REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

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REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
By Barry
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The 3 Rs

• Reduce Reduce means to cut down on the amount
  of waste being thrown out
• Reuse Reuse means to use things over and over
  again and find new uses for objects e.g. use a
  water bottle over and over for school!
• Recycle Recycle means to re-use the item and
  create something else with it.

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• The average person throws away 726 kilograms of
  waste each year!
• The average family throw away the amount equal to
  half a fully grown elephant each year. Doesnt
  sound that bad? Thats equal to 1 . 5 TONS of
  rubbish each year

How Much?
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Types of waste

• There are 2 types of waste, biodegradable and
  non-biodegradable.
• Biodegradable means its able to rot naturally
  and non-biodegradable cant rot naturally.
• Examples of biodegradable waste include garden
  and kitchen waste like potato skins and banana
  skins. Newspaper is also biodegradable!

Click the picture to learn more
about biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste!
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How to STOP!

• Buy things loose. When youre buying vegetables
  or fruit buy them without the packaging, as this
  produces less waste.
• Make a compost pile and have a brown bin at home
• For more info on how to stop waste visit Kids'
  Stuff About Waste Reduction and Recycling ?

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Plastic Bags

• 1 of plastic bags are recycled.
• A few years ago a study showed that 8 million
  pounds of plastic bags are thrown away each year.
• If you dont recycle them, animals can eat them
  and get stuck in their throat and they will
  suffocate.

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Cans

• Last year 4 billion steel cans were recycled in
  the UK. Don't forget that all steel is 100
  recyclable and can be recycled many times without
  losing any quality.

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Paper

• 1 ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees!
• Reuse paper around the home as scrap paper or
  packing material. Envelopes can also be reused.
• Another good way to reduce paper is to read the
  news online this will stop the massive amount
  of trees being cut down for newspapers alone!

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What our school does!

• In our school we do lots of things to reduce,
  reuse and recycle.
• We recycle old glass lenses, stamps and mobile
  phones, on top of every thing else like paper,
  cardboard and plastic bottles.
• We have a compost bin, a breathing area, a green
  house and every class has its own blue bin.
• We have a garden for birds, rodents, insects and
  more!
• We even have a newly refurbished our P6 vegetable
  garden!!!
• Our school runs 3 bus services, cutting down on
  the amount of CO2 we create!
• We also use our textbooks over and over and over
  again, helping to save trees!
• We have an eco-schools club run by Ann Hegarty
  and we have 2 green flags!

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Will these pictures make you want to
recycle more ???

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Rubbish being CRAMMED into a landfill site.
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Waste being dumped
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A recycling centre?!?!
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What to put in your blue bin.

• Paper
• Cardboard e.g easter egg boxes
• Christmas, birthday and special occasions cards.
• Milk cartons
• Plastic bottles
• Glass bottles
• Newspaper

ltlt For more click here ?
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What NOT to put in your blue bin.

• Hot ashes
• Organic waste
• Animal waste
• Plastic

These are able to go into your brown bin along
with small amounts of newspaper.
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In the wise words of Walt Disney,