Consumers are deeply concerned about

Answer choices

1. A

   Helps Explain3% picked this

   Many factories are set up to accept and make economical use of recycled glass, whereas there are few factories that make

   The reason glass is recycled more than plastic is that there is more infrastructure already set up for glass recycling.

   3%
2. B

   Helps Explain4% picked this

   Many plastic products are incompatible and cannot be recycled together, whereas most containers made of

   The reason glass is recycled more than plastic is that it's less complicated to recycle glass (you can throw most different types of glass together, whereas plastic would have to be carefully sorted since many types can't be recycled together.)

   4%
3. C

   Correct78% picked this

   The manufacture of new plastic depletes oil reserves, whereas the manufacture of new glass

   Why this is right

   The reason glass is recycled more than plastic is that making new glass is more environmentally friendly than making new plastic? If new plastic depletes oil reserves, whereas new glass uses renewable resources, then we have even more reason to recycle plastic. So this answer either does nothing to explain why plastic is recycled less often than glass (since it deals with manufacturing new plastic/glass, not recycling them), or we could say this answer actually deepens the paradox by adding to the background (not only do consumers want more plastic recycling, the environment also wants more plastic recycling).

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   78%
4. D

   Helps Explain6% picked this

   Unlike glass, which can be heated to thousands of degrees during the recycling process to burn off contaminants, recycled plastic cannot be

   The reason glass is recycled more than plastic is that it's easier to decontaminate used glass than it is to decontaminate used plastic.

   6%
5. E

   Helps Explain9% picked this

   Plastic polymers tend to break down during the recycling process and weaken the resulting product, whereas glass

   The reason glass is recycled more than plastic is that stuff made from recycled glass is still just as strong as new glass, whereas stuff made from recycled plastic is structurally weaker than new plastic.

   9%