Module 1 quiz

Five questions on The Drawer Problem. It’s optional, it doesn’t affect your certificate, and you can retake it as many times as you like. Every answer comes straight out of the lessons.

1. Lesson 1 argues that "away" is not a place. In its terms, what is an old laptop sitting in a drawer?

Household waste that belongs in the general rubbish binAn object with no value left once it stops switching onA box of refined metals that took enormous energy to pull out of the groundA material that breaks down safely once it reaches landfill

2. According to the US EPA figures in Lesson 2, recovery from every one million mobile phones recycled yields roughly how much gold?

About 772 lbsAbout 75 lbsAbout 35,000 lbsAbout 33 lbs

3. The world generated 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022. What share of it was formally collected and recycled?

82%62%Just over half22.3%

4. Lesson 4 gives four reasons e-waste is growing faster than the population. Which set is it?

Shorter replacement cycles, harder repair, replacing being cheaper than repairing, and more devices per personPeople becoming more careless, worse recycling habits, and weaker environmental educationDevices physically breaking more often than they did twenty years agoRecycling facilities closing down faster than new ones open

5. What does Lesson 1 say the years a device spends in a drawer actually cost?

The metals inside decay and can no longer be recoveredNothing — a stored device is preserved exactly as it wasThe materials survive, but the working device does notThe device becomes hazardous and must be handled as toxic waste

0 of 5 answered. Unanswered questions are marked wrong, and you can retake this as many times as you like.

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