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    Save the World: Preserving the Balance

    10/14/10

    By Susan Yu

    Period 5

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    What is recycling?

    To reuse or make into something new to

    use

    To sort, organize, separate different

    collections of materials and remake into

    something new

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    What can we recycle?

    Glass, paper, aluminum, and some types ofplastic.

    Anything with a symbol of recycling on it

    Anything we use again that is necessary

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    Where do recyclables go after

    recycling them?

    After putting recyclables in the recycling

    bins ,trash collectors take them to bemanufacturing companies and are sorted

    by people, and then go into machines

    where the items can be reused again

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    What is composting?

    The process of allowing organic

    matter like leaves, plants, food tobreak down into soil

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    What can we compost?

    Dry leaves, dead plants, fruit and

    vegetable scraps, egg shells, teabags, almost anything once living

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    How do we use compost?

    By piling up organic matter

    usually in wooden containers

    outside

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    What happens to the compost?

    Anarobic bacteria comes and heats

    up and converts the matter in 90

    days

    Airobic bacteria and worms that take

    30 to 45 days

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    Why is it important to recycle?

    It helps cut down pollution

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    Reduces global warming by

    saving energy in industrial

    productions from factories and

    manufacturing companies

    through recycling

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    Help reduce the amount of waste

    in landfills

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    Why is it important to compost?

    Creating strong healthy plantsand flowers

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    Improves texture

    Add important nutrients to soil

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    Waste

    H

    elps reduce waste

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    Comparison

    Recycling and composting are the

    same because they are both direct

    ways of helping our environment to

    be safer and cleaner to live on

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    Difference

    Recycling helps people to reusecontainers for our food and reuse themto stop landfills

    Composting helps people to reuse mostof our leftover food resources to makecompost for our crops and gardens to

    grow more food over and over again

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    Work cited:

    TheC

    ity of TorontosC

    ompost Provision Program. 2010.C

    ityof Toronto. 11 October 2010.

    http://www.toronto.ca/compost/compost_provision.htm

    Home Composting and Bins. 2009. Central Contra Costa Solid

    Waste Authority. 11 October 2010.

    http://www.wastediversion.org/app_pages/view/58

    Why is Recycling Important?. 2010. Avenstar Productions. 12

    October 2010. http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/sourceinformation.html