1. Talent 21 Recycle Project By Hunter Boney

2. My Rating  My rating on the textbook was a Conservation Star. I still need to work on riding my bike more places and recycle as much as I can to save the environment and not pollute the air.

3. 2-Liter bottle Recycling  There are so many ways that you can recycle a 2- liter bottle. One of those ways is to make a bird feeder.  Here’s how -  Step One – Cut two matching holes on either side of the bottle. Either circular or rectangular.  Step Two – Drill or punch holes underneath cut outs and insert dowel for perch through bottle.  Step Three – Drill small holes through neck and insert wire or string to hang from tree.  Fill bottom of bottle with bird seed.

4. Public Service Announcement

5. Differences In Our Environment  Differences you can make at home:  Turn off the television, lights and gaming system when you leave the room  Turn back thermostats  Differences you can make in school:  Recycle your used paper  Throw away plastic at lunch in specific bins  Differences you can make in the Community :  Organize groups to pick up trash along roads  Walk or ride bicycles to conserve gasoline

6. 3 R’s of Saving the Environment  The three R’s of saving the environment are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.  The fourth “R” I came up with was the word Refurbish which means to restore or renovate. We live in a disposable society where everything is thrown out and just replaced. Maybe if we refurbished more there would be less trash in the landfills.

7. Internet Questions Q - One ton of paper saves how many trees? A - 17 trees (recycling facts guide.com) Q - Recycling ½ of the worlds paper, how many acres of forest can be saved? A - 20 million acres (environment-green.com) Q - How many pounds of plastic are thrown out yearly by Americans? A - 35 billion pounds (students.arh.Utah.edu)