Hi all
Sorry to talk trash but it’s time to recycle this important topic…
Ice breakers:
- Do you recycle at home?
- Do you think companies do enough to help the environment?
- Is it really worth all this effort to recycle?
- Why recycle – It all just goes into a land fill abroad anyway doesn’t it?
The Countries Winning The Recycling Race
https://www.statista.com/chart/4470/the-countries-winning-the-recycling-race/
See chart, Germany at 65% to New Zealand 0%
We didn’t have the “Green Thing” back in my day!
Thanks goodness we woke up to the needs of our environment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guatemala entrepreneurs do what U.S. cities can’t
https://www.perc.org/articles/recyclinga-success-story
Guatemalan entrepreneurs are competing for sources of recyclable materials
Some interesting facts!
- At one time, aluminium was more valuable than gold!
- To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down
- Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator
- We throw away 1.6 million untouched bananas every day
- Every year 18 million tonnes of waste is landfilled in UK sites
Pop quiz, what else could they be saying? A prize for the best answer…(judge’s decision is final)