The+3+Rs

===Ever wonder how you can help save the planet because if you have **not** noticed global warming is true and getting worse.Like did you know that Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1,350 foot towers of the former World Trade Center. That is crazy. All glass is recyclable because it can always make more glass. So hears three ways you can help.===

throw it out or recycle it.
 * Reduce**--The first "R". This helps because it means you should use less of something so you have more for later.
 * Reuse**--The second "R".This helps because it means you should use something muliple times before you have to
 * Recycle**--The third and final "R". This helps because it means you should send in reuseable materials so they can be made into new materials.It also means to take the original form and change it into something else.

You can pretty much recycle anything except styrofoam. They say you can, but you really can't because it is 95% air and springy.Plus if you did decide to compress it, it would be hard to do. Also very time consuming.


 * Why you should recycle paper**:

1.) A ton of 100% non-recycled newspaper use about 12 trees. 2.) At least 38% of the U.S. waste stream is paper. 3.) Americans throw away 44 million newspapers everyday. That is like doping 500,000 trees into landfills each week. 4.) Paper recycling saves up to 70% of the energy needed to create paper from new timber.

1.) Every year we have enough plastic film to shirnk wrap Texas. 2.) Americans go through 2.5 million plastics bottles every year.
 * Why you should recycle plastic:**

1.)The average American throw out about 60 pounds of tin cans every month. 2.) By using recycled steel there is a 40% water savings.
 * Why you should recycle steel:**


 * It is better to recycle because it reduces energy usage.So instead of taking more of the original form you can recycle. Recycling will help us have more trees. In LaGrange, Countryside and Hodgkins you can recycle on Wednesdays (For some it is on Friday)**
 * DON'T FORGET REDUSE**[[image:Reuse.jpg width="228" height="169"]]**REUSE, and RECYCLE**.[[image:Res-Hall-recycle-logo.jpg width="165" height="155" align="left"]][[image:Duncan-Standing-Recycle-web.jpg width="165" height="219" align="right"]]

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/recycling [|http://www.emmet.mi.us] http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html