Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Saving the Planet
What are the three "R"s?
"R"educe
Reduce the amount of products you buy and the amount of things the throw away
"R"euse
If you use something and it doesn't need to be thrown away, reuse it. For example your old shirt that doesn't fit you anymore, don't throw it away, give it to a younger relative
"R"ecyle
Old newspapers, plastic bottles, metal cans, any of that you can recycle and it will be made into something else.
The three "R"s can save the planet
How can they?
Reducing the amount of stuff we buy and throw away can save our resources and help keep them around for a long time. Every year each person in the United States uses about 749 pounds of paper, and every year 4 billion trees are cut down for paper use. But if every American recycled just one tenth of their newspapers we would save 25,000,000 trees each year. We can also recycle plastic bottles, metal cans, and glass bottles to keep them out of dumps and reuses them so we don't have destroy more resources to make more of them. Reusing things like old clothes by giving them to younger relatives can help by not throwing them away and then they don't have to go and buy more.
Reuse picture from: http://alifeonthisearth.blogspot.com/2011/07/reduce-reuse-recycle.html
Reduce picture from: http://www.meetthegreens.org/episode3/reduce.html
Recycle picture from: http://www.ema-online.org/2012/05/17/how-much-do-we-actually-recycle-in-california/
http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
http://phillupdbag.com/how_much_paper.php
Reuse picture from: http://alifeonthisearth.blogspot.com/2011/07/reduce-reuse-recycle.html
Reduce picture from: http://www.meetthegreens.org/episode3/reduce.html
Recycle picture from: http://www.ema-online.org/2012/05/17/how-much-do-we-actually-recycle-in-california/
http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
http://phillupdbag.com/how_much_paper.php