the mistery of the 4r's
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The Mistery of the Four R’s
Once upon the time there was a
boy named Jimmy. Jimmy was
about your age and he lived in a
rural area in Costa Rica. It turned
out that the principal from Jimmy’s school decided to
enroll his school in a
competition about the
“4R’s”.
Jimmy and his friends
wanted to win the contest,
but they did not have a clue
about what did the “4R’s”
stand for. They decided to
investigate more about this
mysterious subject, so they interviewed people in their
school and their neighborhoods.
The first person to help them was Jimmy’s mom. She
told him that one of the R’s was for Recycling. –"What
is recycling?”, Jimmy asked.
-“Recycling is when you
take a material, for
example a plastic bottle,
and regain its material to
make something new, let’s
say barrettes for your sister’s hair. You can recycle
plastic, metal, paper, glass and a whole bunch of
things…”
-Thank you mom! I got it!
Daniel, who is Jimmy’s best friend, asked his
grandmother about the
“4R’s” and she told him that
one of the R’s was for
Reusing. -“Reusing is when you continue to use the
same material over and over. I use the same bottle to
carry water, instead of buying a new one every time
I’m thirsty. You could use the same plastic bag every
time you go shopping.”
Having “recycling”
and “reusing” on
their minds, Jimmy
and Daniel asked
Carlos to help them
research about the
other two R’s. Carlos told the guys that they should
ask their teachers, so they did it. Their Social Studies
teacher told them that the third R was for reducing.
-“What kind of thing can you reduce?” the three of
them asked at the same time. –“Several”, the teacher
said. “”When you are giving a small present, you can
wrap it in a small piece of paper instead of putting it in
a big box. Also, when you go to the supermarket you
can buy your groceries in bags instead of buying them
on plastic container.” Carlos responded to the teacher
and the boys –“That’s true. My mom buys a bag of
liquid soap and pours it into a bottle we have at
home.”
“Now we just
need to find out
what is the
meaning of the
last R”, Jimmy
said. They
asked other
teachers, but they did not know the answer. At last,
they asked their Science teacher and he told them
“That’s an easy question. The answer is rejecting.
When you bring your own bags to the supermarket,
you are rejecting other plastic bags. When you reuse
the boxes and bags they give you at the grocery store,
you are rejecting to produce more garbage. When you
carry your own bottle, you are rejecting to buy
another bottle that may end up in a river. As you see,
you can help the
environment by rejecting.”
In that way, Jimmy, Daniel,
and Carlos solved the
mystery of the “4R’s”.
Recycling¸ reusing, reducing, and rejecting were the
keys, not only to solve this enigma, but to help the
environment and win the contest. They told this
information to their classmates, and together they
won the contest by implementing the 4Rs.
Would you implement them too? It is easier than you
think… First, you can reduce the amount of garbage
you produce by carrying your own bag when you go
shopping, and rejecting to use another plastic bag.
You can reuse your juice bottle to carry your
beverages to school. You can recycle the paper from
your old notebooks and school projects, as well as the
groceries containers you use at home. It takes
everybody’s effort to help our world.
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