Read 'n' Seed 6: Final Review of "Trash Talk & Paper or Plastic"

Overview


I read two books, Trash Talk and Paper or Plastic. Trash Talk was about reusing items more than once and awesome ways to use them. For example dryer sheets, to save your money and the environment, you should only use half a dryer sheet at once and use the dryer sheet more than once. We could all do this! Paper or Plastic was about  using to much paper or plastic packaging, bags, etc. 

Three Most Significant Things


1. Both of these books about about helping the environment in eco-friendly ways. 


2. Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR): This is any material that was used by a consumer and then recycled for use in a new product. In Paper and Plastic, companies are turning to this, to help save the environment and it is also saves money. 


3. In Trash Talk is talks about energy waste, “to waste energy is no different than throwing your hard-earned money out with the trash (96).” Energy creates pollution and pollution destructs our wilderness. It also states that an average household spends “1,300-2,400 dollars annually on energy—44% of that being heating and cooling (96).” This is important because if we save our energy resources, we are not polluting the air, and it will also save us money. 


Why is it important? 


Both of these books, focus on ways to save the environment. They take things that you would throw away after one use and come up with ideas to use them again. This saves money by not having to buy something because you made it. It also keeps trash out of the landfill. The other comes up with new ways of packaging to use less materials, saving trees and also not filling up landfills with trash. 


Would I recommend these books?


I would definitely recommend these because they give and have ideas to help you be more eco-friendly. They are a little harder to read because they are not a chapter books, they are more informational. But, they still have really great ideas to help our environment, and they are easy things you could change in your life. :)