Reduse and reuse

1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
By: Jess Groff, Lisa Klenk, and Christa Cox

2. REDUCE
 What is reducing?
 Lessening the amount
of resources that are
consumed. We should
only use as much as we
need to get by.
 Reducing at home:
 Turn off the lights when
you leave a room
 Turn off the water while
you brush your teeth
 Take a bath instead of a
shower
 Use both sides of a sheet of
paper
 Use cloth grocery bags
instead of the plastic or
paper ones

3. REUSE
 What is reusing?
 Finding ways to use
materials again so
that they don’t go
to waste.
 Reusing in The Three
Little Pigs:
 What could the little
pig use the straw for,
besides building a
house?
 What could the little
pig use the sticks for,
besides building a
house?

4. Recycle
 Definition:
 Recycling means that a
certain material can be
reused either in the
same way or a different
way than it was
originally used

5. What Can we recycle?
 Glass Jars and Bottles
 Aluminum Cans
 Plastic Bottles (has to
have 1 or 2 symbol)
 Milk
 Juice
 Detergent bottles
 Newspapers and any
paper
 Cardboard

6. Why Recycle!?
 To slow down to rate at which we use landfills
 It saves energy because we don’t have to start from
raw materials when we recycle
 Some Facts:
 The average American produces 100 garbage cans full of
garbage every year
 Every three months we throw away enough aluminum to
rebuild every plane in every airline in America
 Each year we throw away the equivalent of 30 million trees
in newspapers
 Bottom line is: It helps our environment
(http://www.houstonbeautiful.org/recycle.htm)

7. Recycling in Ohio
 Each state forms their own laws and they are
enforced within the communities
 Ohio EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
 The agency that enforces Ohio’s laws
 Their goal is “to protect the environment and public
health by ensuring compliance with environmental
laws”
(http://www.epa.state.oh.us/pic/facts/get2know.pdf)

8. Evaluation Questions
In your group answer these three questions:
 What are ways we can reduce amount of
waste in our house?
 How can we reuse the items we worked
with today?
 Why is recycling important and how can
you do it at home?