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The document discusses the 3 R's approach to reducing waste: reduce, reuse, and recycle. It provides examples of how to reduce waste by buying in bulk and using reusable items. Reusing items such as giving unwanted items to charity and using containers multiple times. Recycling involves reprocessing materials like plastic bottles into new products.

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The document discusses the 3 R's approach to reducing waste: reduce, reuse, and recycle. It provides examples of how to reduce waste by buying in bulk and using reusable items. Reusing items such as giving unwanted items to charity and using containers multiple times. Recycling involves reprocessing materials like plastic bottles into new products.

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REFUSE- Learn to say NO!

no to produced wrapped in
plastics, say no to freebies and bargains, the more we
accept all those things that will inevitably end up in
landfills, the more we generate for those unsustainable
things.

RECOVER- is to convert waste into resources such as


REDUCE- reducing waste is the most important thing we electricity, heat compost and fuel through thermal and
can do. By reducing waste, we avoid the unnecessary use of biological means. The aim is to make the best use of the
resources such as materials, energy and water. It means there economic, environmental, and social cost of this materials
is less to damage before they are permanently laid to rest in a landfill.
How can we reduce waste?
Buy in bulk to reduce packaging, take a reusable shopping
bag with you so you don’t have to use plastic bag, choose
products that use less packaging and buy reusable items
than disposable.

Think GREEN!
REUSE- The next most important thing we can do is to
reuse waste material. The way it doesn’t go in rubbish and
end up in the landfill. It also means you don’t have to buy
new product. That saves you money, energy and resources
that would have been used to make new product.

How can we reuse waste?


Give unwanted toys and books to hospitals or schools, use
plastic containers for freezing or storing food items, save
wrapping paper and boxes to use again and take household
items to your council’s recovery center.

RECYCLE- recycling involves some form of reprocessing of


waste material to produce another product, for example
recycling plastic bottles to make buckets

What can be recycled? Elaiza Marie R. Denolong


The main product that can be recycled are paper, cardboards,
glass, aluminum, tin and plastic containers. Composing and Sarah Nicole Villareal
worm farms are methods of recycling organic waste. HUMSS XI- ENOCH
Different districts collect different recyclables and at their
transfer stations.

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