This document discusses recycling and reducing waste. It notes that Americans create 4 pounds of garbage daily, with 70% able to be recycled. Failing to recycle means 100 million trees are cut down annually for paper waste. The document encourages recycling newspapers to save 500,000 trees each Sunday and reducing plate and cup waste which equals 6 world picnics of garbage per year. It describes how garbage is collected and taken to large landfills, with Alabama having 127 landfills for solid waste.
4. Why Recycle?
• Each American creates about 4 pounds of
garbage daily.
• 70% of all garbage can be recycled.
• 100 million trees are cut down each year to
make paper for “junk” mail.
• Every Sunday, 500,000 trees could be saved if
everyone recycled their newspapers.
• Americans throw away enough plates & cups
to have the world a picnic 6 times a year.
5. Keeping Our State Beautiful
How can you help
keep our state
beautiful?
6. Do you think this is beautiful?
Where does garbage go?
7. • First, we put it in our trash can.
• Then a truck picks it up from the street and
takes it away.
• The truck takes the garbage to a place called a
landfill.
8. Landfill
• A landfill is a big hole in the ground that is full
of garbage.
• It can be deeper than a four story building and
as large as 135 baseball fields!
• There are 127 solid waste landfills in Alabama.
