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Saving The Planet (STP)
http://www.earthhour.org
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The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a traditional light bulb for four hours. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Approximately 5 million tons of oil produced in the world each year ends up in the ocean.
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We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year. One-third of all water is used to flush the toilet. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year. (Mrs. Larsen)
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More than one third of all energy is used by people at home. (Mrs. Larsen)
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The garbage in a landfill stays for about 30 years. In 1995 over 200 of the world landfills were full. Each person throws away approximately four pounds of garbage every day. 84 percent of all household waste can be recycled. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Precycle, and teach your friends and family how to precycle, too! Remember the two P's Prevent and Precycle. It's the green thing to do! (Mrs. Larsen)
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Obviously, there are times when disposable items or buying in bulk are not as practical, such as traveling or picnics. The trick to all this is to limit. We can take responsibility by changing our daily habits. Pre-cycling may take a little more work in some cases, but an ounce of prevention is the main ingredient here!
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Read labels for ingredients. Stay away from chemicals that harm our plant and animal life and poison our land. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Buy items in cardboard, aluminum, steel, glass, and plastic containers marked 1 and 2 (they are stamped on the bottom). These containers can be recycled more easily. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Don't purchase Styrofoam-it contains polystyrene, which is the most difficult material to break down in our landfill and is considered a hazardous waste. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Buy long-life and concentrated items (batteries, bulks, etc.). This saves on packaging as well as product. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Buy less paper towels and napkins or none at all-use cloth ones! (Mrs. Larsen)
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Buy products packed in recycled packaging. If you have to use a container, it might as well be green. Additionally, you help support green corporations. (Important: make sure you look for the recycled symbol.)
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Buy Large Quantities. If you buy products in bulk or in large sizes and quantities, you can put them in smaller containers as you need them and this uses less containers. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Precycling: If you buy “long life” products (such as batteries and light bulbs) or “concentrated” products (such as juices or detergents) you not only prevent buying unnecessary packaging, but you prevent more products from ending up in a landfill! (Mrs. Larsen)
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Precycling: If you buy less disposable items or none at all (cloth napkins, towels and diapers instead of paper ones), you prevent more things from ending up in a landfill, and you don't use any packaging. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Precycling: Exactly what is precycling? “Pre” means “before” and “precycling” means we can “preventing recycling” by taking a little action before. How do you do that? It's easy. If you bring your own bags to the store with you, you not only prevent having to recycle additional bags, you recycle an existing bag. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Energy Saving Tips: Read books instead of watching TV or playing electronic games. Don't leave computers, televisions or other appliances on when not in use. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Energy Saving Tips: Use alternative sources of heat some of the time. Wear warm clothes and you can keep the thermostat lower. Don't put furniture or large objects such as toys in front of radiators. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Energy Saving Tips: Make sure all doors are closed tightly. Don't leave doors open longer than it takes to get in or out. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Gas Saving Tips: Combine errands and trips. Ask your folks not to idle for long periods of time. Don't use drive up windows...park and walk in. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Great Ideas for school: Keep a "craft box" of discards you think might be handy for class projects during the year...mark it "my craft box" so no one will mistake it for trash! Keep things like empty yogurt containers, elastics, string etc... that might be interesting and useful for your art.
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Great Ideas for school: Pack a cloth napkin instead of paper one. You can reuse it! Just count all your school days...that's how many paper napkins you saved. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Great Ideas for school: Take your lunch in a reusable lunch box or cloth bag instead of paper bags. Recycle any packaging in your lunch box.
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Don't throw it all away: Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins. Use cloth towels instead of paper towels. Buy recycled paper products whenever possible. Use paper instead of plastic.
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Don't throw it all away: When you no longer need a toy or clothing, give it away to someone who can use it, or have a yard sale with your family or friends. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Conserve and Preserve: Dress warm to use less heat; dress cool to use less air conditioning. Close doors and windows tight, so heat or air conditioning does not seep out. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Recycle and Reuse: Have your mom save coffee can and Styrofoam containers and donate them to school for crafts. Or Use them to make CRAFTY things for yourself or gifts.
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Recycle and Reuse: Make a compost pile with biodegradable garbage such as scraps from fruit and vegetables (remember no meat!). When it turns to compost, use it in a garden. Recycle water by reusing it to water plants. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Global Re-Leaf: Plant a tree or wildflowers; grow herbs indoors or out; save seeds from this year's flowers and plant them next year. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Things to do with paper and gift wrap:
Use it to cover and protect your schoolbooks. Use bags or newspaper particularly colorful comics, for gift wrap. Cut it in squares and use it to make origami. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Things to do with Styrofoam, cans, boxes or other containers:
Make containers and packaging for presents at Christmastime or birthdays, paint them or cover them, use the person's name in your design!
(Mrs. Larsen)
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Every year, the average cow belches 200 to 400 pounds of methane gas, a heat trapping gas that's been linked to global warming. Changes in the bovine diet might help. Since January, cows at 15 farms in placeStateVermont have had their feed adjusted to add more plants like alfalfa and flaxseed. These foods mimic grasses that cows evolved to eat, unlike corn or soy that most are fed today. Methane output of one herd has already dropped 18%. Methane is the 2nd most significant gas associated with global warming after carbon dioxide, which mostly comes from tailpipe emissions. (Mrs. Larsen)
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At lunch, teachers and students are encouraged to recycle. By recycling 90% of the waste that would otherwise go to a landfill, a single middle school could save $1,000 per year in landfill disposal costs. (Mrs. Larsen)
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At lunch, dispose of your gum in the trash, not on the ground or under your desk! The average American chews up to 190 sticks of gum each year. In all, those 57 billion sticks could add up to a gum patch four miles wide and six miles long. And, oh my, Cabrillo kids certainly have contributed to this gooey mess!
(Mrs. Larsen)
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At lunch, sandwiches, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and treats packed in reusable lunch containers are healthy alternatives to prepackaged foods. They can also be bought in larger quantities, saving money and packaging. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Use refillable pens. Pen refills cost as little as $1 each, priced almost the same as disposable ones. They are often tossed into the garbage and not recycled or reused. Their components and packaging are made from nonrenewable resources and can contain environmentally damaging chemicals. Every year, Americans discard 1.6 billion pens. Placed end to end, they would stretch more than 150,000 miles-equivalent to crossing the Pacific Ocean from CityLos Angeles to placeCityTokyo more than 25 times!
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Use pencils made from recycled material and those packed in light-weight or recyclable packaging. Pencils can be made from all sorts of things that would otherwise end up in our waste stream-like furniture, old money (WOW!!) and paper. Pencils account for about $121 million worth of purchases every year, and all could potentially be made from recycled materials.
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School supplies: Markers can contain harsh chemicals (they can “stink”), and toxic chemicals can leak into groundwater from landfills. It's better to use markers that are water based and have nontoxic ink with refillable heads. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Close the curtains when it's sunny in the summer and when it's cold in the winter, and you could reduce your energy needs by up to 25%. If every house in America kept the curtains closed for additional insulation, the total energy saved annually would be as much as the entire nation of Japan uses in a year. (Mrs. Larsen)
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If every American home changed out just five regular light fixtures or the bulbs in them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent ones, we'd keep more than one trillion pounds of green-house gasses out of our air-equal to the emissions of eight million cars. That's $6 billion in energy savings for Americans. (Mrs. Larsen)
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Change you light bulbs to compact fluorescent when the others burn out. You'll increase energy efficiency and light output, and because electricity production generates pollution, you'll also help promote cleaner air.
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If you want to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive, register with the Mail Preference Service. It costs a buck, but you can do it easily online at www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist.
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If all Americans recycled their junk mail, $370 million in landfill dumping fees could be saved each year.
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The average U.S. household receives1.5 trees' worth of junk mail each year, and many of these trees are thrown right into the trash. Remember to throw it into the recycle bin instead of the trash. You can even recycle plastic window envelopes.
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