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Littering: Dangerous and Harmful

Littering: Dangerous and Harmful. By: Mayra Herrera Gaby Villarreal. Outline. I. Introduction: Littering affects all humanity and life. A. How littering affects wildlife B. How littering affects humanity II Background Information: The facts and statistics of littering.

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Littering: Dangerous and Harmful

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  1. Littering: Dangerous and Harmful By: Mayra Herrera Gaby Villarreal

  2. Outline • I. Introduction: Littering affects all humanity and life. • A. How littering affects wildlife • B. How littering affects humanity • II Background Information: The facts and statistics of littering. • A. The United States is the most wasteful country in the planet. • B. The “reuse and recycle” solution is the most economical. • III. New Information: Littering affects our environment in many aspects. • A. Littering of plastic (bags) • B. Wildlife • C. Landfills • D. Recycling • IV. Conclusion: If we join in the effort to stop littering the whole world will benefit. • A. Educate our children. • B. Promote recycling.

  3. How Littering Affects Wildlife Animals • Plastic bags is the number one killer of wildlife animals. • Plastic bags do not readily break down in the environment, it takes them 20-1000 years to decompose. • Plastic bags can become serial killers for animals. • Plastic Bags suffocate animals mistaking the bag for food.

  4. Please No More!

  5. Things you can do to avoid harming wildlife: • Use non-toxic products on your lawn and garden. • Motor oil should not be left in oil pans unattended. Birds often fall into these pans and few survive. • Pick up litter and refuse that could harm wildlife, including six-pack connectors, fishing nets as such may cause entanglement.

  6. Littering Affects Humanity • Introduces health concerns that may result in illness and injuries • Decreases the value of properties that contain trash • Attracts crime." It's safe to dump here, it’s safe to do illegal activities here”. • Decreases community worth, with further impacts of the social aspects of an area. • Takes away tax dollars that could be better spend to serve the community. • Spoils the beauty of our lands.

  7. Don’t Be a Litter Bug!

  8. Background Information • The U.S. is the most wasteful country in the planet • There are more the 6 billion people in the world and growing Yet, 80% of this population litters daily.

  9. “Reuse and Recycle”

  10. If everyone recycled only their Sunday newspaper 500,000 trees would be saved .

  11. Littering Affects Our Environment in Many Ways • Plastics bags come from the mall, convenient stores, super markets and unfortunately end up in our streets, rivers, and all over our community. • Littering of plastic clogs up street drains. • Instead of discarding plastic bags they can be use to line trash bins, or carry various objects. • The problem is not whether people choose paper over plastic bags, but what is to become of the bag once it gets home ……….. If it ever makes it home!

  12. Litter Clogs Drainages

  13. Litter along our Rio Grande River

  14. Fish up the Trash!

  15. City Of Laredo Solid Waste Division

  16. “The Landfill” • The Laredo landfill accepts over 1,000 tons of garbage a day and is open 360 days a year. • This is an average of more than 360,000 tons of garbage a year. • The landfill is an engineer waste disposal system used to bury refuse in environmentally safe way. The area has a special liner that contains the garbage and liquids with the area called a cell. Each cell has a liquid collection system which pumps all liquid produced to a tank. • The landfill also has a methane gas collection system that collects the gas produced by the garbage and burns it through a flare system.

  17. “Landfills” • Customer service quote: “It is the department’s outreach, improving how we service Laredo’s residents, that would help people think differently about their garbage collection needs and recycling efforts, and will ultimately, help keep Laredo clean.” Oscar Medina (DOP)

  18. “Recycling”

  19. “Recycle” • Most items are recyclable. • Aluminum • Paper • Glass • Plastic • Steel

  20. Put Trash in its Place

  21. Recycling Crayons Experiment • Materials: Old Crayons • Paper Cupcake Liners Soup Can Saucepan • Parental Supervision Is Needed At All Times!

  22. Recycling Crayons

  23. Work Cited • Carlson, Laurie. EcoArt. Williamson Publishing. Charlotte Vt. 1993. • Martin, Sam. 2001. Recycle This Article: America's Garbage Dilemma comes around. Wilson Web Magazine. 183:58- 62.

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