Read the text "Why should we recycle at home?"
Did you know that we could recycle 60% of the rubbish that is in our landfills? Well, it’s true. Read this poster and learn some interesting facts about recycling. It takes 70% less energy to make paper from recycled materials than from trees. Recycling paper saves hundreds of trees a month.
We use about 15 million plastic bottles a day. Plastic can take up to 500 years to break down.
We can use glass as many times as we want. One recycled glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. We throw away about 50 million tonnes of aluminium a year.
One recycled aluminium container can save enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.
Write true, false, doesn’t say:
1. We use about 15 million glass bottles a day.
2. One recycled glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 45 minutes.
3. We throw away about 30 million tonnes of aluminium a year.