A concerned Environmental Explorer can make a bid difference in keeping the environment clean. Ask your students to guess how many pounds of trash each person creates in a year. This will give your students an idea of what it would be like if we did not get rid of our garbage.
Most garbage is buried in landfills.
A landfill is an area that has been seta aside for burying trash. Some of the trash is burned in incinerators and a small percentage is recycled. Each person can help to reduce the amount of trash that is thrown away by learning to reuse and recycle materials. To recycle means to break down existing materials in order to use them again, e.g. making new newspapers from old newspapers. To reuse means to use something over again just the way it is.