Let’s Learn About Ways to Save Our Planet

Let’s Learn About Ways to Save Our Planet Richard Saferian, Jordan Powell, Paula Landry

What Can You Do? • Learn ways you can reduce, reuse and recycle. • Explain how important your actions are to landfills and how we can save our world from pollution.

Reduce • Use less paper • Throw away less • Buy only what you need • Buy containers you can refill • Start by using less of something! • Collect recyclables for art projects • Purchase products with less packaging

Reuse • Reuse bags or use canvas bags when shopping • Have a garage or yard sales instead of throwing things away • Donate unused clothes and toys http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/reuse.html

Recycle Recycling is important to preserve natural resources • Recycle all Papers, Plastics, Glass, and Metal • Other things such as electronic equipment, and furniture can also be recycled • Buy Recycled Products • Use Recycle Bins http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/wondrous-world/recycling-process

What’s Next • Follow where trash and recyclables go • Learn Beyond the Barrel http://www.pima.gov/deq/waste/pdf/BeyondTheBarrel.pdf

Landfill

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at Home For more information go to Pima county site • http://www.pima.gov/deq/waste/recycle.html Neighborhood Recycling centers • http://www.pima.gov/deq/waste/recyclecenters.html

Let’s Learn About Ways to Save Our Planet