Daily Idea #316: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

To round out our week of celebrating the earth we are going over the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The first thing we are going to do for today’s daily idea is to come up with ways of reducing our carbon footprint. I am going to let my kids come up with various ways they can help— turning off the water while brushing teeth, turning off lights when you leave a room, knowing what is trash/recycle, etc…

Then I am going to collect a few items from around the house; scrap paper pieces, plastic bottle tops or food pouch tops, baggies (both plastic and reusable), etc… and we are going to decide if we should reuse these items or recycle them.

Once they are sorted, we will put the recycled materials into our green topped trash (the trash cans are different colors based on where you live) and then I am putting my children to task to see if they can create something new with the materials they have sorted into the reuse pile.