The document discusses the three R's of reducing waste: reduce, reuse, and recycle. It defines each term and provides examples of how to implement them. Reducing means using fewer resources by turning off lights and water when not in use. Reusing means finding additional uses for items to prevent waste, like using straw for bedding. Recycling means reprocessing materials like plastic, glass, and paper to manufacture new products, which helps conserve resources and landfill space. The summary encourages adopting these practices to lessen environmental impact.

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?