Recycle Symbol

This symbol can be found on many household items. Look ahead to locate

items with this symbol.

Household Items

Why Recycle?

• Each American creates about 4 pounds of garbage daily.

• 70% of all garbage can be recycled.• 100 million trees are cut down each year to

make paper for “junk” mail.• Every Sunday, 500,000 trees could be saved if

everyone recycled their newspapers.• Americans throw away enough plates & cups

to have the world a picnic 6 times a year.

Keeping Our State Beautiful

How can you helpkeep our state

beautiful?

Do you think this is beautiful?

Where does garbage go?

• First, we put it in our trash can.• Then a truck picks it up from the street and

takes it away.• The truck takes the garbage to a place called a

landfill.

Landfill• A landfill is a big hole in the ground that is full

of garbage.• It can be deeper than a four story building and

as large as 135 baseball fields!• There are 127 solid waste landfills in Alabama.