Beyond Waste… Beyond Recycling. Three easy ways to shrink your garbage! Reduce Reuse Recycle.

Beyond Waste…Beyond

Recycling

Three easy ways to shrink your garbage!

• Reduce

• Reuse

• Recycle

Use LESS– Reduce the amount you buy! Then you’ll

have less to throw out. – Reduce the amount of packing you use.

Buy in bulk, and use containers at home!

Can you think of examples of REDUCING?

– Buy in bulk: reduce packaging

– Bring your own shopping bags to reduce plastic

– Re-fill containers to reduce your waste

Use something over again

• Find another use for your containers and boxes, old clothes or toys.

• Give them to a friend, or donate them.

Can you think of examples of REUSING?

• Make furniture out of old skis or hockey sticks

• Turn old pants into

shorts

• Make an organizer

out of tin cans

Allow products to be made into something new!

• Collect your recyclables (paper,

cans, bottles, etc.) and have them recycled

• Avoid having products be made brand new - save forests, water and our air.

Can you think of examples of Recycling?

• Use your blue box for

curbside recycling

• Take your drink containers

to the local bottle depot

• Make your own paper

out of scraps• Compost your food waste

Read the following sentences and see what they describe.

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE or COMPOST?

Raise your hand if you know the answer.

1. People melt plastic bottles and make new plastic bottles for juice. RECYCLE

2. You give your old books to a friend to read.REUSE

3. Your family turns off the water when they brush their teeth REDUCE

4. Your class collects used paper and uses it to make new paper.

RECYCLE

5. Your family collects your vegetable scraps when you prepare your meals

COMPOST

6. You collect your plastic shopping bags and use them as garbage bags.

REUSE

7. At the grocery store, you bring your own bag.

REDUCE

8. You bring home your apple core from your lunch to turn back into soil

COMPOST

9. Your class turns off the light when there is no one in the classroom.

REDUCE

10. Your mom uses the same lunch box for your sandwich each day

REDUCE AND REUSE!

11. You give your old clothes to the Salvation Army, they give it to others in need.

REUSE

12. You turn off the TV at home when you are not watching it.

REDUCE

Great Job! What do you think REALLY happens when something gets recycled?

LET’S FIND OUT !