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REDUCE AND RECYCLE

• What happens to the garbage after they put it
in the garbage can?
Reduce=> make less garbage. For example, instead of buying juice
boxes for lunch, buy a large container of juice and use a washable
single serving container to take it to school.
=> buy items in refillable containers
• Use cloth bag/eco bag/paper bag/native baskets instead of plastic
bag, when you buy groceries.
• Avoid buying disposable items or single use products such as
batteries, razors, utensils, plates, cups etc.
• Reducing is important because they decrease the amount of waste
on the planet and preserve natural resources by maintaining space
and cutting down on landfills.
• Reduce consumption of new material and save energy.
• Recycle=> turn an item into another useful
item. For example, scrap paper from the
classroom might be turned into newspaper or
paper bags when sent to the recycling plant.
• Do not throw away used newspapers or used
writing pads. Sell them or bring them into
usable paper again.
• Use bottles, tin cans rubber tires can be
recycled into useful materials.
5R OF WASTE MANAGEMENT

• Reduce=> make less garbage.

• Recycle=> turn an item into another

useful item.
 RECYCLE REDUCE
How can I recycle at home? How can I reduce at home?
RECAP

• Direction: Identify whether the material is for

RECYCLE or for REDUCE.
______1. Native Basket
______2. Empty Bottle
______3. Paper
______4. Eco Bag
______5. Plastic
 REUSE

• Reuse – to use again or more than once.

• Reuse materials and items so that they have

longer life spans and don’t get thrown away
• Use both sides of paper and printing and re-use as scratch paper,
gift wrapper, etc.
• Consider the potential life span or durability when buying new
products.
• Buy durable food/storage containers and reuse them instead of
using foil, plastic bags/wrap.
• Materials that can be reuse are empty cans, bottle of all sizes, cups
plates, glasses, broken iron grills, wood parts of furniture,
medicine vials, cosmetic bottle, and trays.
• The importance of reuse is to prevent solid waste from entering
the landfill, improve our communities, and increase the materials.
WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT
HOME?
• Plastic bottle
• Plastic container
• Medicine vials
• Tires
• Old clothes
• Old toys
• Plastic
WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT THE
MARKET?
• Wrapper
• Plastic bottle
• Plastic
• Empty cans
• Vegetables
• Fruits peelings
• Candy wrappers
WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT
SCHOOL
• Plastic wrapper
• Cardboard
• Paper
• Plastic bottle
• Leaves
• Juice wrappers
• Candy wrappers
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

In your notebook

Differentiate REDUCE, RECYCLE, REUSE

TYPES OF RECYCLING

• Upcycling - make a higher quality material from its

original value

• Downcycling – converts waste materials into a new

product with lesser quality.
COMMON MATERIALS THAT CAN BE RECOVERED

•metals, paper, cardboard, asphalt

shingles, sheet rock, concrete,
lumber and other wood waste,
glass, electrical wire, plastics,
organics
RECOVER

• Recover => Any waste that can’t be reused,

recycled or avoided in the first place (i.e. reduced)
can be used to make heat and power using
incineration, anaerobic digestion or other
techniques. By recovering the energy left in our
rubbish we extract maximum value whilst landfill.

• Pyrolysis Is the process where garbage can be

converted into energy.
REPAIR

• Repair => have appliances, office equipment,

lighting fixtures, and automotive parts repaired
instead of buying new ones.
• Have an old furniture reupholstered or refurbished
instead of buying new ones.
• Direction: Identify the listed materials either they
can be RECOVER or REPAIR.
__________1. Wood table
__________2. Plastic
__________3. Concrete
__________4. Computer
__________5. Electric Fan
• Answer the following questions based on the activity you have done.
1. What material you have used?
___________________________
2. After recycling the material was it UPCYCLING OR DOWNCYCLING? Explain your
answer
___________________________
3. Was your material difficult to recycle? Explain you answer
___________________________
4. Did you enjoy recycling? Why?
___________________________
5. If your going to recycle a new material what would it be? Explain why have you
chosen that material.
___________________________