Respect our Resources

Another good reason to recycle: it helps protect the land, air, and water by helping us conserve natural resources.

Eco-Words to Know:

Natural resource: A material source of wealth occurring in a natural state. So think trees, water, solar energy, air.

Conservation: To protect from loss or depletion; to use carefully, avoiding waste.
(Source: Webster’s II New College Dictionary, 1999)

Resources come in two types: Renewable and Nonrenewable.

• Renewable means that we can make or grow more. Example: Trees. We use trees to make paper and lumber. We can plant more trees to make more paper and wood products.

• Nonrenewable means that after we have used up all of a resource, there will be no more. Example: Coal, petroleum, natural gas.

"Recycling is important because:
• It uses nonrenewable
resources again
• It saves trees
• It helps the environment"