Hey Everyone,
It’s me – Salley. Today I want to talk to you about reusing. Reusing is another thing we can do to help out the environment. When you reuse something, you use it again.
For instance, I noticed that Stoogles always brought his sandwich in a plastic bag. I asked him why he didn’t just invest in a sandwich container that he could use over and over again. He said that was a great idea! Now, he reuses it each day at lunch.
When school started in September, I still had my binders from last year. They were looking pretty rough, though. Instead of buying new ones, I decided to recover my old ones with fabric and decorate them with fabric pens – and they’re gorgeous! Instead of buying new, I just reused what I had.
Do you have any good examples of reusing, friends?
Yes I do Salley! I even do it myself! Reusing water bottles saves water
did you know the garbage in a landfill stays for about 30 years? Thats a long time! in 1995 over 200 of the world landfills were full. Each person throws away approximately four pounds of garbage every day? One bus carries as many people as 40 cars!
More than 1/3 of all energy is used by people at home
Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year
We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year :) Hope you like my facts!