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From the reading I realized that we as humans show no signs of care for our earth and we need to start caring! Mercia

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Waste of energy has always been a bad habit for humans. We never use resources to their full potential status.

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Waste disposal has been around for many years. The waste disposal comes in two main types: source reduction and recycling.

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Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60 percent of the energy needed to make paper from new materials.

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Kevin's truck DOESNT get STUCK.

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I recycle soda cans because it is good for the environment.

- On average, 10-15% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ultimately ends up as garbage.

- Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.

- It costs about $30 per ton to recycle garbage, $50 to transport it to a landfill, and $70 to incinerate it.

- Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. jobs and $37 billion in annual payrolls.

- The average household throws away 13,000 pieces of paper every year which is mostly junk mail and packaging.

- Yard trimmings make up 20% of the solid waste in US.  Less than one quarter of this amount is recovered for composting.

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1. Over 75% of waste is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.

2. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour.

3. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.

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Energy savings

Aluminum 95%

Copper 85%

Plastic 80%

Paper 70%

Steel 74%

Rubber 69%

Lead 65%

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One ton of recycled paper saves seventeen trees

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Why does Curtis like to get his truck stuck

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Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4000 kilowatt hours of electricity.  This is enough energy to power the average American home for 5 months.

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I recycle every week or twice a week for no money. But it also has saved money because we are no longer paying for garbage to be picked up.

Around 30$ a month is spent per house on trash collection.

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Where is the majority of trash actually recycled

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I recycle but I don't take it to the recycling plant.

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I mustache U 2 ♻️ Please. Be a Ruth!

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I recycle every week.

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I recycle because I believe that it is our duty to reuse what we use in the environment in order to preserve our world.

Over 75% of waste is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.

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I take cans to the scrapyard In order to recycle and get money for it

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Can't drive

Don't know were the recycling plant is

Am not authorized to make decisions

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I have taken eight oil barrels full of cans the rear end of Curtis' truck and a lot of misc steel and iron sitting in the weeds behind my house and I made around three hundred dollars

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Recycling is cool, 'Mercia

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Saving the earth, one can at a time

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Pick One of the Following Recycling Topics to Research

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Pick One of the Following Recycling Topics to Research

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http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Source Reduction Pages 14-16

Introduction to Recycling Pages 18-21

Recycling Plastics Pages 22-25

Recycling Metals Pages 26-28

Recycling Paper and Glass Pages 29-32

Waste to Energy Pages 33-36

Landfilling Pages 37+41

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http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Follow the instructions on page 13/

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http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Summarize your reading of pages 10-12 with a gist(exactly 20 words).

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http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/Museum%20of%20Solid%20Waste%20&%20Energy.pdf

Read Pages 10-12

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http://www.consumersenergy.com/uploadedFiles/CEWEB/SHARED/more-100-ways-save-on-bill12-06.pdf

Take the survey below.

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Write some questions you may have about recycling or give some interesting facts.