The Mistery of the 4Rs
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Jimmy and his friends wanted to win a school competition about the "4Rs" but didn't know what they stood for. Through interviewing friends and family, they learned the 4Rs were: Recycling, Reusing, Reducing, and Rejecting. Implementing these strategies like bringing reusable bags to the store helped the environment and allowed Jimmy and his classmates to win the competition by educating others about the 4Rs.
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- 1. The Mistery of the Four R’s Once upon the time there was a boy named Jimmy. Jimmy was about your age and he lived in a rural area in Costa Rica. It turned out that the principal from Jimmy’s school decided to enroll his school in a competition about the “4R”. Jimmy and his friends wanted to win the contest, but they did not have a clue about what did the “4R” stand for. They decided to investigate more about this mysterious subject, so they interviewed people in their school and their neighborhoods. The first person to help them was Jimmy’s mom. She told him that one of the R’s was for Recycling. –"What is recycling?”, Jimmy asked.
- 2. -“Recycling is when you take a material, for example a plastic bottle, and regain its material to make something new, let’s say barrettes for your sister’s hair. You can recycle plastic, metal, paper, glass and a whole bunch of things…” -Thank you mom! I got it! Daniel, who is Jimmy’s best friend, asked his grandmother about the “4R” and she told him that one of the R was for Reusing. -“Reusing is when you continue to use the same material over and over. I use the same bottle to carry water, instead of buying a new one every time I’m thirsty. You
- 3. could use the same plastic bag every time you go shopping.” Having “recycling” and “reusing” on their minds, Jimmy and Daniel asked Carlos to help them research about the other two R’s. Carlos told the guys that they should ask their teachers, so they did it. Their Social Studies teacher told them that the third R was for reducing. -“What kind of thing can you reduce?” the three of them asked at the same time. –“Several”, the teacher said. “”When you are giving a small present, you can wrap it in a small piece of paper instead of putting it in a big box. Also, when you go to the supermarket you can buy your groceries in bags instead of buying them on plastic container.” Carlos responded to the teacher and the boys –“That’s true. My mom buys a bag of liquid soap and pours it into a bottle we have at home.” “Now we just need to find out what is the meaning of the last R”, Jimmy said. They asked other teachers, but they did not know the answer. At last, they asked their Science teacher and he told them “That’s an easy question. The answer is rejecting. When you bring
- 4. your own bags to the supermarket, you are rejecting other plastic bags. When you reuse the boxes and bags they give you at the grocery store, you are rejecting to produce more garbage. When you carry your own bottle, you are rejecting to buy another bottle that may end up in a river. As you see, you can help the environment by rejecting.” In that way, Jimmy, Daniel, and Carlos solved the mystery of the “4R’s”. Recycling¸ reusing, reducing, and rejecting were the keys, not only to solve this enigma, but to help the environment and win the contest. They told this information to their classmates, and together they won the contest by implementing the 4Rs. Would you implement them too?