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    Recycling Week is an annual event held each September to promote reducing waste and recycling. The theme, "Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands," has both a literal and metaphorical meaning. Managing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling (the 3 R's) is important to reduce pollution, use less landfill space, and conserve energy and resources. During Recycling Week, local groups work to encourage people to recycle more of what can be accepted in community bins and collection points, such as glass, plastic, metal and cardboard. The document emphasizes that individual actions, like choosing items with less packaging and properly disposing of recyclable materials, can collectively make a positive difference.

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    Recycling Week is an annual event held each September to promote reducing waste and recycling. The theme, "Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands," has both a literal and metaphorical meaning. Managing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling (the 3 R's) is important to reduce pollution, use less landfill space, and conserve energy and resources. During Recycling Week, local groups work to encourage people to recycle more of what can be accepted in community bins and collection points, such as glass, plastic, metal and cardboard. The document emphasizes that individual actions, like choosing items with less packaging and properly disposing of recyclable materials, can collectively make a positive difference.

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    Recycling Week is an annual event held each September to promote reducing waste and recycling. The theme, "Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands," has both a literal and metaphorical meaning. Managing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling (the 3 R's) is important to reduce pollution, use less landfill space, and conserve energy and resources. During Recycling Week, local groups work to encourage people to recycle more of what can be accepted in community bins and collection points, such as glass, plastic, metal and cardboard. The document emphasizes that individual actions, like choosing items with less packaging and properly disposing of recyclable materials, can collectively make a positive difference.

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    Recycle Week 2019 Power Point

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    Recycling Week is an annual event held each September to promote reducing waste and recycling. The theme, "Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands," has both a literal and metaphorical meaning. Managing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling (the 3 R's) is important to reduce pollution, use less landfill space, and conserve energy and resources. During Recycling Week, local groups work to encourage people to recycle more of what can be accepted in community bins and collection points, such as glass, plastic, metal and cardboard. The document emphasizes that individual actions, like choosing items with less packaging and properly disposing of recyclable materials, can collectively make a positive difference.

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    Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands.

    Aim
    • To understand the purpose of Recycle Week.
    • To know the three R’s of managing waste.

    Success Criteria
    • I can think about how to recycle rubbish.
    • I know why recycling is important.
    • I can explain what happens to our waste.
    What Is Recycle Week?
    Recycle Week is a annual event, held each September, to
    promote and celebrate the importance of reducing our
    waste.

    Managing the waste we produce through our everyday lives


    is important because we need to reduce, reuse and recycle
    resources.

    Local authorities, shops, brands, schools, businesses and


    community groups work together during the week.

    This year, Recycle Week starts on Monday 23rd September


    and runs until Sunday 29th September.
    What Is Recycle Week?

    Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands

    The theme has two


    meanings: literal and
    metaphorical.

    Can you explain them?


    What is Recycling?
    Food, drink, clothes, toys and many other items we buy often have lots of
    packaging around them. The packaging protects them in transit to us but
    after we open the items, we don’t need the packaging anymore. If we
    throw the packaging in the bin, it might be burnt or it might go to landfill.

    To be more responsible with our rubbish, one of the things we can do is to


    recycle.

    Recycling means taking objects and using the materials they


    are made from to make something new and useful.
    What is Recycling?

    This is the symbol that


    tells us something can be
    recycled.
    Why do you think it was
    chosen?
    The Three Rs of Managing Waste
    Reduce
    Try to buy items that don’t have much packaging, or ideally, none at all! Many shops are
    reducing plastic wrap around fresh foods, such as cucumbers and bananas. Or, you could
    grow your own food in an allotment or school garden.

    Reuse
    Reuse old packaging for something else. Yoghurt pots can be used as paint pots, a welly
    could be used as a planter in the garden and cardboard can be used in the compost bin to
    improve the soil.

    Recycle
    If you’ve reduced and reused as much rubbish as you can, then the next best thing is to
    recycle.
    Why Is It Important to Recycle?

    Recycling reduces pollution. Recycling reduces landfill.

    Recycling saves energy. Recycling saves resources.


    Why Is It Important to Recycle?
    Recycling reduces pollution
    Recycling creates less pollution. For
    example, making a plastic bottle from
    recycled plastic bottles creates much less
    pollution than making a new one!
    Why Is It Important to Recycle?
    Recycling reduces landfill
    Most of the rubbish that isn’t recycled is put
    into landfill. This is a huge pit in the ground
    that gets filled with our rubbish!
    It can take over 100 years for the rubbish to
    rot down.
    The rubbish in landfill sites gives off
    harmful chemicals and gases which
    pollute the ground, water and air.

    The landfill sites in the UK are nearly


    full… where will our rubbish go then?

    The UK sends 18.8 million tonnes


    of household waste to landfill
    every year.
    Why Is It Important to Recycle?
    Recycling saves energy!
    Making a recycled item rather than a whole new one from scratch uses
    less energy!

    1 recycled tin can 1 recycled glass 1 recycled plastic bottle


    would save enough bottle would save would save enough
    energy to power enough energy to energy to power a 60-
    a television for power a computer for watt
    3 hours. 25 minutes. light bulb for
    3 hours.
    How Can We Help?
    In the UK now, ¾ of food cans (such as tins of baked beans or dog food) and ½
    of drinks cans (such as cola or lemonade cans) are recycled.

    This means that one quarter of food cans and one What
    half of drinks cans are thrown in the bin! could an
    old plastic
    We can think carefully about where to put our bottle be
    rubbish and recycle as much as we can. used for?

    We can choose to buy items which have less packaging or no packaging


    at all. We can also reuse the old packaging we do have.
    What Can Be Recycled?
    Glass

    Plastic Metal

    Click
    me!

    Cardboard
    What Can Be Recycled?
    Simply check the packaging and look for a symbol.

    If you see this symbol, then it can be Most councils will not recycle this.
    recycled. Wash the container out and Put it in the bin.
    put it in your recycling bin or take it Don’t litter because this harms
    to a recycling collection point. wildlife. This waste may go to landfill
    Click Job done! or be burnt if it can’t be recycled.
    me!
    How To Recycle
    Rinse old plastic bottles and containers.

    Squash packaging to save space in your


    recycling bin.

    Sort the recycling into different materials;


    plastic milk bottles, glass jars, food tins
    and cardboard boxes may all need to go
    into different bins.

    Put it in the correct recycling bin.

    Feel great about helping our environment!


    Where To Recycle
    As well as home recycling bins, there are many recycling banks across
    the UK that can be used to recycle different materials. They are located
    on streets across the UK as well as in supermarkets and outside housing
    estates.

    Oxfam Recycling Bank by Howard Lake @flickr.com is licenced under CC 2.0


    Conclusion
    Encourage your friends and family to follow the three Rs.

    Talk about why recycling is important.

    Demonstrate how to be an effective recycler.

    Motivate people and teaching them how to recycle more.

    Do a litter pick in your local area and recycling the litter.

    Can you remember the


    three Rs of managing
    waste?
    Recycling. It’s in Our Own Hands.
    Each and every one of us can make a difference.
    Think about the rubbish you have in your hands and make the
    right choice about what to do with it.

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