YOUR ASSIGNMENT

After air, water, or land becomes polluted, it becomes more difficult, expensive, and sometimes impossible to clean up. Conservation is an important step towards creating a better, healthier, more sustainable environment, and it is important to remember that conservation does not just start with recycling. Here are ways in which you can do your part to make this world more environmentally friendly by living according the three R’s. http://envirohealthhouston.org/resources/RRR.htm

Every year, Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar and can covers. More than 30% of our waste is packaging materials. Where does it all go? Some 85% of our garbage is sent to a dump, or landfill, where it can take from 100 to 400 years for things like cloth and aluminum to decompose. Glass has been found in perfect condition after 4,000 years in the earth!

We are quickly running out of space. It's time to learn the three R's of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. Then practice what you preach: don't buy things you don't need or items that come in wasteful packaging or that cannot be recycled. Reuse and recycle whatever you can.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Your assignment this week is to talk about The Three Rs of The Environment. There are SEVEN TOPICS below. You should pick one person to give a speech from a part of each topic. As an option, you can assign TWO people to the “In The News” topic, and then one person to the “Clean Coal” topic.

• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Earth-Altering Accidents
• Perils of Pollution
• What Americans Throw Away

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