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Fiona UndriLL
Introduction
4 Paper
10
5 Plastic
12
6 Glass
14
7 Metal
16
8 Food Waste
18
20
22
Activities
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P~ecU
Picture Dictionary
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We should put less waste in
landfills. We can help to do
this when we reduce, reuse,
and recycle our waste. When
we reduce our waste, we make
less waste. We can help to do
this when we only buy things
that we really need. We can
also borrow things, or fix
things when they break. When
we don't buy so many things,
we reduce waste.
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+ Go to pages 26-27 for activities.
Recycling SymboLs
can recycle
can't recycle
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+ Go to pages 28-29 for activi~ies.
activi~ies.
Different factories
recycle different types
of plastic. At the
factory, machines
clean the plastic and
cut it into small pieces.
Other machines melt
the plastic and clean it
again. Then, machines cut this clean plastic
into small pellets. Other factories use these
pellets to make new plastic things.
We can use recycled plastic to make phones,
clothes, chairs, toys - and much more!
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+ Go to pages 40-41 for activiti es.
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4 Food
of waste
decomposes fast.
5 Some materials
decompose.
2 Match.
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to decompose.
8 We should make
waste.
paper
pLastic
some metals
Time to
Decompose
from 2 to 5 months
up to 1,000 years
from 80 to 100 years
never
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Whe.n
~e.
re.du{..e. our
we use it again.
we use it to make
something new.
put less waste
in landfills.
when they break.
we make less waste.
~aste., ~e.
reuse
recycle
1 We should reduce l
our waste.
reduce
ma\(e. \e.ss
~aste..
2
3
4 ____________________________________
fa\se.
and recycle
one million
re.{..1 d e.
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5 Write ./ or X.
At homel we recycle things made of:
paper
glass
plastic
metal
glass
recycle
good
plastic
cars
new
that we can _ _ __
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5 Write./ or X.
newspapers
birthday cards
comic books
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0
0
0
drawing paper 0
writing paper 0
mail
Plastic
.. Read pages 12-13.
plastic from
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5 clothes. / We can use / recycled plastic / to make
decompose
factory
different
clothes
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types of plastic.
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Glass
hot
melt
magnet
blow
sand
2 Match.
1
2
3
4
Glass is
People sort the glass
Machines break the glass
When we make new glass
from recycled glass
5 People can recycle
6 We use most recycled
glass to
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5 At a glass recycling
the glass into smaLL
for recycling.
glass to make new
, machines break
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6 One aluminum
different
rocks
recycle
metals.
3 We save
4 We can
Food Waste
pLants to grow.
with our food waste.
food decomposes
very sLowLy.
banana skins.
when we onLy buy the
food that we need.
1
2
3
4
5
4
5
What we eat.
We can't eat the skin of this fruit.
Compost helps plants to grow here.
In landfills, food does this slowly.
We can make this with our food waste.
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Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
2~
3~
My Food
Waste Today
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2 dirty
3 waste
trees
polluted
air
4 machines
land
plants
sick
future
water
factories
animals
landfills
gLass bottLes
for paper:
for gLass:
c.ars
reduc.e
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A Recycling Poster
1 Think about recycling. Write notes.
A Recycling Survey
1 Interview your friends and family.
Write .I or X.
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4
3
2
1
paper plastic
glass
metal
Picture Dictionary
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batteries
billion
blow
bubbles
cans
machine
magnet
clothes
cut
dangerous
waste
dirty
Earth
newspaper
fibers .
food
gas
recycle
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electricity
factory
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glass
CD
ground
grow
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ink
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melt
metal
million
oil
paper
plastic
pollution
refrigerator
river
rocks
sand
i '"rJfl
:y-
kill
soap
sort
staple
throwaway
waste
CD
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