We learned about recyling, reusing and reducing. It is important because animals get stuck in our litter, we could use up our resourses.You can reduce by 1. buy fewer throw away things 2. don't buy things you don't need 3. use cloth shopping bags 4. don't get junk mail
You can reuse by 1. use food containers again 2. give your unwanted things away 3. compost food scraps
You can recycle by 1. take your things to a recycling center
WEEKS: loose leaf paper 2-4most vegetable peels 2-5
MONTHS: cotton T-shirt 1-5
orange peel 6
YEARS: woollen sock-1
woollen sweater3-5
paper plate 5
plastic bag 10-20
painted wood 13
plastic film container : 20-30
leather shoe: 25-40
nylon parka: 30-40
rubber boot: 50-80
steel can: 100
aluminum can: 200-500
plastic cup: 250
plastic six pack holder: 450
disposable diaper: 500
glass bottle: 1,000,000 YEARS
plastic bottle: 1,000,000 YEARS
NEVER: polystyrene foam cup: NEVER
this is from the book Household Waste by Kate Walker
Isn't this picture sad. Never litter a plastic bag because a stork might get caught in it. 
Other animals can too like this turtle. 
Garbage can get into the ocean and hurt animals there too. Once I saw a penny in the water and animals like ducks can swallow them.
3 comments:
Hi Girls, This is very interesting. We recycle all the time. Nice job on your blog. XX
I think it's a good to point out that animals can be hurt by things we should recycle. I remember seeing a duck on TV that had a plastic soda holder (like from 6 packs of soda..) around it's neck!! Since then, I have always cut them up so nothing can get caught in them before recycling.. you never know!!
love,
Jenny p.
Well done Girls. Very insightful information. One day hopefully everyone will recycle and make the world a little bit safer and cleaner. Missing you and loving you. Dad
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