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Buy Recycled! If you're not buying recycled, you're throwing it all away! By now most of us are recycling at home, work, school or away from home. Or are we? Recycling does not end once you have dropped off your cans, bottles and newspapers at the curb or nearest recycling center. You can purchase recycled products to help the environment!

A fun and educational reference to learn about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, to increase awareness and concern for the environment among school aged children. The hard fact of today's world is that global warming and deforestation are taking their toll on the health of our planet.

Taking care of the world around you may seem like a pretty big job. But keeping the environment healthy and clean is everyone's responsibility -- even kids! Young learners will see that one important way to help is to simply remember the three R's: reduce, reuse and recycle. Students learn that not all trash is created equal as we visit a recycling plant. Different kinds of pollution -- air, water and noise -- are explored, and the various causes behind them are revealed. Want to know what you can do to help eliminate waste and pollution? Environmental Health provides terrific tips for kids, families and communities to put those three R's in action! Part of the multivolume Health for Children Video Series. A teacher's guide is included and available online.

This is an example of PBL focusing on recycling

Five Lessons Teach Students to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Resource for students. Gives examples of what students can do to help reduce/recycle.

What can you do: There are many things we can do to help reduce air pollution and global warming. Use buses and trains instead of cars, as they can carry a lot more people in one journey. This cuts down the amount of pollution produced.

Waste is a problem. Fortunately there are things that we can all do about it. We call these the 3Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle.