Reducing Our Impact on Earth

People, animals and plants need clean air to breathe.

People, animals and plants need clean water to drink, take a bath or live in.

We need clean land, so plants and animals have a place to live and so that people do not get sick from living in places that are polluted.

Using old items to make new ones.

Litter is trash, such as paper, cans and bottles that has been thrown on the ground instead of into a trash can or recycling bin.

It is when the land, air or water is made dirty by waste, chemicals or other harmful things.

To keep land, water and air clean and to have enough resources so other people can enjoy them too.

They end up in the trash. Then a garbage truck will move it to a landfill. At a landfill trash is buried and it can also be burned which leads to air pollution.

Water can get dirty. Then we cannot use it for drinking, bathing and cooking. Animals and plants that live in the water may die.

It gets dirty with chemicals and gases that cause smog. The air can be too dirty to breathe.

Trash is unhealthy, and can make people, animals and plants sick. Chemicals on the land can wash into the water and cause pollution.

It helps save our natural resources. When we reduce, reuse, and recycle, we lessen our negative impact on the earth.