Paper+or+Plastic

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by Gracie Estrella, Madison Harada, & Jenna Rankinen

How much do you know about recycling? Comprehend this information, so that you can use it to help make our world a better place!

Did you know instead of using paper or plastic disposable bags, you should use reusable ones! You can buy these at most of your local grocery stores. It takes less energy to process recycled material than it does to use untouched materials. Can you believe that about 75% of water used in our homes is used in the bathroom? Try to cut back by taking a shower rather than a bath every day. One gallon of used motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of water.

There is an upside to all of this recycling information. For instance, San Francisco was the first city in our nation to outlaw non-recyclable plastic bags from the use of supermarkets.

Some students here at Rommelt Middle School have different opinions about our school recycling. Nora Deibler understands that we should recycle extra papers that we don’t really need for anything and try to cut down on the paper use. Caroline Engel agrees by saying, “I think we should try to recycle and do better for the earth.” Rachel Kita suggests that we should use less paper and save more money and buy cool things and have more money for field trips! Gabby Gardner agrees with Rachel’s conclusion.

Due to the concerns of some of the students, our school is now going? “ green. ”  Help out by placing empty water bottles or tin cans into the recycling bins located outside the cafeteria. Help out now!

 Please check out our Recycling Wordle we created.

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Other countries recycle, too, to help our earth. As an example, here are some pictures of the U.S.A. and other country’s recycling bins.




 * __East Auckland __**



**__Triangular recycling bins in Germany __**



**__‘PartnerBins’ in Maryland, USA

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