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
What are the 3 Rs
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
True or False: Recycling helps save energy
TRUE
Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours
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
True or False: You can recycle ALL plastics?
FALSE!
While some plastics are recycled, the process is not always efficient, and many types of plastic are not recycled at all
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
True or False: It takes plastic takes this 500 years to break down in a landfill.
TRUE
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
Can we recycle food waste?
No!
Compost it!
This “R” means making something completely new out of old items.
Recycle
FALSE
While many paper items such as office paper, mail, newspapers, and cardboard are recyclable, there are some exceptions that you should not recycle! No paper towels, plastic-coated paper, and paper that is dirty with food or grease
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
Name 4 things you can recycle
Bottles, cans, paper, plastic containers, glass
Name 3 things you can use old jars for
1. Jar other things
2. Vases
3. Water for paint
4. Other things!
True or False: Most clothing is recycled into new clothing?
FALSE
Less than 1% of clothing material is recycled into new clothing.