3 Rs

Which is an example of reducing?

• Using the same bag every time you go shopping

• Taking a shorter shower to save water

• Turning old cans into new cans

• Throwing away your trash

Which is an example of recycling?

• Using the same bag everytime you go shopping

• taking a shorter shower

• turning old cans into new cans

• throwing away your trash in the garbage can

If i buy a bottle of water and throw it away immediately what is this an example of?

• reducing

• reusing

• recycling

• disposal

The 3 Rs stand for

• Rest, read and rock on!

• Run, rap and resist

• Reduce, reuse and recycle

What does RECYCLING mean?

• throw away

• give things to other people

• make new things out of old ones

• using things again and again

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What should you do with your old clothes?

• burn them

• throw them into rubbish bin

• give to other people

• nothing

Select all the things below which are made from fossil fuels.

• Plastic bags

• Petrol

• Metal screws

• Pencils

Recycling is the process of:

• Buying new things

• Taking old or unwanted products and using the materials to make new things.

• Putting unwanted products in landfill.

• Burning unwanted products.

Select some benefits of recycling:

• Uses fewer limited resources.

• Uses less energy.

• Difficult to separate components of some materials.

• Makes less rubbish, which ends up in landfill sites.

Recycling could help to prevent further increases in greenhouse gas level.

• True

• False