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YoungAction for YouropeVision HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO RECYCLE? Clara-Poland Recycling is essential, it decreases waste, allows materials to be reused and helps the environment. With all these benefits, it‟s hard to believe that some people don‟t recycle! Sometimes people just need an extra push to encourage them to start. Many everyday products are recyclable, but very little waste actually gets recycled. Only 13% of municipal solid waste is recycled globally. Part of the problem is that people put things in the trash that could go in the recycling bin. One way to get people to recycle more may be encouraging them to imagine a new life for their trash. If we want to get people recycle more, we should be more involved. If each of us takes care of our rubbish and no one else has to do it for us, then it will naturally cost us less in the future. If we want to convince those who do not, it is not a higher price, but education and promotion. HOW CAN WE SAVE OUR PLANET? Agathe-France REDUCE RECYCLE REUSE You have to repair, example for the clothes, smartphones and not buy new;buy repaired things EDUCATE: environmental education for sustainable development: the school trains the citizens of tomorrow PLANT A TREE: Research workers from Zurich university have calculated that we could plant trees on an additional 900 million hectares, in addition to the current 2.8 billion hectares. This would capture 205 gigatons of carbon out of the 300 gigatons that have been added to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial period DON’T SEND CHEMICALS INTO OUR WATER WAYS We can clean our house naturally and healthily Bike more and walk: the bicycle and walking improve air quality by reducing the level of pollution