Garbage

1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
195 million tons
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence. reduce the amount of trash made
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence. recycle our own materials
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence. to make something reusable
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage
is what a landfill is soley built for instead of the garbage traveling to the ocean
**Paper
is a recycleable material that we use daily
i**Landfils
contain a lot of trash that is over flowing which needs the extra space
**Recycling
is a process that should be implemented for everything
**Energy
is being used to run the recycling plants that we use daily