Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We have officially finished lockdown! WOOHOO! But that doesn't mean we can drive around town and visit friends because you can only make your bubble a little bigger and we are still told to stay at home. For this task, we had to watch a video around Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and then there was another one about the same thing. Then we had to write three paragraphs on why doing these things are important to you. What I found hard while making this post was trying to find good questions to start my paragraphs. Here is my post about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Have you ever wondered where your plastic waste goes? What it impacts?
The environment around you are the victims of the tons of rubbish lying
around our atmosphere. Here are a couple of reasons why I think reducing,
reusing and recycling are important.

Reduce

Do you normally have 20 minute showers? Because I know I do and shortening
our showers is one of the many ways to save the planet. Remember that time
when you spotted that delicious chocolate bar on the counter when you were
about to finish buying your groceries. What did you do? Grab it quickly for a
snack on the way home. Or did you see all that plastic on the wrapper and
decide that you didn’t need it. Many people choose the first option and that’s
not always the best option.

Reuse

Plastic bottles sitting beside the sink, straight into the rubbish bin for them.
KFC and McDonalds burger wrappers, chip packets and drink holders. Where
do they end up? In the bin, they couldn’t possibly be reused, could they? Did
you know that some of these things can be easily reused? Plastic bottles, for
instance, can be cleaned and then filled up again ready for another gym workout
or long journey.  Sometimes letting your imagination run free will help make
new creative inventions that are reused from other things

Recycle

Do you have three different bins at your house? A green one, a red one and a
yellow one? These are all used for different kinds of rubbish… like paper, glass,
grass cuttings, plastic, clothing and even tree branches. The yellow one is for all
the recyclable waste like plastic and paper, while the red one is used for general
waste like glass and clothing and the green one is used for environmental waste
like tree branches and grass cuttings. It’s so easy to just put everything in the
general waste bin, right? But most things can actually be recycled.

Now that you know the three R’s are you going to put more effort into saving
the planet. As Sir Edmund Hiliary once quoted: You don't have to be a fantastic
hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap,
sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.