Creative Recycling: Turning Trash into Treasure

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Creative Recycling

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Plastic is all around us.

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We use plastic to make bottles for drinks, packages for food, and containers for other items we buy.

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Some of this plastic is recycled, but most of this plastic ends up in the trash.

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What if there were a way to use some of this used plastic to make useful products?

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That could help create less waste.

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One creative business owner, Yellow Yen, is doing just that.

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When we think about plastic waste, we must remember three things.

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Reduce, reuse, and recycle.

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Reduce means using less of something.

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Reuse means using something more than once.

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Recycle means turning an old thing into something new.

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Yellow is helping with this.

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First, he created a special plastic straw that can be reused several times.

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He also made strong, reusable plastic bags from recycled trash.

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These things are useful and good for the environment.

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Many people do recycle plastic.

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The plastic is taken to a place where it is made into something else.

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Yellow recycles old plastic himself and makes something different from it.

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He uses plastic waste to make useful things such as pots for flowers.

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He melts old plastic and gives it a new shape.

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By doing this, Yellow turns trash into useful products and that helps the Earth.