Activity Overview: Recycling is making a material ready for reuse in a new form. Reusing is when you find another purpose for an already existing object. For example, when you use an empty glass jar as a drinking glass, that is reuse.
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Plastic is everywhere. It is the cup that we drink out of, the straw in our drink and the chair that you sit on. Plastic can be very useful and important but it comes in many forms. Some of those forms are used often and for many years, while others are used only once and disposed of.
Many types of plastic are recyclable, while other soft forms of plastic are not.
Some forms of plastic are used temporarily and disposed of after only one use. While most of these are not recyclable, there are strategies to be resourceful with how you use these items.
More than three-quarters of all plastic ends up in landfills, where it can take between decades and hundreds of years to degrade. When plastic is littered, instead of being discarded correctly, it can also end up in the ocean, affecting marine life. When plastic is recycled it can be reused, saving materials, energy, money and the environment.
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