cag recycling!

CAG Recycling!Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

What is Recycling?• Reduce• Reuse• Recycle

Reduce!• Decrease unnecessary and wasteful

purchases• Decrease waste & pollutants• Conserve trees! Use notebook paper

efficiently and reduce needless or excessive printing of paper

Reuse! • Take care of your stuff• Repurpose• Donate• Bring a reusable water bottle for

drinking water at school• Make bottle bricks

Buy Recycled• Products made from recycled materials• Make it truly recycling• Close the loop

Recycling Benefits:• You• Society• The Environment

Recycling Builds Community• People work together• Communicate• Share ideas• Support each other

Recycling Helps Protect the Environment• Reduced contamination risk from landfills• Reduced pollution• Reduced environmental impact from

mining or extracting fresh raw materials.

Recycling is a Choice• The plastic bottle or paper scrap won’t

recycle itself…• It’s up to YOU to make the choice to

recycle.

Recycling is a Way of LifeOnce you make the choice to recycle and stick to that choice everyday…

Recycling becomes second nature

– a way of life.

Let’s All RecycleToday!

Recycle!• Recycle paper in designated

boxes inside your classroom 

• Recycle plastic PET bottles in the yellow trashcans in the hallways

Bottle Bricks• Rinse out and refill your bottle with

plastic trash to create a bottle brick

Bottle SchoolsRight here in Guatemala, people are building schools using plastic bottles filled with plastic trash. This method saves

Keep a bottle in your locker or backpack and fill it with as much plastic trash as possible. Turn finished bottle bricks into your homeroom teacher.

*** Let’s see how many bottles we can fill this year! ***

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