Recycling Basics
Recycling helps stop filling up this place with trash
The Landfill
This cardboard tube from a paper found in the bathroom can go in the recycling bin.
toilet paper roll
These two bins help you sort trash and recycling. One is for garbage, and one is for this
These tiny plastic pieces are found in oceans and fish
Mircoplastics
The 3 R’s are Reduce, Reuse, and this last one.
Recycling
This symbol with three arrows in a triangle shows that something can be recycled.
The Recycling Symbol or Triangle
You can't recycle pizza boxes if they are covered in this
Grease or oil
Instead of throwing away old clothes, you can do this to give them to someone else.
Donate them
Plastic doesn’t break down fast. It can last for a very long time, even hundreds of what?
Years
Before you recycle something, try to do this with it again.
Reusing
We often recycle things like paper and this shiny metal used in soda cans.
Aluminum
These soft plastic bags from the grocery store usually can’t go in your home recycling bin.
Plastic Bags, or plastic shopping bags
Instead of using plastic bottles, try using this kind you can refill.
Reusable Plastic water bottles
Plastic straws and forks used only one time are called this.
Single use plastics
This “R” is the best way to make less trash, don’t make it in the first place
Reduce
Recycling helps lower the amount of this gas that warms up the Earth.
Carbon Dioxide or Greenhouse gases
Before putting a plastic bottle in the recycling bin, it’s a good idea to take this off.
Cap of the plastic bottle
These brown scraps from food, like apple cores or banana peels, can be turned into healthy soil.
Compost or fertilizer
When plastic sits in the sun and breaks into small pieces, it’s doing this
Breaking Down
By using the 3 r's in our daily lives, we can keep the earth ______?
Sustainable, Strong, Healthy, or Eco-Friendly