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Question 12

Used PET drinks bottles are sorted, washed and shredded into flakes. The flakes are processed to make fibres for fleece clothing.

Why is less of a limited resource used when the fleece fibres are made in this way?

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A

The recycled PET replaces new PET that would have been made using crude oil.

B

Sorting the bottles reduces the amount of PET needed in each fleece fibre.

C

The PET bottles are used again without being made into a different product.

D

Less bottle waste is sent to landfill when the PET is made into fleece fibres.

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10.2 Life cycle assessment and recycling Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Chemistry
  3. /10.2 Life cycle assessment and recycling

99 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Chemistry 10.2 Life cycle assessment and recycling, covering 10.2.1 Life cycle assessment and 10.2.2 Ways of reducing the use of resources. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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