Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

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Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

• Mandy Lynch

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What is Waste?

• Waste is anything released into the environment
  that could have a negative impact on that
  environment.
• The average American throws away 4.5 pounds of
  trash (waste) a day!
• Waste could be anything from paper to diapers or
  food to batteries.

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What can I do to help? The Three Rs

• REDUCE!
• Reduce means to make something smaller or use
  less, resulting in a smaller amount of waste.
• REUSE!
• Reusing something means to use a material again
  in its original form, or to give it to someone
  else who can use it.
• RECYCLE!
• Recycling is when you save a reusable material
  and take it to where it can be made into
  something new.

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How can I REDUCE?

• Buy less buy only what you need and use all of
  what you buy.
• Use durable items instead of disposable ones.
  For example, buy plastic plates that you can used
  many times instead of paper ones that you throw
  away after one use.
• Refuse store bags. Carry the items you purchase
  from the store by hand, or bring your own cloth
  bag to use.

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How can I REUSE?

• Donate used clothes to Goodwill or other
  charities.
• Use cloth diapers instead of disposable ones.
• If your bicycle breaks, fix it instead of
  throwing it away and getting a new bike.

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How can I RECYCLE?

• Almost everything at home and school can be
  recycled! Check to see how your community
  recycles.
• Dont throw anything away that can be recycled!
• Some recyclable materials include
• Aluminum cans
• Cardboard
• Magazines
• Paper
• Plastic bags
• Tires
• Wood
• Paint
• Electronic equipment

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Quiz Which is NOT one of the three Rs?

• Recycle
• Repeat
• Reuse
• Reduce

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Oops!

• Go back and read, then try again!

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Yes!

• That is correct!

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Bibliography

• "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle." NIEHS Kids' Pages.
  13 June 2007. 1 Oct. 2007 lthttp//kids.niehs.nih.g
  ov/recycle.htmgt.
• Waste to Energy. Energy Kids Page. 2006. 1
  Oc. 2007 lthttp//www.eia.doe.govgt.

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About Me!

• My name is Mandy Lynch. I am 22 years old and
  in my fifth year at Western Michigan University.
  I am an Elementary Education Major, with Early
  Childhood and English minors. I will be
  completing my Elementary Education Internship in
  the spring, and I am really excited to graduate!
• My hometown is Portage, MI, where I live on a
  farm with my parents, Mick and Lisa. We have six
  horses and three dogs, and I have pretty much
  lived in a barn for most of my life. My sister,
  Laura, who is 25, won the World Championship
  Morgan Horse Competition in 1997 for English
  Pleasure. I am planning on showing again once I
  graduate, and teaching my niece, Hannah, how to
  ride. She is only a year old, but I love her
  more than anything!
• The newest addition to my family is my Beta
  fish, Frosted. He was named by a four-year-old
  whose mom would not let her name her own fish
  Frosted, because It is not a noun! Her Betas
  name is Corn Flake.
• I was a cheerleader here at Western for four
  years, and I loved it! I coached two season of
  JV Cheerleading at Portage Central High School,
  and it is definitely something I would like to do
  again. I decided not to do it this year because
  I will not have time while completing my
  internship. I do not cheer anymore, but my
  boyfriend, Anthony, is on Westerns football
  team, so I go to all the games anyway! Im his
  personal cheerleader and 1 fan! Go Broncos! (He
  is in the picture above on the left. He has no
  hair and a big smile.)
• Every free second I get, I am reading or
  running. Anthony and my favorite date spot is
  Barnes Noble where we read, relax and drink
  mocha frapachinos. I just finished reading Emma
  McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries,
  and I loved it! I also just joined West Hills
  Athletic Club, which is like my second home now.
• I currently work at a child care center in the
  infant and toddler room. I tutor a ESL student
  (English as a Second Language) twice a week. I
  am also the Volunteer Coordinator of Sigma Tau
  Delta, the English Honors Society here at WMU.
• I live by the quote Do what you love and love
  what you do!

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This Power Point wasnt as bad as I thought it
would be!