Let's Recycle

Can you sort these items to help the environment?

Have you ever wondered how you can help the planet? One way is to recycle. Use your sorting skills to put these recyclable items in the right place.

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Scene	Description	Narration
1	We see a cartoon recycle bin and cartoon recyclables. The objects go into the bin.	One of the best ways to help the planet is to recycle your trash, so it can be used again. Use your sorting skills to help these recyclables get into the correct categories, and stay out of the landfill.
2	There's a paper recycling container in one corner, and a metal recycling container in the other. Scattered around the screen: soda can, book, tissue box, newspaper, bottlecaps, soup can.	Some of this trash is paper and needs to go in the paper bin, and some of it is metal, and needs to go in the metal bin. Can you figure out which objects belong in the metal bin, and which go in the paper bin?
3	The book, newspaper, and tissue go in the paper bin, and the soda can, soup can, and bottle caps go in the metal bin.	Great work! The book, newspaper, and tissue go in the paper bin, while the soda can, soup can, and bottle caps go in the metal bin. Let's sort some more!
5	There's a brown recycling bin, a white recycling bin, and a green recycling bin. Scattered around the screen are four green bottles, two clear bottles, and two brown bottles.	These glass items need to be sorted by color. The green glass should go in the green bin, the clear glass should go in the clear bin, and the brown glass needs to go in the brown bin. Decide where each glass bottle should go for recycling.
6	Each bottle goes into the correct bin.	That's right! Sorting these bottles before we recycle them makes a big difference.
7	We see a compost bin on the left and a regular trashcan on the right. Scattered across the screen are a tomato, a hot dog, a muffin, a piece of candy, an apple, a carrot, yogurt, and a strawberry.	None of this food is good to eat, but that doesn't mean we have to throw it all away. The fruits and vegetables can be composted to help our garden grow! Sort the fruits and vegetables into the compost bin, and the other food into the trash can.
8	The tomatoes, strawberries, apple cores, and carrots go into the compost. The rest of the food goes into the trashcan.	All done! The tomatoes, strawberries, apple cores, and carrots can all be composted. The hot dog, candy, muffin, and yogurt need to go in the trash.
9	There are two donation boxes, one with a picture of the sun and another with a picture of a snowflake. Scattered around the screen are a scarf, a t-shirt, boots, mittens, a jacket, sunglasses, shorts, sandals, and a winter cap.	Just because these clothes don't fit any more doesn't mean they're garbage. We can give them away! Let's sort these into summer and winter clothes for the donation center. Think about which clothes are used in the winter, and which are best in summer, and sort them into the correct donation boxes.
10	The mittens, hat, scarf, jacket, and boots go into the winter clothes box, and the sunglasses, t-shirt, shorts, and sandals go in the summer box.	There we go. The mittens, hat, scarf, jacket, and boots are all winter clothes, and the sunglasses, T-shirt, shorts, and sandals are perfect for summer.
11	We see a bottle, bottlecaps, a newspaper, a soda can, and a soup can.	Look around your house to see what sorts of things you can recycle!

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