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Question
Categorize the materials of the following products into ‘can be recycled’ and ‘cannot be recycled’.
Telephone instruments, plastic toys, cooker handles, carry bags, ball point pens, plastic bowls, plastic covering on electrical wires, plastic chairs, electrical switches.
Solution
| Cannot be recycled | Can be recycled |
| Telephone instruments | Plastic toys |
| Cooker handles | Plastic chairs |
| Electrical switches | Carry bags |
| Plastic covering on electrical wires | |
| Ball point pens | |
| Plastic bowls |
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