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Recycling crossword
Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Across
- 2 Metal cylinder worth a nickel deposit in some states
- 3 Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 6 Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
- 9 Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 12 Second verb of the famous three Rs
- 13 Blue container at the curb
Down
- 1 Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 3 Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 4 Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 5 Water container often made of PET
- 7 Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
- 8 Separate items by material
- 10 Light metal of soda cans
- 11 Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
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Show the answer key
- 1 down: SCRAP. Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 2 across: CAN. Metal cylinder worth a nickel deposit in some states
- 3 across: PAPER. Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 3 down: PLASTIC. Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 4 down: DEPOSIT. Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 5 down: BOTTLE. Water container often made of PET
- 6 across: COMPOST. Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
- 7 down: LANDFILL. Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
- 8 down: SORT. Separate items by material
- 9 across: CARDBOARD. Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 10 down: ALUMINUM. Light metal of soda cans
- 11 down: ARROWS. Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
- 12 across: REUSE. Second verb of the famous three Rs
- 13 across: BIN. Blue container at the curb
Across
- 2 Metal cylinder worth a nickel deposit in some states
- 5 Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 13 Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
- 14 Second verb of the famous three Rs
- 15 Water container often made of PET
- 16 Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
Down
- 1 Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 3 Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
- 4 Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 6 Blue container at the curb
- 7 Light metal of soda cans
- 8 Bottles and jars, melted down and made again
- 9 Old rubber ring ground up for playground surfaces
- 10 Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 11 Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 12 Separate items by material
Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
Show the answer key
- 1 down: PAPER. Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 2 across: CAN. Metal cylinder worth a nickel deposit in some states
- 3 down: ARROWS. Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
- 4 down: SCRAP. Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 5 across: CARDBOARD. Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 6 down: BIN. Blue container at the curb
- 7 down: ALUMINUM. Light metal of soda cans
- 8 down: GLASS. Bottles and jars, melted down and made again
- 9 down: TIRE. Old rubber ring ground up for playground surfaces
- 10 down: PLASTIC. Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 11 down: DEPOSIT. Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 12 down: SORT. Separate items by material
- 13 across: LANDFILL. Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
- 14 across: REUSE. Second verb of the famous three Rs
- 15 across: BOTTLE. Water container often made of PET
- 16 across: COMPOST. Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
Across
- 2 Water container often made of PET
- 3 Bottles and jars, melted down and made again
- 5 Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 7 Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 10 Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
- 11 Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 12 Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
Down
- 1 Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 4 Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 6 Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
- 8 Light metal of soda cans
- 9 Separate items by material
Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
Show the answer key
- 1 down: PLASTIC. Material with a number code inside a triangle
- 2 across: BOTTLE. Water container often made of PET
- 3 across: GLASS. Bottles and jars, melted down and made again
- 4 down: DEPOSIT. Refundable nickel or dime on a beverage container
- 5 across: PAPER. Office sheets and newsprint, baled for pulping
- 6 down: ARROWS. Three chasing symbols in the familiar green loop
- 7 across: CARDBOARD. Flatten these boxes before setting them out
- 8 down: ALUMINUM. Light metal of soda cans
- 9 down: SORT. Separate items by material
- 10 across: COMPOST. Dark crumbly stuff made from food scraps and leaves
- 11 across: SCRAP. Leftover metal sold by the pound
- 12 across: LANDFILL. Buried dump you are trying to keep empty
About Recycling
Aluminum is the star performer of the recycling stream: a can melted down and rerolled can be back on a store shelf in a matter of weeks, and remelting it uses a small fraction of the energy needed to smelt new metal from ore. Glass and steel hold up similarly well, while paper fibers shorten each time around and eventually end up in products like cardboard. Sorting matters because one greasy container can spoil a whole bale.
Reach for this in a science or environmental studies class working through waste, materials, and what happens after the truck pulls away.
What is in this crossword
A 17 by 16 crossword with 6 across and 8 down, on the subject of Recycling.
- Grid
- 17 x 16
- Across
- 6
- Down
- 8
- Longest answer
- CARDBOARD (9 letters)