The 5 R's

Environmental awareness is one of the issues that as teachers we must begin to do. We must teach our students the different and better ways to help the planet, and that the smallest change that we do to protect our environment that really make the difference.

One way, in which we can teach environmental awareness to our students is with the 5 R’s recycle, reuse, renew, respect, and reduce.
Those five R’s are excellent in order to create awareness and to help the planet.
Recycle: Teach students all the different material that they can recycle, such as bottles, glass newspapers, ink jet and laser printer Also, You can recycle cell phones, car batteries, tires, paper, cans, boxes and motor oil.

Reuse: Students and people in general should learn to reuse all materials manufactured with trees for their conservation. Besides, people can take their own bags to the market; also we could use the leftovers to make ornaments or jewelry and even earn some money.

Renew: All natural resources, when those are gone there’s no more to do.
Reduce: here we can do a lot of things to help the Earth and the environment. For example, reduce the emissions of carbon of your car into the atmosphere by walking any time you can. One of the big problems is deforestation and that must be reducing but NOW! In addition, we can replace old light bulbs for the new ones that save some amount of energy.

Respect: The mankind just has one place to live and is our planet Earth so we have to do our best to protect and respect it.
In order to help the Earth we must begin following those ways to help it and begin to teach them to the students, families, communities, and people in general.
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