Waste and Recycling

Recycling Magic

200

What can be made from recycled plastic bottles?

- Wardrobes

- Musical instruments.

- More bottles.

More bottles. 

The plastic bottle you throw in the bin is collected, cleaned, crushed and transformed! It can become: a sim card, another plastic bottle, a duvet, a watering can, a pillow and even a sweater.

Waste Journey

100

Where do most of our waste end up?

In the ocean.

In space.

In the gutters.

In the ocean. 

• Waste dumped in the wild is transported by winds and rains to rivers, and ends up in the seas and oceans. This waste is very dangerous, as plastic kills more than 1.5 million animals a year.

Reuse and Reduce

300

Instead of throwing away the toys you no longer use, you can:

Give them away.

Burn them.

Put them in the attic.

Give them away.

• Before you throw away toys or clothes you no longer use, ask yourself if they can be useful to someone else. For example, you can bring them to a place that collects used items to restore them!

Ocean Trouble

200

Which of the following waste is not recyclable?

  - Plastic bag.

 - Your shampoo bottle.

 - Your cereal box.

Plastic bag

In large cities, garbage cans for paper and cardboard are easily found, and special garbage cans are found to collect glass. All this recyclable waste is then collected, cleaned and processed. Only household waste cannot be recycled, as is the case with plastic bags.

Bin it right

100

There is a huge ocean of waste in the Pacific Ocean, the size of:

A football stadium.

France.

Europe.

France. 

• In February 2010, scientists discovered a huge ocean of waste north floating on the ocean: capsules, plastic bags, caps extending over nearly 700,000 square kilometers, the size of France. This giant garbage can be a great danger to all marine species.