1. You Can Make a Difference
by Going Green
By Carlos Román
Jose Sánchez
Abigail Rosado
2. What is recycling?
Recycling is the process of separating, collecting
and remanufacturing or converting used or
waste products into new materials.
3. By recycling:
• We help nature
• We help ourselves
• We help our future
But if we don’t…
the consequences would be awful.
4. Landfills filled with our garbage produce
a dangerous greenhouse gas called
methane, which contributes to global
warming.
By recycling we
can reduce
global warming.
5. Producing 40 aluminum cans requires
the energy equivalent of a gallon of
gasoline. Making aluminum from
recycled sources requires 95% less
energy than virgin-oil or glass
production.
Producing 40,000 tons of
plastic bottles requires
energy equivalent to 13
million gallons of
gasoline. Recycling a ton
of plastic bottles saves
approximately 74 gallons
of gas.
7. Thousands of sea turtles, fishes,
whales, and other marine mammals
and over 1 million sea birds die from:
ocean pollution, ingestion, or
entanglement.
8. -Plastic bags are confused with jellyfish
-Fish, birds and other marine animals die
from plastic entanglement
-Plastic toxins end up in fish, which later
end up in our plates
9. Marine debris accumulates in gyres- areas
of slow spiraling water and low winds.
5 major ocean gyres exist worldwide, the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch being the biggest
compared to the size of the state of Texas.
