Recycling
By Kirsten & Georgia
What is recycling?
- Recycling is a way of reusing items that would otherwise be discarded.
- Using again
- To covert into reusable materials.
Who invented recycling?
- It's impossible to locate the first person that ever recycled unless we had a time machine to go back in time.
- Paper recycling was invented in 1690 by the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia.
When did people start recycling?
- Recycling is nothing new, people have been doing it for thousands of years.
- A long time ago
How do you recycle?
- Find ways of recycling different materials, many materials can be recycled such as paper, plastic, metal and grass. Other items such as furniture and vehicles can also be recycled.
- Buy products that can be recycled such as glass, jars and tin cans.
Why do we recycle?
- Mostly because its the right thing to do.
- If we didn't recycle most of the trees would be gone due to paper
- So we don't waste