Why Are Resources Being Protected?

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Across
  1. 5. The principal source of recycled beverage containers.
  2. 6. Recycled materials that are also used in such industrial applications as recovered glass in roadway asphalt.
  3. 9. _____ is the continent that will phase the sale of new gasoline powered cars.
  4. 11. What country introduced an emission system to the 1990 Clean Air Act?
  5. 12. One way to handle pollution is to ____ the capacity of the environment to accept pollution discharges.
Down
  1. 1. ____ is the separation, collection, processing, and marketing, and reuse of unwanted material.
  2. 2. _____ is one of the four states listed where coal is the leading source of electricty.
  3. 3. Carmakers modified engines so that they operate on____ instead of leaded gasoline.
  4. 4. What is the world's leading manufacturing country that also accounts for thirty seven percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions?
  5. 7. Wet ___ are installed to wash particulates from the gas before it is released in the atmosphere.
  6. 8. ___bottles weigh less today than a generation ago.
  7. 10. Pollution due to motor vehicles declined in 2020 because drivers drove less during the _____ pandemic lockdown.