Recycling for Our Community and Our World Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Recycling for Our Community and Our
WorldReduce, Reuse, Recycle!

• By Cordia High School STLP

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Global Warming

• Global warming refers to the increase in the
  average temperature of the Earth's near-surface
  air and oceans in recent decades and its
  projected continuation.
• Global warming can cause
• -changes in rainfall patterns
• -a rise in sea level
• -a variety of effects on humans, plants, and
  
• wildlife
• Global warming is mainly caused by human
  activity!

http//epa.gov/climatechange/kids/change.html
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Greenhouse Effect

• The greenhouse effect is the rise in the Earths
  temperature due to gases such as carbon dioxide,
  nitrous oxide, and methane. These gases are
  called greenhouse gases because they trap in the
  heat and energy from the Sun in order to warm the
  Earth. Think of an actual greenhouse around the
  Earth. These gases are the Earths greenhouse.
  Without these gases, the Earth would be
  approximately 60F colder, which would make it
  impossible to live.

http//epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html
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Greenhouse Effect

• Since the Greenhouse Effect is how our Earth is
  heated, we must try to protect our atmosphere as
  much as possible.
• Humans are damaging the atmosphere by burning
  resources, such as fossil fuels.
• Fossil fuels substances found below the Earths
  surface that can be used as a source of energy.
  Petroleum, natural gas, and coal are fossil
  fuels.
• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/space/glossar
  y.htm.

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When do We Send Greenhouse Gases into the Air?

• You may not know it, but you send greenhouse
  gases into the air every day! You do this when
  you
• -Watch TV
• -Use the air conditioner
• -Use a hairdryer
• -Microwave a meal
• Most of these actions require electricity, which
  comes from power plants. Most power plants burn
  fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, which
  produces greenhouse gases. These gases are what
  damages our Earths atmosphere.

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How Can we Make a Difference?

• You can make a difference if you reduce, reuse,
  and Recycle!
• Reduce to use less Conserve energy, water, and
  non-renewable resources. Turn lights off when
  you leave a room. Dont leave cell phone
  chargers, hair dryers, etc. plugged inthey use
  electricity even when they are not on. Take
  cloth grocery bags to the store with you to put
  your groceries in. Dont leave your television
  on at night. Take showers instead of baths and
  turn the water off when you are shampooing your
  hair.
• Reuseto clean or repair something old and use it
  again instead of throwing it away.
• Example Make crafts using cans (pencil
  holders) make quilt pieces out of used clothing
  make Halloween costumes out of used clothing.
• Recycle- to make new products from old ones.
  This saves energy because it takes a lot less
  energy to make products out of recycled material
  than it does to make products out of raw
  material. Since recycling saves energy, it saves
  fossil fuels because products are usually made by
  burning fossil fuels as a source of energy. This
  also produces less pollution.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Educational
  Resources. http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/sp
  ace/glossary.htm.

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Seven Items You Didnt Know You Could Recycle!

• Athletic Shoes-Nike will recycle any brand
  of athletic shoe through its Reuse-a-Shoe
  program. You can drop them off at any Niketown
  store or Nike Factory store. You can also mail
  them in. The company uses the footwear to make
  sports surfaces for basketball courts, tennis
  courts, running tracks, and playgrounds. To date,
  app. 20 million pairs of shoes have been recycled
  worldwide through this program.
• http//today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21642033

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• 2. Techno-trash-VHS tapes, game cartridges,
  digital cameras, MP3 players, cords, cables,
  cassettes, VCRs, and even computer monitors can
  all be recycled! A company called Greendisk will
  reprocess this technology in an eco-friendly way.
  You can mail your techno-trash to the company.
  The cost is 6.95 for 20 pounds of equipment.

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• 3. Computers-Most major computer manufacturers
  now offer some type of recycling program-Dell,
  Hewlett Packard, Gateway, Apple, and Toshiba. It
  is important to recycle computers because they
  contain harmful chemicals that damage the
  environment. Never just throw a computer or
  monitor away!

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• 4. Mattresses- In most areas of the country, you
  cant recycle mattresses but you can reuse them.
  The Freecycle network is an internet community
  with chapters all over the world, in which people
  offer up items they no longer want and other
  people take them. You can get on this network and
  get rid of almost every usable item you could
  think of.

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• 5. Handheld Devices- You can recycle old cell
  phones, pagers, and PDAs. Drop them off at
  staples stores, which has partnered with
  CollectiveGood, which is a nonprofit organization
  that reuses the phones or metals inside them.

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• 6. Dry-cleaning Hangers and Plastic- Some dry
  cleaners will take them back and reuse them, and
  some tailors and alteration shops will take them
  also. However, dry-cleaning is harmful to our
  environment because it uses a chemical called
  perc, so it would be better to avoid it
  altogether.

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• 7. Soiled Glass and Plastic- The recycling plant
  should be able to remove contaminants from most
  jars or bottles. However, the cleaner the
  recyclables are, the less energy it takes to
  process them. You should rinse them as you empty
  them and bag them separately.

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• Aluminum
• Aluminum is a valuable resource.
• Today, aluminum and aluminum alloys are used to
  make cans, foil, kitchen utensils, and parts for
  airplanes, rockets, and other items that require
  a light material that is strong.
• Ninety-seven percent of aluminum bauxite ore is
  imported.

Alloya homogeneous mixture or solid solution of
two or more metals
Eggland, Dlabay, and Burrow. Intro. To Business.
P. 133. 2004. http//education.yahoo.com/referenc
e/dictionary/entry/alloy
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When you recycle plastic, you save

• Petroleum
• Petroleum is used to make most plastic.
• Recycled milk jugs are used to make plastic
  lumber, which has proven to be very durable.

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By Recycling Paper you save

• Trees, which provide oxygen and animal habitats.
• Paper is made from wood pulp.
• Recycling also saves landfill space land is a
  valuable resource. Cities are having to send
  their trash down rivers on barges. Finding
  landfill space is getting difficult.

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Water Conservation!

• Water Conservation refers to reducing the use of
  freshwater.
• Earth is 2/3 water, but all the fresh water
  streams only represent one hundredth of one
  percent (0.01) of that total.
• Using less energy will help conserve water
  because it will cause less air pollution, which
  will cause less acid rain to pollute our streams
  and rivers.

http//educators.kypride.org/
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Vocabulary

• Global Warming-the increase in the average
  temperature of the Earths near-surface air and
  oceans in recent decades and its projected
  continuation
• Greenhouse Effect-phenomenon whereby the earths
  atmosphere traps solar radiation, caused by the
  presence of gases such as carbon dioxide, water
  vapor, methane that allow incoming sunlight to
  pass through but absorb heat radiated back from
  the earths surface
• Greenhouse Gases- Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide,
  and methane
• Conservationusing wisely avoiding waste
• Energythe power to do work making new items
  from recycled ones takes less energy than making
  products from brand new materials.
• Landfilla specially constructed site for safely
  and effectively disposing of garbage
• Polymerlong chains of chemicals, that can be
  twisted and molded into products. Petroleum is
  heated at very high temperatures to be broken
  down into polymers and made into plastic.
• Water Conservation-using less watera valuable
  natural resource
• Non-renewable resources-a natural resource that
  cannot be remade, re-grown, or regenerated on a
  scale comparative to its consumption.

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• Lets Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!
• Its worth the effort to ensure our future and
  the future of generations to come!

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
• http//www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/space/glossar
  y.htm
• http//today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21642033
• http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.
  aspx
• http//en.wikipedia.org/