The document discusses recycling and its importance. It defines recycling as converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recycling symbol represents materials being collected, processed into new products, and consumed in new products. The three R's of recycling are reduce, reuse, and recycle. Various items are listed that can and cannot be recycled. Recycling saves natural resources and energy. The document encourages recycling to reduce pollution and help the environment.

3. What is Recycle?
It is the process of converting waste
materials into new materials and objects.

4. • It also means that we can use our
creative talent to make something
new out of something old.
• Most importantly, we can help save
the Earth and all of its resources.

5. What does the
Recycle Symbol
Mean?

6. • The first top arrow represents
the collection of recyclable
materials for processing.
• The bottom right arrow
represents the recyclables being
processed into recycled
products.
• The bottom left arrow is the
most important. It represents
when the consumer actually buys
a product with recycled content.

7. What are the three R’s
of Recycling?

8. Reduce
• Reduce means to use less of
something. Some examples
are:
1. Use a handkerchief instead of
tissues.
2. Use a cotton rag when cleaning
house instead of paper towels.
3. Use a sports bottle instead of
buying bottled water
everyday.

9. Reuse
• Reuse is to put again into
service without changing.
Examples are:
1. Wrapping paper
2.Floppy disks
3.Plastic grocery bags

10. Recycle
• Recycle is to put again into
service with changing.
Examples are:
1. Cans
2.Glass
3.Plastics

11. Where do I take my
Recyclables

12. • A local recycling center
• A local waste recycling
center
• At curbside
• A local bulky waste recycling
center

13. How can Recycling
conserve our natural
resources?

14. • Recycling conserves natural
resources by substituting
“secondary resources” such as
glass, metal, and paper for raw
materials extracted.
• By recycling paper the need to
cut down trees reduces.
• By recycling aluminum it
minimizes the need for mining
new minerals, thereby
decreasing damage to the
wilderness.

15. How does Recycling
save energy?

16. • The energy required to
manufacture paper, plastics,
glass, and metal from recycled
materials is usually less than
the energy required to produce
them from new materials.
• The steps such as collection,
processing, and transportation
is also usually less energy then
the steps in supplying new
materials.

17. Beautiful planet
We all want a clean Earth

18. A world full of junk
We don’t want a polluted Earth

19. Some things just
won’t go away…

20. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Banana peel = 3 to 4 weeks

21. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Paper bag = 1 month

22. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Wool sock = 1 to 5 years

23. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Cigarette butt = 5 years

24. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Plastic bag = 10-20 years

25. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Tin can = 80 to 100 years

26. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Aluminum can = 500 years

27. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Glass bottle = 1,000 years

28. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Styrofoam = unknown (a really long,
long time)

29. It is important to recycle
Time for garbage to decompose:
Plastic bottle = unknown (a long, long
time)

30. Things that CANNOT be recycled
• Aluminum Foil
• Auto Glass or Ceramics
• Batteries
• Film Canisters
• Food
• Light Bulbs
• Painted Wood
• Paper Towels and
Napkins
• Plastic Grocery Bags
• Plastic Wrap
• Porcelain
• Styrofoam
• Treated Wood
• Wrappers

31. What are some
things I can Recycle?

32. Things that CAN be recycled:
• Aluminum Cans
• Brown Paper Bags
• Cardboard
• Catalogs, Magazines, and
Phone Books
• Chipboard (Cereal Boxes,
Shoe Boxes, etc.)
• Colored Paper
• Computer Paper
• Envelopes
• Glass Bottles and Jars
(Without the Caps)
• Newspapers and Junk Mail
• Plastic Bottles and Jugs
(Without the Caps)
• Tin and Steel Cans
• Empty Aerosol Cans
• White Ledger Paper

33. • Paper
• Cardboard
• Glass
• Steel Cans
• Batteries
• Plastic
• Tires
• Shoes
• Computers

34. Recycle a phone book

35. into a pen organizer

36. Recycle old floppy disks…

37. into a pen holder

38. or into a notepad

39. Recycle a paper clip…

40. into a phone stand

41. Recycle a Pringles can

42. into a phone dock

43. or a gift packaging

44. Recycle milk bottles…

45. into home lights

46. Recycle cassette tapes…

47. into a lamp

48. Recycle a water bottle…

49. into a juicer

52. •RECYCLING
SYMBOLS

53. What Happens If
We Don’t Recycle
Plastic?

54. It’s your turn!

55. Think!

56. Make Earth a cleaner
place!
Recycle!