Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Pink Panthers Allison, Emily, Carleena, Ashley,
  Meera, Tiffany, and Irene

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Ways to Reduce

• Reducing saves resources
• Replace disposable with reusable
• Donate useful items to charitable groups
• Rent, lend, and borrow instead of buying new
• Participate in your local recycling progams
• Reuse envelopes
• Donate old magazine to hospitals, offices, and
  other waiting rooms

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Reusing
Give your purchases another life!
Survey Information
You can reuse grocery bags and trash bags.
Instead of cups use bottles. Instead of grocery
bags use canvas bags. Reuse bottles for other
drinks again.
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Reusing
Pass on magazines and books to friends. Give
old clothing, and household goods to charitable
organizations. Recharge your batteries.
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Paper

• Landfills are 39 paper
• Our goal is to recycle 50 of all paper
• Recycling paper saves
• Boxes are 50 of all paper recycled
• Only 2 of recycled paper is made into writing
  paper
• Recycling paper is less polluting

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Glass is back

• We throw away 28 billion glass bottles and jars
  each year.
• Recycling glass uses 32 less energy and creates
  20 less air pollution than making it from all
  new material.
• To recycle glass just rinse the container and
  remove the metal rings and recycle. Dont
  recycle broken glass, light bulbs, mirrors and
  plate glass.
• Old glass can be recycled over and over again.
• Green or amber glasscan protect food and
  beverages from light.

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Plastics

• When plastic is recycled it is made into
  different things like detergent bottles, park
  benches, carpet, T-shirts, stuffing for ski
  jackets and other bottles. It can also be made
  into toys and heart valves.
• Plastic milk jugs can be reused for flowerpots.
• Plastics contain as much energy as petroleum and
  natural gas and more energy than other types of
  garbage
• Plastics take 23 of space on a landfill

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Aluminum

• Recycled aluminum may be reused.
• Reusing aluminum saves energy.
• Aluminum scraps can be recovered, recycled, and
  reused endlessly.

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Styrofoam

• When you recycle Styrofoam it gets mixed with
  acetone and turns into molds to make more
  Styrofoam.
• You can use Styrofoam for a lot of things instead
  of recycling it.

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Sources
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.gov/DOR/rre/kids/AlTriu.htm http//www.deq.state.
la.assistance/recycling/home/aluminum.htm http//w
ww/asia-aec.org/whats_aluminum.htm http//autoalu
minum.org.environ.htm http//www.greennature.com/a
rticle559.html http//www.grandrapiclsmn.com http
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on/ENV138/HTM http//www.eia.clue.gov/kids/recycli
ng/solidwaste/plastics.html http//www.leeric.lsu.
edu.energy/rrr/plastics.html
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Thank You!