1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
By: Jess Groff, Lisa Klenk, and Christa Cox

2. REDUCE What is reducing? Reducing at home:
Lessening the amount of resources that are consumed. We should only use as much as we need to get by.
Reducing at home:
Turn off the lights when you leave a room
Turn off the water while you brush your teeth
Take a bath instead of a shower
Use both sides of a sheet of paper
Use cloth grocery bags instead of the plastic or paper ones

3. REUSE What is reusing? Reusing in The Three Little Pigs:
Finding ways to use materials again so that they don’t go to waste.
Reusing in The Three Little Pigs:
What could the little pig use the straw for, besides building a house?
What could the little pig use the sticks for, besides building a house?

4. Recycle
Definition:
Recycling means that a certain material can be reused either in the same way or a different way than it was originally used

5. What Can we recycle? Glass Jars and Bottles Aluminum Cans
Plastic Bottles (has to have 1 or 2 symbol)
Milk
Juice
Detergent bottles
Newspapers and any paper
Cardboard

6. Why Recycle!? To slow down to rate at which we use landfills
It saves energy because we don’t have to start from raw materials when we recycle
Some Facts:
The average American produces 100 garbage cans full of garbage every year
Every three months we throw away enough aluminum to rebuild every plane in every airline in America
Each year we throw away the equivalent of 30 million trees in newspapers
Bottom line is: It helps our environment (

7. Recycling in Ohio (http://www.epa.state.oh.us/pic/facts/get2know.pdf)
Each state forms their own laws and they are enforced within the communities
Ohio EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
The agency that enforces Ohio’s laws
Their goal is “to protect the environment and public health by ensuring compliance with environmental laws” (

8. Evaluation Questions In your group answer these three questions:
What are ways we can reduce amount of waste in our house?
How can we reuse the items we worked with today?
Why is recycling important and how can you do it at home?