You Can Make a Difference by Going Green

By Carlos RománJose Sánchez

Abigail Rosado

What is recycling?

Recycling is the process of separating, collecting and remanufacturing or converting used or waste products into new materials.

By recycling:

• We help nature

• We help ourselves

• We help our future

But if we don’t…the consequences would be awful.

Landfills filled with our garbage produce a dangerous greenhouse gas called methane, which contributes to global warming.

By recycling we can reduce global warming.

Producing 40 aluminum cans requires the energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline. Making aluminum from recycled sources requires 95% less energy than virgin-oil or glass production.

Producing 40,000 tons of plastic bottles requires energy equivalent to 13 million gallons of gasoline. Recycling a ton of plastic bottles saves approximately 74 gallons of gas.

Plastic is the main component of Marine Debris

Thousands of sea turtles, fishes,whales, and other marine mammalsand over 1 million sea birds die from:ocean pollution, ingestion, orentanglement.

-Plastic bags are confused with jellyfish

-Fish, birds and other marine animals die from plastic entanglement

-Plastic toxins end up in fish, which later end up in our plates

Marine debris accumulates in gyres- areas of slow spiraling water and low winds.

5 major ocean gyres exist worldwide, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch being the biggest compared to the size of the state of Texas.

By recycling we can save:

And these guys!

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