April is Earth day

How to help our planet? For the month of April, as a class, we will list ideas of how to make our planet cleaner and ways to help plants. For extra credit,you will need to write a one page essay on how you helped the environment and give an example. Have your parents sign it and turn it to me no later than may 2,2010. Recycling is a GREAT way to start.

Here is an idea of recycling
Do you ever wonder where all of our glass, plastic and paper go after we sort them for recycling? Here’s a simple breakdown of how each material is processed and reused.

Glass
Glass bottles and jars are taken to a glass recycling depot where they are crushed into little bits, mixed with sand and other materials, and melted in a really hot furnace. Molten glass looks a lot like lava from a volcano. It is then poured into molds and shaped into new objects.

Plastic
Plastic bottles are ground up and shaped into small pellets. These pellets can be melted and made into all sorts of things, including new containers, drainpipes and car bumpers. Shredded pop bottles can even be used as fluffy filling for pillows, sleeping bags, quilts and jackets!

Paper
Newspaper is cleaned and reshaped into egg cartons, boxboard and ceiling insulation. Regular printer paper is cleaned, mixed with new wood pulp and rolled into paper. Other products that can be made from recycled paper include bathroom tissue, cardboard tubes and boxes.