This document discusses the importance of recycling and reducing plastic waste. It notes that Americans consume a large amount of bottled water but only recycle a small portion, leaving billions of bottles in landfills each year. Plastic bottles take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills. It encourages individuals to make changes like using reusable water bottles and containers rather than disposable plastic ones. The document suggests that individual actions, even if small, can create larger change and that citizens deserve a clean environment.

1. OUR GREEN INDIA

2. • It’s a Special Day…
we will take some time
to discover why…and
how to make everyday
special!

3. My Belief
• Every single person can make a
change…this can create a spiral effect
to SAVE our world.

4. BE RESPONSIBLE
• I am the ONLY person RESPONSIBLE for my
behavior.
• I choose to recycle…to make the world better
place for my family.
• I choose today to introduce and challenge each
of you to RECYCLE!

5. Get a Recycling Bin

6. Shopping Totes
• I shop with jute bags
• I take these to the grocery store and the mall! I
don’t want their plastic bags!

7. Plastic
bags..
Don’t have
to be eaten
to harm the
animals
POOR THING!!!!!!!!

8. According to a survey
• In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water
each, but only recycled an average of 23 percent. That
leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills.
• Bottled water costs between $1 and $4 per gallon and 90
percent of the cost is in the bottle, lid and label.
• According to the Beverage Marketing Corp, the average
American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in 1976.
In 2006 that number jumped to 28.3 gallons.
• It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a
year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough oil to fuel
100,000 cars.

9. Plastic Bottles
• Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become
landfill waste.
• In 2007 we spent $16 billion on bottled water.
That’s more than we spent on iPods or movie
tickets.
• Plastic bottles take 450-700 years before they
begin to decompose in a landfill.
• If everyone in NYC gave up water bottles for one
week they would save 24 million bottles from
being land filled; one month would save 112
million bottles and one year would save 1.328
billion bottles from going into the landfill.

10. Yuck!

11. This Picture Represents the
Amount of Plastic Bottles Thrown
Away Every 5 Minutes

12. Our Change
• Buy a PUR water purifier for your faucet.
• Buy a large plastic container to keep in the
refrigerator for a constant “cold” water
supply…
• Buy a container to take places instead of
buying packed plastic water bottles and
throwing them all around.

13. What Other Changes Can I Do?

14. How To Conserve Energy and
Water
• Shut the water off while brushing your
teeth…or brush your teeth in the shower!
• Put a bucket in your shower to capture
water…use it to water your plants.
• Shut off the water while washing the
dishes (by hand)
• Use less electricity in the summer by
running appliances in the early morning or
late evening…run “full” loads

15. Changes in Household Items
• Change hazardous
waste material in your
house to
environmentally safe
materials.

16. Is it a problem if we don’t
acknowledge it?

17. Ideas
for
Us?

18. WHAT SHOULD THE
GOVERNMENT DO???????
• The government should implement strict
rules like imposing fines and charges so
that people should not throw garbage all
around.
• The government should provide proper
incentives so that the municipal
corporation and the people to plant trees
so that we can conserve our planet.

19. If Not Us…Then Who?
• If we don’t change…then who will?
• Society tends to always think someone
else will do “it”.
• “It” happens to other people, “it” doesn’t
really matter…
• I THINK “IT” DOES!!!

20. Is “It” Possible?
• Is the feat possible…
or will we fail?
• Only time will tell…but
without trying…
• WE FAIL.

21. “It” is in
our
hands!

22. WE Deserve a Clean and Green
Planet!

23. PRESENTATION BY:
B.THANVITHA RATHOD
B.KEERTHI
Y.BHAVISHYA
S.SREE LAKSHMI SAI
D.PUJITHA
B.SAI CHARITHA