Welcome Welcome to issue 23 of Green Kids, this edition is all about paper and trees. Did you know that the magazine that you are reading right now is made from recycled paper? We are going to find out how paper is recycled and how to conserve our precious trees. Also you can enter a competition to win a cool torch on page seven and enjoy our new cartoon on the back page.

One tree can

provide enough

oxygen for a family

of four to breathe fo r

a whole year!

Contents:

3 Paper & trees 4 The recycling story 6 Your letters 7 Get crafty 8 Cartoon

Editor Melissa Corkhill Design Jez Harris. Green Kids is printed on recycled paper using vegetable based inks. To write to us: Green Kids, PO Box 104, Lewes, BN7 9AX Tel: 01825 872858 Website: www.thegreenparent.co.uk With thanks to www.recyclenow.com for pictures.

What ab out the tre es? Once our planet had many more trees than it ha stoday. As our popula tion has increased we have cut down more trees to build t owns and cities and also t o make room for keeping a nimals an dgrowing fo od crops. Today thirt y three fo otball pitch sized areas of forest are cut down every sec ond. That is a huge number of trees destroyed to make way for human gr owth. And of course it has a bi g impact o n our planet bec ause trees help us breathe. T hey clean the air by soaking u p gases lik e carbon monoxide, sulphur di oxide and nitrogen di oxide. we can change things

It may seem like we can’t

do anything at home to stop forests being cut down. But

we can, let’s stop using so many new paper products

and choose things made

from recycled paper instead, like loo rolls and notepads.

reduce your paper use

Save trees Use me!!!

•Use both sides of every piece of paper •Pin up a large chalkboard to write messages on, rather than use paper. •Use your local library or buy books from secondhand shops

•Share books and magazines with friends •Look for recycled products like loo roll, wrapping and writing paper

fact

The averag e

family of fo ur throws

away a ton of paper

in a year. T hat’s the

same weig ht as

a car. Don ’t be

average!

The good news

is that the more

things we recycle, the

less energy is spent

making new things!

do o ne t hing Recycl e all bi ts of s crap pape r, new spape rs and magazi nes. If we all recy cled al l our n ewspa per we would save about 250 millio n trees a yea r.

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