Recycling Pamplet Information

Please Recycle It Saves Our World ! ! !

(Don’t Forget Upcycling)
www.recycletheworld.blogspot.com
Let’s help the world ! ! !

Do you love yourself, your friends, your family, the earth? Then do something
about it ! ! !

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR EARTH?
Did you know that every year American people throw
away 208 million tons of municipal solid waste? That
means that every day each person throws away an
average of 4.3 pounds of garbage or trash! Where on
earth does all of this garbage go? The answer is
landfills.
(http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/save/recycling.shtml)

Recycling makes a difference not only for us today,
but also for future generations. The fact about
natural resources is that not all natural resources are
renewable, meaning that when they are gone, they
are gone for good. Through recycling, we can make
the most of the natural resources we do have,
without depleting reserves. As people worldwide are
turning more and more to disposable packaging for
their products, there is more and more waste being
created. Some items, such as plastic, take many years
to biodegrade, if they do at all. Without recycling,
these products fill up our landfills, taking much
needed space and making it uninhabitable
(http://recycling-guide-to.com/topics/effects-of-not-recycling.html)

WHAT CAN WE DO FOR
OUR EARTH?
There are simple things we can do now to help save
our earth:
---Use reusable cups, instead of disposable
paper or plastic cups
--- Buy a filtered water pitcher, don’t buy
bottled water. The cost and amount of
fuel used to ship water to other
countries is massive. Numerous tests
have shown that tap water is the exact
same as bottled water.

--- Upcycle:

The word Upcycling was coined by William
McDonaugh and Michael Braugart in their book on
ecologically intelligent design, Cradle to Cradle. In the
simplest terms, upcycling is the practice of taking
something that is disposable and transforming it into
something of greater use and value.
http://www.etsy.com/contest.php
Recycle,
Reduce,
Reuse