1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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3. Ways to Reduce Reducing saves resources
Replace disposable with reusable
Donate useful items to charitable groups
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4. Reusing * Instead of cups use bottles.
*You can reuse grocery bags and trash bags.
* Instead of cups use bottles.
*Reuse bottles for other drinks again.

5. Reusing
*Pass on magazines and books to friends.
*Give old clothing, and household goods to charitable organizations.
*Recharge your batteries.
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6. Paper Landfills are 39% paper Our goal is to recycle 50% of all paper
Recycling paper saves
Boxes are 50% of all paper recycled
Only 2% of recycled paper is made into writing paper
Recycling paper is less polluting
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7. Glass is back
We throw away 28 billion glass bottles and jars each year.
Recycling glass uses 32% less energy and creates 20% less air pollution than making it from all new material.
To recycle glass just rinse the container and remove the metal rings and recycle. Don’t recycle broken glass, light bulbs, mirrors and plate glass.
Old glass can be recycled over and over again.
Green or amber glasscan protect food and beverages from light.

8. Plastics
When plastic is recycled it is made into different things like: detergent bottles, park benches, carpet, T-shirts, stuffing for ski jackets and other bottles. It can also be made into toys and heart valves.
Plastic milk jugs can be reused for flowerpots.
Plastics contain as much energy as petroleum and natural gas and more energy than other types of garbage
Plastics take 23% of space on a landfill

9. Aluminum Recycled aluminum may be reused.*
Reusing aluminum saves energy. *
Aluminum scraps can be recovered, recycled, and reused endlessly. *
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10. Styrofoam
When you recycle Styrofoam it gets mixed with acetone and turns into molds to make more Styrofoam.
You can use Styrofoam for a lot of things instead of recycling it.
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