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What would happen if the planet was covered in rubbish?

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What would happen if the planet was covered in rubbish?

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If all of the planet was covered in rubbish there would be much more pollution. The waterways would be poisoned, which would effect our drinking water and our health. Plants and trees would suffer, the water they drink, which soaks through the ground would be contaminated. Everywhere would look yuck and it would absolutely stink. Have you seen the movie Wall-E

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Recycling is becoming more and more important. We only have a limited supply of natural resources on the planet. Natural resources are the stuff that we make our stuff out of. When we recycle something, we use and old thing to make a new thing, or part of a new thing. When we do this, we use less natural resources. Recycling means that we can continue to make new stuff for longer. It takes millions of years to make oil - the natural resource for plastic. There is only so much metal in the planet, once it's all been mined, we can't make any more.

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There are millions of tons of rubbish here on Planet Earth. Humans do a good job of hiding it. If we could see it then I'm sure we would make less of it. If you visit some countries, you can see lots of rubbish lying around on their streets. This causes more disease for humans and animals. It looks awful and it would stink. It's very importnant for us all to create as little rubbish as possible so we can avoid creating more place like this.

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This would be a very sad situation. Every living thing on Planet Earth needs water to survive. So, if the water ran out then everything would die. This is why we really need to look after the water that we have, it's very important.

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How do you know which is the recycle bin?

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How do you know which is the recycle bin?

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Usually bins are labeled with signs to tell people what to put in them. Have a look for the recycling triangle. This is often accompanied by a description and drawing of what to put in the bin. Remember that to recycle properly we need to separate, so often, there will be a bin for a paper and cardboard, another for plastics, another for metals and one for glass. It's a really good positive action to design some cool signs to go on all of your bins at home and school so everyone knows what needs to be put where.

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Trees are very important for us in our eco-system. They inhale carbon dioxide from the air through their leaves, when they photosynthesise, using the energy from the sun, they take absorb the carbon they have inhlaed and then they exhale oxygen. It is this oxygen that we use to breathe. In contrast, we exhale carbon dioxide which they then inhale.....it all goes round and round and round.

Plus, if we didn't have any trees, think of all the animals, birds, insects, reptiles and fish that wouldn't have anywhere to live. Our planet wouldn't look anywhere near as lush and gorgeous as it does now.

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Almost all of the energy that we use on Planet Earth comes from the sun. Without sunlight, plants would not be able to grow and we wouldn't have any food to eat. Sunlight is also responsible for the weather, it is this energy that drives the water cycle and heats the air in our atmosphere.

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What an awesome question Riley. My first thought would be Mother Nature. Compost is natures form of recycling and has been happening on Planet Earth for as long as things have grown here.

In terms of materials that are recycled, metals have have been remelted into new things, this would stretch back hundreds and hundreds of years.

In the UK during the early nineteenth century old books were being bought from auctions to use to make new paper.

The first aluminium can was invented by Bill Coors. See the link below for a cool picture of Bill and one of the first aluminium cans.

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What if there was tons of rubbish.

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what will happen if the earth was covered

in rubbish?

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how do you know which bin is the recycle bin

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who invented recycling

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what if we run out of tree's ?

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what if we did no recy

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what if there was no sun

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what if the water ran out