NPTEL Plastic Waste Management Week 8 Assignment Answers 2025
1. Which of the following statements is false?
a. In a circular economy, materials constantly flow around a ‘closed loop’ system
b. Circular economy means keeping the value of products in the economy, without leakage into the natural environment
c. In circular economy, the value of the material is lost, because they are discarded after being used once.
d. Circular Economy is restorative and regenerative by design
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2. Which of the following is not an objective of circular economy?
a. Transition to renewable energy sources
b. Building economic, natural and social capital
c. Creating demand for virgin raw materials from consumption of finite resources
d. Redefining growth and focus on positive society-wide benefits
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3. Which of the following areas is Unilever working on, to achieve its goal of moving towards a
circular economy?
a. Rethinking how to design their products
b. Working with suppliers
c. Following a linear approach of take, make & dispose
d. Exploring solutions to price fluctuations in the material market
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4. In 2017, Unilever has made a commitment to ensure that 100% of their plastic packaging will be designed to be fully reusable, recyclable or compostable. This target is to be achieved by which
year?
a. 2020
b. 2025
c. 2030
d. 2035
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5. Which of the following is a consortium of approximately 60 European companies, organizations
and associations across the entire value chain of flexible packaging?
a. Plastics Europe
b. European Plastics Distributors Association (EPDA)
C. CEFLEX
d. The Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME) |
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6. Which of the following is a targets) of UK Plastic pact for 2025?
a) 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable
b) 70% of plastic packaging effectively recycled or composted
c) 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging
d) All of the above
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7. The Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs) are?
a. Rewards given to the consumers for complying with the waste management rules
b. Bar code stickers attached to products to identify each type of plastic
c. Plastic notes recovered from waste recycling cycle
d. Certificates of evidence of packaging waste recovered, reprocessed or exported
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8. Waste-Free Ontario, 2016 enacts which of the following acts:
1) The Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016
2) The Waste Diversion Transition Act, 2016
3) Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 2016
a. 1 & 2
b. 1 & 3
c. 2 & 3
d. 1,2 & 3
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9. Which of the following is an interim goal set by Ontario to mark their progress and keep on
track with their strategy to achieve a circular economy?
a) 25% diversion rate by 2020
b) 30% diversion rate by 2025
c) 50% diversion rate by 2040
d) 80% diversion rate by 2050
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10. With respect to Waste Free Ontario Act 2016, which of these acts) establishes full producer
responsibility by making them environmentally accountable and financially responsible for
recovering resources and reducing waste associated with their products and packaging?
a. Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 2016
b. The Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016
c. The Waste Diversion Transition Act, 2016
d. None of the above
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11. A circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design.
a. True
b. False
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12. Plastics are key enablers of a circular economy, directly facilitating the circularity of products
and improving resource efficiency and sustainability along the value chain.
a. True
b. False
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13. Plastic circular economy helps in raising the negative environmental impacts of our production
and consumption in the world.
a. True
b. False
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14. The goal to achieve circular economy in Ontario is to attain zero waste Ontario and zero
greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector.
a. True
b. False
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15. To ensure landfills are well planned and managed to minimize their need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is an action proposed towards Waste free Ontario.
a. True
b. False
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