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Care for Environment

In the Know

  • Recycled paper is used to make millions of other new things like - notebooks, paper lunch bags, stationary, and calendars.
  • Every tin can you recycle saves enough  energy to power a TV for up to 3 hours.  
  • Some recycled plastics are made into school  supplies and toys.
  • Planting and saving trees gives us healthy oxygen to breathe.
  • For every ton of paper that is recycled – more than 10 trees are saved for being cut down. 
  • Glass that is recyclable can be recycled forever and used over and over again.
  • Most paper can be recycled up to 8 times.
  • Recycling helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • It takes plastic water bottles thousands of years to decompose.   
  • Soda and water bottles that are recycled can sometimes be used to make baseball hats, rulers and the soft stuff in your pillows.    

 

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