Recycling

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

It is important to recycle aluminium because it uses less energy to recycle aluminium than to mine and extract aluminium from aluminium ore.

• True

• False

What are the benefits of recycling?

• Increases carbon dioxide emissions and keeps the planet warm so we are not as cold Mars

• Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators, Conserves natural resources, Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials, Saves energy.

• Wind farms become more economical and mining companies need to give more money to the poor.

• Cars can go faster on recycled petrol

Everyone has a carbon footprint.

• true 
• false

Which is not going to help reduce out carbon footprint?

• eating local food

• recycling

• driving to school

• planting trees

Which things can you recycle?

• cans

• bottles

• glass

• food

The total set of carbon emissions caused by an individual.

• carbon cycle

• carbon handprint

• carbon footprint

• carbon summary

Why should you be concerned with the size of your carbon footprint?

• Sometimes its hard to find shoes that are the right size.

• If we don't decrease greenhouse gas emissions Earth will continue to cool.

• Greenhouse gases are becoming scarce in Earth's atmosphere.

• Increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are contributing to global climate change.