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=**//As Students How Can We Reduce Our Ecological Footprint On Our Local Environment?//**=

Proposal

In order to reduce my ecological footprint I intend to recycle cans, bags, paper and plastic so we can save the people and the planet. What you do can make a diference in life, and somehow we can tell and show the people in charge that don't care to save us and the planet from pollution.

//TALENT 21 PROJECT DUE MAY 20 2011//. Research and Experement

__Science__ Litter, litter, everywhere and nary a piece gets recycled. Why? It seems pretty simple to put litter back into the recycling loop and that's just what the Nicodemus Wilderness Project does after a cleanup. The majority of the litter that we collect during our trail cleanups is recyclable. There are lots of glass bottles, paper products, plastics, and aluminum cans littering our wild lands and waters. Removing this litter from the shoreline, mountains, and other wilderness areas prevents wildlife injury and restores the natural beauty of our environment. Recycling this litter elevates the effort an extra step by ensuring this trash stays out of the landfill. At the Nicodemus Wilderness Project, we've even reused some of this litter to make jewelry and other items.

We are part of the problem but can become part of the solution. Humans generate a staggering amount of trash every day. Disposable products are some of the prime culprits and can be easily avoided in favor of products that require less or no packaging. The packaging of products is what ends up on the beaches, in the mountain streams, and underneath the aspen groves. These bottles, cans, wrappers etc. spoil the outdoor experience for people and often pose health and safety risks for wildlife. Its important to keep this litter out of our wilderness areas but equally important to reduce our dependence on these packages. Remember, its 1) **R**educe, 2) **R**euse, and 3) **R**ecycle (in that order)! Help make the Earth a cleaner and more beautiful place by living by the **three R's**. S__.S __ __!!!!!!!!!!!!Who, What ,Where, When, Why, How!!!!!!!!!!!! __

The truth is that advent of recycling cannot be attributed to any one person. Some have argued that recycling was established from necessity. Around 10,000 BCE, garbage became an issue as humans established permanent settlements. Thousands of years later (approximately 400 BCE), the first municipal dump was established in Athens, Greece. Romans created the first sanitation force around 200 CE, which was made up of two men who walked the city streets loading garbage into a wagon. It wasn’t until 1388 that the English Parliament declared it unlawful to dispose of waste in public streets. Over time, numerous products have been invented -- as we have become more technologically-advanced) -- that ultimately serve to drain and pollute the environment. Paper, plastics and metals are the three main recycling categories. These also happen to be the source of most of the non-chemical pollution on earth. Recycling came into play around 1690 when the Rittenhouse family of Philadelphia established the first paper recycling mill on the Wissahickon Creek. Metal was not recycled in America occurred in 1776, when patriots in New York City melted a statue of King George III to make bullets. Incineration of collected trash began in Nottingham, England in 1874. The United State’s first incinerator was put into use on Governors Island in New York Harbor in 1885. Soon after, in 1897, New York’s first recycling center is established.

Spanish

  __Como estudiantes, Como podemos reduir nuestra huells ecologica en naestro ____entorno ____ local ____? __

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