2. Prompt 2.18.15  Choose between the following to answer:  1. Does your family recycle? If so, what?  2. What can you tell me about Mt. Everest?  http://youtu.be/rxgWHzMvXOY?t=16s http://youtu.be/rxgWHzMvXOY?t=16s

3. Talking Trash Recycling and taking care of the Earth

4. How much trash do you make?  Bea Johnson’s family  Per year  1 quart jar  Average American adult  5 lbs. a day  * 7.1 lbs. Edward Hume Garbology 2012

5. An American Annual Waste Sampler from Garbology  19 billion Styrofoam peanuts  35 billion plastic bottles  40 billion plastic utensils  4.5 million tons office paper  28 billion pounds of food or 25% of the American food supply

6. Bottled Water  In 2010, Americans spent $11 billion on bottled water.  We throw away 60 million water bottles a day.  Bottled water is the same quality as tap water.  Fill a reusable water bottle from the tap.

7. Mt. Everest  The Nepal government has decreed that all climbers must bring back 18 pounds of trash

8. Romanian Example

9. Where does our trash go?

11. How much is Recycled

12. What can be recycled?  Plastic - any Bottle or Jug  Glass – any bottle or jar  Metal - Aluminum and Steel Cans  Paper—any type of paper except coated

13. 5 R’s—In this order  Refuse: say no to extra things  Reduce: use less, avoid packaging  Reuse: Find additional uses for things  Recycle: Send it back to a recycling center  Rot: compost it!

14. Refuse  Say No.

15. Reduce  Use less, i.e. toothpaste  Make your own/DIY

16. Reuse

18. Recycled products

19. Recycled Products

20. Rot  Compost it in a pile or composter

21. With your partner(s)discuss the following.  Why is the order important? Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, rot  What are some ways you have or can Refuse?  What are some ways to reduce your trash output?  List some items that can be reused.  What new things can you recycle?  What can you compost?

22. The “green” t-shirt give away  Discuss with your partner, how you can apply “Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot” to the free t-shirt give away.  The scenario: Your family is attending a benefit concert about going green. They have free t-shirts for everyone.

23. Review ?s  What are the 5 Rs?  What are 2 things you are going to do?