Untitled

Hi class, my name's Josie.

And I just wanted to inform you about how there are so many

ways that we can effectively teach K 12 students about environmental issues.

Starting with teaching students how they're able to play

their part and how that can affect their environment

by informing students about reducing waste

and reusing resources and recycling materials.

A simple and effective way to teach our kids about

environmental stewardship is to start a recycling program at home.

Explain to them why recycling is important and how it

can reduce pollution and damage to our our environment.

So I just wanted to go over a few quick facts about recycling

with you guys.

More and more people recycle every day. This helps to reduce

the need for landfill and more costly forms of disposal. Rec

recycling also reduces the need for

extracting refining and processing raw materials,

all of which

sub substantial air and water pollution.

And I just have a few pictures here of a few landfills

that we were talking about.

And then I wanted to go over five benefits of recycling,

recycling reduces waste sent to landfills and incinerators,

recycling prevents poll pollution, recycling conserves natural resources,

recycling,

conserves energy and recycling creates jobs producing economic benefits.

Here's another picture of another landfill

doesn't look too fun. To me.

Back to some facts.

Recycling helps to reduce the garbage and landfills as seen in this picture

that can take hundreds of years to break down. It is also,

it also helps to preserve trees by reducing the need for new paper.

If we do more to preserve natural resources,

we also help to support wildlife for all of us to enjoy,

to enjoy throughout our lives and save money

extracting and processing raw resources to make unstable materials such as paper,

plastic and metal requires a lot of energy.

Recycling often saves energy because the products being recycled usually

require much less processing to turn them into unstable materials.

What happens if we don't recycle?

Is it, is it more

waste would,

is that more waste would be incinerated or sent to these landfills again,

shown in this picture, increasing air and water pollution all over the world.

And here I just have a graph and it only goes up to 2021. But as you can see,

the amount of people that I've

been recycling has only went down.

And

while the while there's less new print in the marketplace,

it's still a very valuable fiber.

There's a greater percentage of new print in the marketplace being recycled.

That is what this graph is talking about

because it's a graph of recycling old newspapers and

mechanical papers.

And then I just wanted to give you five more important facts about recycling.

Dirty plastics cannot be recycled.

Enough plastic bottles are

discarded over a year to go around the planet four times. Isn't that crazy?

More than 90% of the ocean plastics come from just 10 rivers.

And the largest dumping site of plastics is

not a landfill is actually the Pacific Ocean.

So I just wanted to show you guys

a few tips to start recycling at home.

So step one, if you're wanting to start recycling at home,

which is only gonna help your environment,

you need to set up a recycling container next to your trash can.

This makes it so much easier

to have your recycling bin right next to your trash can.

So then whenever, then you need to find your local recycling plant,

the one closest to you

and then

have a recycling rules posted somewhere visible.

It could be like above your trash can and recycling

bin or just somewhere visible just like all the steps like

what you do and do not recycle

and you wanna take prevalent measures.

And I think that anyone can do this at home. It's

very easy and

it will only be helping our environment.

And I wish you guys all the best with your

at home. Recycling

Untitled

Chapters

Audio TranscriptAuto-generated