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Where does most of the garbage in the US end up??? A: oceans B: incinerators C: recycling centers D: landfills
Where does most of the garbage in the US end up???
Why recycle
Landfills are for waste, so why should we care?
So instead of using land for more and more of this If more of us used these to recycle correctly, we could reduce how much land we use for waste..
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Recycling a single addition of this one newspaper, the Sunday New York Times, would save 75,000 trees.
CRAZY FACTS!!! If you had a 15 year old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you would get about of them, which a grocery store could use up in less than an hour! A. 7 B. 70 C. 700 D. 7000
CRAZY FACTS!!!
CRAZY FACTS!!! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years
More Facts
What can you do?...
Have you seen these around school lately? As a community, we must learn to correctly use them for a cleaner greener environment.
In the next few slides you will learn what is considered to be recyclable in Phoenix.
Phoenix Recycles Plastic
Phoenix Recycles Paper cardboard food boxes junk mail wet strength paper board newspaper magazines phone books juice boxes shredded paper (placed in clear plastic bags)
Phoenix Recycles Glass glass bottles jars any food grade glass containers
Phoenix Recycles Metals, too aluminum cans metal cans small metal appliances empty aerosol cans (No Paint, Pesticides, Oven Cleaners). http://phoenix.gov/publicworks/recycling/recyclables.html
Don t forget Styrofoam! AKA - Polystyrene
Why do we want to avoid using Styrofoam? 1. It s easy to recycle 2. It takes 3 months to decompose in the landfill 3. Styrofoam recycling is slowly expanding in the US, but still it is estimated that it makes up 30% of the total solid waste volume dumped in landfills
Why do we want to avoid using Styrofoam?
GOOD NEWS Metro Tech has a Styrofoam compactor! This will be in operation soon and will take care of the Styrofoam materials used in our cafeteria! Until then
Earth 911.com Just looking for a facility nearby to drop off the Styrofoam? Earth 911.com provides a great service to help you locate a Styrofoam recycling facility in your area.
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What does Phoenix Recycle? 1. Plastics 2. Glass 3. Paper and cardboard 4. Aluminum and other metals 5. Styrofoam 6. All of the above 7. None of the above 8. Only the first four above
Phoenix Recycles What?
For America Recycles Day 2012, I pledge to: Learn. I will find out what materials are collected for recycling in my community at www.americarecyclesday.org Act. Reduce my personal waste by recycling. Within the next month, I will recycle more you decide, aluminum, paper, glass here at school, home, everywhere!
Make the world a better place for you, your family, and your community. Think GREEN!