How can recycling and saving energy reduce wasting our natural sources?
by recycling, you are using old products e.g. paper, to make new paper, and hence eliminating the need to cut down new natural resource i.e. tree to make the paper…recycling plastic therefore means you are eliminating the need to extract oil from the earth. the situation is similar with saving energy…a lot of electricity is generated from burning non-renewable resources e.g. coal…by using less energy, we need to produce less electricity, so less coal is extracted from the earth. not sure if you are in the uk or not, have a look at the following site – www.communityecochallenge.com (uk based info and stats) it is for a project i used to work on, which helped people reduce their ecological footprint…it has info on recycling and how it helps the environment, as well as energy saving and the environment. hope this helps. it is maybe too simple an explanation for what you require, but i teach this stuff to community groups and children, and usually the straightforward approach is be
