Recycling

 <- Packaging with this symbol or the codes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 can be recycled.

Mobile Musters Mobile Musters are a company that collect old or broken Mobile and turn them into new ones

The E.L.F.S. are dedicated to reducing rubbish! At our school we have recycling bins and try to educate the students how to use them.


 * Ever wondered what to do with old car batteries, computers, mobile phones and other household items that you don't want anymore? Well don't throw them away, go to the website below to find out where to recycle near you. **[|Recycling Near You]

** If you are going to throw away your old clothes, think twice! Maybe you can give it to your younger brother/sister, younger cousin or someone that is smaller than you? **

**What you need ** : ​** e ** ** mpty tissue box, different thicknessess of elastic bands, toilet roll, paint, strips of coloured paper and glue. ** **Instructions: ** ​**1.** After you have used up the toilet paper, keep the roll. This will become the top of the guitar. __// **Maybe you can make your own recyclable creation?** //__
 * If you are bored and have nothing to do, try out this fun recycling activity: **
 * 2.** Find a tissue box and different sized elastic bands.
 * 3.** Glue the toilet paper roll to the top of the tissue box.
 * 4.** Paint the guitar in any colours you like or glue strips of colour paper on the tissue box.
 * 5.** Finally place the elastic bands around the tissue box after the paint and glue has dried. Make sure the elastic bands go in order of size. Start with the thickest band and end with the thinest.
 * 6.** Now you can start playing your guitar made from recyclable materials!

//**Why should we recycle at home?** // Recycling is a way to re-use our natural resources like trees and save them for the future. It also cuts down on electricity which cuts down on Greenhouse Waste and other natural resouces like water which we have very little of in Australia. Making recycled paper uses 50% less energy and 90% less water than if you make it straight from a tree (it also includes less cutting down of the trees), recycling PET bottles saves 84% of the energy it takes to make a bottle from raw materials, recycling glass ses 74% less energy than if you make it from raw materials and recycling aluminium for aluminium cans saves 95% of the energy used for making cans from bauxite (which comes from the earth therefore damaging the earth of some way. If we use too much it might run out and we won't have it for the future to make other cans and worse, it affects our precious Earth). Recycling is one of the simplest things we can do to reduce our impact on the environment. Even recycling six aluminium cans saves enough energy to fuel a 10km car trip and one vending cup can make a full length pencil. Now isn't that a good reason to recycle?

**Take your plastic bags to your local supermarket for recycling. Keep them out of your home recycling because plastic bags can cause big problems when placed in your normal recycling bin. For safety reasons, staff that works at the recycling centres will not open plastic bags because the contents could be dangerous or dirty. The plastic bags are sent to landfill instead. Bags also interfere with the automatic sorting machines and can bring the entire sorting machine to a halt. To avoid these problems simply put your recyclable items straight into the recycling bin and buy green bags instead.**  Check out this website to learn more about recycling policies in Australia: [|Recycling and Waste]

Everyone in Park Ridge have done a fantastic job cleaning our school on "Green Up, Clean Up" Day. We have raised over $950 & it was an outstanding effort from everybody. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Check out this website: You can make your very own little recyclable 'Tin Can Herb Garden': <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|How To Make Your Own Herb Garden.]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|click here] to learn more about recycling from the [|Visy Environmaniacs] website.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Recycling Facts:**


 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">By recycling one tonne of paper you save 13 trees, 2.5 barrels of oil, 4100kWh of electricity, 4 cubic metres of landfill and 31,780 litres of water
 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">In 2007 Australian's recycled over two billion newspapers, making us the best newspaper recyclers in the world
 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Australia produces over 3.3 million tonnes of packaging each year
 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags a year and dump 429,000 into landfills every minute




 * // Do your bit to save the environment by recycling! ☺ //**