• Recycling paper and wood saves trees and forests. Yes you can plant new trees, but you can’t replace virgin rainforest or ancient woodlands once they’re lost. • Recycling plastic means creating less new plastic, which is definitely a good thing, especially as it’s usually made from fossil fuel hydrocarbons. • Recycling metals means there’s less need for risky, expensive and damaging mining and extraction of new metal ores. • Recycling glass reduces the need to use new raw materials like sand – it sounds hard to believe, but supplies of some types of sand are starting to get low around the world
Lesson videos:
• Today’s focus of the lesson is one of the 3 types of waste we mentioned on the first day, recycling • Youtube Video: How Recycling Works
• Do you know what happens to the items you put in the recycling bin? • Have you ever heard/seen a recycling center?
What does one usually do with a tuna can, or milk jug, pizza box before placing it in the recycling bin? Do people wash them first?
• Why would it be important to wash and dry the recycling items? • What can happen if items are not washed properly? • The next video will discuss contamination in recycling.