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

RecycleRecycling 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 Barrelhttp://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