste streams