| The future is now and by adopting environmentally | | | | paint brushes. Take the young members of the family |
| sound habits and passing those on, we will helping to | | | | along with you when you go to the recycling center |
| ensure that our environment is sustainable for the | | | | and make it a routine part of your week or month. By |
| future of our children. Recycling should be as natural to | | | | teaching children that recycling glass as a way of life, it |
| children as putting on their seat belts when they get | | | | will become a habit that they never question and |
| into the car. We teach our kids how to behave and | | | | before long, we will have created a whole new |
| share, how to brush their teeth and care for their toys, | | | | generation of recyclers who are respecting the earth |
| so we should naturally be teaching them to protect the | | | | and making our environment more sustainable. |
| earth and to recycle as well. | | | | As we know, youngsters mimic what we adults do |
| We all use glass products every day. From jars in the | | | | and say. Therefore we must be sure to show children |
| kitchen, to medicine bottles in the bathroom, glass jars | | | | what is right by not tossing litter on the ground and by |
| if not recycled, fill our landfills, cause injury to ourselves | | | | recycling glass bottles and jars. Even very young |
| and to animals and deplete our natural resources. | | | | children, although you cannot explain why you are |
| Glass that is carelessly tossed in the garbage will end | | | | recycling, just by doing it they will watch your actions |
| up sitting in a landfill forever as it will not decompose. | | | | and mimic what you do. It is very important to set a |
| Kids should learn to reuse old glass containers for | | | | good example early. |
| storing things such as buttons, arts and crafts and | | | | |