39 L4-Why we Recycle

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Oxford Read and Discover level 4 Why We Recycle by Fiona Undrill

Introduction We all make a lot of waste. There's waste from our homes, factories, offices, and schools. We recycle a lot of our waste materials, but we should recycle more. Do you know why? What do you throw away? What is your waste made of? What waste materials do you recycle? Discover! Now read and discover more about why we recycle waste!

Chapter 1 Too Much Waste In some countries, one person can make about 5 kilograms of waste every day! Where does all this waste go? Most waste goes to a landfill. At a landfill, people put the waste under the ground. Landfills are very big because we make so much waste. Most waste materials decompose they break down into very small pieces. Food waste decomposes fast, but some waste materials decompose slowly. Paper materials take from two to five months to decompose, some metal materials take from 80 to 100 years, and plastic materials take maybe up to 1,000 years. Some materials, like glass, never decompose. We are making more and more waste. We need more landfills, but there's no more land on Earth for landfills. Our waste stays in landfills for too long, and this is bad for Earth. So we should make less waste we should recycle more things. Discover! Around the world, people make up to 4 billion metric tons of waste every year.

Chapter 2 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle We should put less waste in landfills. We can help to do this when we reduce, reuse, and recycle our waste. When we reduce our waste, we make less waste. We can help to do this when we only buy things that we really need. We can also borrow things, or fix things when they break. When we don't buy so many things, we reduce waste. When we reuse something, we use it again. When we buy a bottle of water, we can put more water in the bottle when we finish it we don't need to buy a new bottle. Discover! We should reuse our plastic bags. Around the world, people use about one million plastic bags every day we usually use one bag for only about 12 minutes! When we recycle something, we use it to make something new. We can recycle most glass, paper, and metal. We can recycle some plastic. We can recycle things to make more of the same thing, for example, we can recycle paper to make new paper. We can also make something different, like this radio that's made of recycled metal.

Chapter 3 What Can We Recycle? We can recycle most things— clothes, shoes, phones, computers, televisions, cars, cans, paper, bottles, and batteries. There are a few things that we can't recycle— but not many! We can recycle most paper and card to make new paper. We can recycle metal from many different things, like cans, cars, and computers. It's hard to get new metal, so it's good to recycle old metal. We can recycle most types of glass. It's good to sort the glass into different colors green, brown, and clear glass. Factories can only make new clear glass when 99% of the recycled glass is clear. There's a recycling symbol on a lot of the things that we can recycle. There's sometimes a symbol on the things that we can't recycle. We have to recycle different types of plastic in different ways. The recycling symbols on plastic help people to sort the different types of plastic.