How Can You Help The Environment?By Shelby, Rachel, and Austin

WANT TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT?

Remember the following words:

Reduce Reuse Recycle

REDUCE Reduce means to

limit the amount of things we throw away.

One way to reduce trash is to use reusable containers instead of plastic or paper bags.

Use reusable water bottles instead of buying water in plastic bottles. This will save money and help the environment.

REUSE Reuse means to use

an object again instead of throwing it away. Some items that you can reuse are plastic bags, glass containers, gift bags, and soda bottles

Pencil Jar

Flower Vases

Storage Containers

RECYCLE To recycle means to

take a product that can no longer be used and have it sent to a recycling center to be broken down and made into something entirely new.

How does this help the environment?

Reduces the amount of waste in landfills

Helps to keep our planet clean for future generations

Saves energy when extra products are not being created

Conserves our natural resources

Prevents pollution

This is what we are doing to our environment. These

are land fields.

We want to keep our planet clean for future generations!

Even You Can Help!

What can you do?

ReduceReuse

Recycle

Thank You!

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NIEHS. (2012). Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Retrieved February 27, 2011 from http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/recycle.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2010). Wastes-resource conservation-reduce, reuse, recycle. Retrieved February 27, 2011 from http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/recycle.htm