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Reduce Reuse

Recycle

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Ways Students Can Save the Earth

Bring lunch to school in a lunch box instead of a paper bag

Jog, walk, or ride bike to save energy

Turn off lights to save energy

Use products that can be used many times

Never litter & pick up garbage you see

Buy products that have been recycled

Recycle plastic, aluminum, and paper

Don’t buy packaged products

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What is Recycling?

Recycling is taking something like paper, aluminum, or plastic, after its

been used, and turning it into the same thing or a new product.

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Facts about Recycling

• In a person’s lifetime they will throw away 600 times their weight in garbage.

• If we recycle the aluminum that Americans throw away we could rebuild the entire U.S. airline fleet every three months

• Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

• The US has 6% of the world’s population, but produces half of the garbage.

• Each ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill, 4,000 kilowatts of energy, and 7,000 gallons of water.

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Why do We Recycle?

1. To save natural resources

2. To prevent environmental problems caused by landfills

3. To save energy

4. To prevent pollution

5. To make jobs and save money

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Some items which Can be Recycled

• Aluminum Cans

• Building Materials

• Cardboard

• Glass

• Paper

• Metal

• Magazines

• Tires

• Plastic Bottles

• Wood

• Paint • Oil

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How Recycling WorksStep 1

• People pull out recyclable items and place them in recycling bins.

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How Recycling WorksStep 2

The people at the recycling plant separate the items.

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How Recycling WorksStep 3

The items are then chopped up and turned into new items.

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Top Five Recycling Nations

• Austria

• Spain

• Switzerland

• Netherlands

• Japan

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Resources• Things which Cannot be Recycled.http://www.wicomicocounty.org/pubwrk/things.htm• Fun Facts about Recyclinghttp://www.resourcefulschools.org/html/facts.html• NIEHS Kids Pagehttp://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/recycle.htm• Time for Kidshttp://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,90783,00.html• Why Reduce, Reuse, and Recyclehttp://www.p2pays.org/recycleguys/main/why.htm• WPWMA Kids Pagehttp://www.wpwma.com/kidsonly.htm• Muncher the Recycling Machinehttp://www.mcswmd.org/kids/muncher.html• Estonian Union of Sustainable Developmenthttp://www.esal.ee/doc/whatkids.htm