What Can You Recycle?
This item is used to hold water or soda, and you can recycle it once it's empty.
Plastic Bottle
Recycling helps take care of this place where we all live.
Earth
You put bottles, cans, and paper in this special container.
Recycling Bin
Instead of throwing away a plastic bottle, you can use it again for this.
Holding Water
This animal’s home is in danger because of too much trash in the ocean.
Sea Turtle
You write or draw on this, and when you’re done, you can recycle it.
Paper
Recycling helps keep this green area where animals and plants live clean.
Nature
Before recycling, you should do this to your bottles and cans to make them smaller.
Crush Them
You can bring a reusable bag to the store instead of using these.
Plastic Bags
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to power this for 3 hours.
TV
This is made from trees and used to ship things. It’s brown and strong.
Cardboard
By recycling, we save this, which is what we breathe.
Air
You should do this to dirty containers, like yogurt cups, before putting them in the recycling bin.
Rinse them
Instead of tossing out old clothes, you can do this to give them to someone who needs them.
Donate them
Plastic takes this many years to break down in a landfill.
500 Years
These are made of aluminum and hold your favorite fizzy drinks.
Can
Recycling saves energy, which helps fight this that makes the planet hotter.
Global Warming
When you recycle something, it can be turned into something new instead of this.
Trash
This “R” means making something completely new out of old items.
Recycle
Recycling paper saves this natural resource that grows in forests.
Trees
These glass containers often hold pasta sauce or jelly and can be recycled.
Jars
Recycling helps protect this, which is where fish and dolphins live.
Ocean
If your town doesn’t have curbside recycling, you can take your items to this kind of center.
Recycling Center
You can use old jars or cans to make this kind of container for pencils or flowers.
Holder (or vase)
This material, often used to make soda cans, can be recycled over and over without losing quality.
Aluminum