1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle CAG Recycling!
What is Recycling: 7 Benefits of Recycling

2. What is Recycling? Reduce Reuse Recycle
What is Recycling? Whenever we try and define recycling, we need to think of the three r's of modern waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle.

3. Reduce! Decrease unnecessary and wasteful purchases
Decrease waste & pollutants
Conserve trees! Use notebook paper efficiently and reduce needless or excessive printing of paper
“Reduce" means: Decreasing unnecessary and wasteful purchases, decreasing the volume of waste, and decreasing pollutants.

4. Reuse! Take care of your stuff Repurpose Donate
Bring a reusable water bottle for drinking water at school
Make bottle bricks
"Reuse" means taking care of our things so that they can last longer, repurposing used items, donating or giving away unwanted stuff, and upcycling waste materials.

5. Buy Recycled Products made from recycled materials
Make it truly recycling
Close the loop
Buy Recycled: products made from recycled materials to complete the cycle or close the recycling loop.

6. Recycling Benefits: You Society The Environment
Recycling benefits you, society, and the environment.

7. Recycling Builds Community
People work together
Communicate
Share ideas
Support each other
Recycling Builds Community: People work together, Communicate, Share ideas, and Support each other when they're involved in a worthy common endeavor like recycling.

8. Recycling Helps Protect the Environment
Reduced contamination risk from landfills
Reduced pollution
Reduced environmental impact from mining or extracting fresh raw materials.
Recycling helps protect the Environment: Reduced contamination risk from landfills, Reduced pollution, Reduced environmental impact from mining or extracting fresh raw materials are all direct results of recycling.

9. Recycling is a Choice
The plastic bottle or paper scrap won’t recycle itself…
It’s up to YOU to make the choice to recycle.
What is recycling?
Recycling is a choice: The plastic bottle, paper scrap, or used cell phone wont recycle itself. Its up to YOU to make that choice to recycle.

10. Recycling is a Way of Life
Once you make the choice to recycle and stick to that choice everyday… Recycling becomes second nature – a way of life.
Recycling is a way of life: Once you make the choice to recycle, And stick to that choice everyday, Recycling becomes second nature - a way of life.

11. Let’s All Recycle Today!

12. Recycle! Recycle paper in designated boxes inside your classroom
Recycle plastic PET bottles in the yellow trashcans in the hallways

13. Bottle Bricks
Rinse out and refill your bottle with plastic trash to create a bottle brick

14. Bottle Schools
Right here in Guatemala, people are building schools using plastic bottles filled with plastic trash. This method saves Keep a bottle in your locker or backpack and fill it with as much plastic trash as possible. Turn finished bottle bricks into your homeroom teacher. *** Let’s see how many bottles we can fill this year! ***

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