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6. What can locals exchange waste for?

  • Bus tickets or cinema tickets
  • Leisure activity coupons or food coupons
  • Food or bus tickets
  • Food or food coupons

7. How many times cheaper is the bus system than an underground?

  • 100x
  • 300x
  • 500x
  • 700x

8. What is the recycling plant made of?

  • Recycled materials
  • Reused materials
  • Sustainably sourced local materials

9. How much have travel times been cut down to using the bus system?

  • By 2/3
  • By 1/3
  • By 1/4
  • By 3/4

10. Who was the architect and mayor?

  • Lewis Manzoni
  • Jamie Lerner
  • Jamie Manzoni
  • Lewis Lerner

11. In recent years the bi-articulated bus system has decreased by how much in the past 4 years?

  • 14 million rides
  • 12 million rides
  • 15 million rides
  • 10 million rides

12. What award did they achieve?

  • UN Healthy Living award
  • UN Environmental award
  • Brazil's Sustainable Management award

13. What do they recycle?

  • Just non-organic waste
  • Organic and non-organic waste
  • Just organic waste

14. Curitiba has the lowest rates of pollution in Brazil

  • True
  • False

15. What is Curitiba's population?

  • 2 million
  • 500 thousand
  • 1 million
  • 3 million

16. The process of recycling costs no more than the old system

  • True
  • False