Making a Difference

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Making a Difference

• There are simple things we can all do to help
  protect the Earth!

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We travel together, passengers on a little
spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies
of air, water, and soil preserved from
annihilation destructiononly by the care, the
work, and I will say, the love we give our
fragile craft. -Adlai Stevenson
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Unpolluted air is full of Oxygen that protects us
from solar radiation.
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Unpolluted soil gives healthy nutrients to
food and flowers.
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Earths beauty can be protected or abused.
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What if we each made a small effort to stop
trashing the Earth?
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With your elbow partner, briefly share 3
things you threw away this morning without even
thinking about it. Use complete
sentences.What does disposable mean
anyway? Define and give an example.
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Think of all the things we throw away each day.
Where do you think it goes?

• We have to stop buying things that we use once
  and then throw away.

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What can you do about solid waste?

• Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Take a guess

• What is glass make of?
• Frozen water
• Sand
• Plastic

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Did you know?

• Every month we throw out enough glass to fill up
  a giant skyscraper.
• Over 28 billion bottles and jars!
• That is 28,000,000,000 bottles/month
• Glass can be recycled at factories where they
  break the bottles, melt them down and make new
  jars and bottles.
• This also saves energy.

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Take a guess

• How many times can one aluminum can be recycled?
• Never
• Once
• Twice
• Again and again and again.

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Did you know?

• We use over 65 billion aluminum cans every year
  and we could recycle every one of them.
• There is no limit to the number of times an
  aluminum can could be recycled.
• You might be drinking out of a can that was used
  20 years ago.
• Recycling aluminum saves energy. The energy you
  save from recycling one can could keep your TV
  running for three hours!

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Take a guess!

• What percentage of the plastic we buy and throw
  away each year is just packaging?
• 75
• 50
• 25
• 10
• What happens to it when its thrown away?

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Take a guess!

• What percentage of the plastic we buy and throw
  away each year is just packaging?
• 75
• 50
• 25
• 10
• Sometimes the packaging costs more than the item
  inside it!

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What can you do?

• Look for things in packages that can be reused or
  recycled.
• Look for cardboard or paper packages
• not styrofoam or plastic.
• Have a garage sale.
• Donate to a Thrift store or Salvation Army
• Offer things you no longer use to other people.

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Did you know?

• Styrofoam is permanent garbage. In can NEVER
  become part of the earth again.
• Styrofoam is dangerous to animals. They think it
  is food and eat it.
• Styrofoam is not recycleable, but food is.

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Take a guess!

• Which of these is something a worm wont eat??
• Beef Steak
• Dirt
• Vegetables

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You can compost used foods.

• You can make compost out of any thing that was
  once alive.
• Fruit peels are great.
• Potato skins are great.
• Veggies are great.
• Egg shells are great.
• Just dont use any meat!

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Did you know?

• Each of us produces about 600 kg of organic
  garbage per year. That would weigh more than
  all the kids in this school.
• None of it needs to go in the landfill
• it can go back into your garden.
• Worms can help you compost
• and they are good for your garden.

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Reducing Trash helps protect our water and keep
it clean.
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What can you do about solid waste?

• Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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What can you do to conserve water?Be a water
leak detective.

• If a leaky faucet fills a coffee cup in 10
  minutes how much water will it waste in a year?
  Enough for
• A glass of water
• A bath
• 52 baths

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What can you do?

• Turn the tap off while brushing your teeth
• Wash your car with a bucket of water
• Sweep your driveway
• Use drip irrigation
• Plant native plants xeric landscaping
• Keep water in the fridge so it is cold.
• Obey water restrictions

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Shower or Bath

• Take a guess
• Which uses more water?
• A bath
• An eight minute shower

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What can you do?Dont Dump it!

• Take a guess
• Which of these would you want in your drinking
  water?
• Furniture polish
• Motor oil
• Paint thinner

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None of them!
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Storm drains lead to streams.
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Protect those streams!

• What can you do?
• Plant, Plant, Plant, dont litter and conserve
  water!

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Everyone needs to look out for our beautiful
planet.
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• The earth does not belong to man.
• Man belongs to the earth.
• Man did not weave the web of life.
• We are merely a strand in it.
• What we do to the web,
• We do to ourselves.
• - Chief Seattle - 1853
• Briefly discuss with your elbow partner.
• What do you think he means?

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Every week is Environment Week and every day is
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