Satellites show Amazon forest burning in Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, Spain ...

A new species inhabits our seas, "plastic" 13.000 pieces per square kilometer!

Pyrenees glaciers are melting. And of Patagonia, Argentina, and Norway ...

Sunbathing has become dangerous: the deterioration of the ozone layer causes more ultraviolet radiation reaches us.

How to live without destroying the planet?

Recycling is one of the best things that you can do for the environment. While reducing piles of garbage, you're also protecting natural resources, cutting global warming pollution and saving water and energy.

Make recycling a family affair. It’s easier to get people involved if they know what they’re supposed to do. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.

Why is it important to recycle and save natural resources?

The strategy of the 3 R's

One of the keys to reducing the amount of waste generated is to apply this simple rule, which corresponds to the initials of "Reduce", "Reuse" and "Recycle", which should established in this order at the time of managing waste.

Children must to learn why it is important to treat natural resources and waste with care.

The rate of waste generation amounts at the city of Madrid to 1.5 kg per capita per day, representing a quantity of waste difficult to imagine.

There are many possible ways to reduce the amount and hazard of the waste generate. Here are some tips:

• Whenever possible buy products in bulk or largepackages. Avoid individual products and flee from the disposable items (plates, cutlery, napkin ...).
• Avoid the use of dangerous products or replace them with less harmful (batteries rechargeable, vegetable-based or water inks, organic cleaners, etc). 

• Do not use disposable products, choose other more durable (handkerchiefs, cutlery of metal, glass dishes, shopping carts ...). If you have to buy them give several applications: fill the bottle, wash the cutlery and plates, reuse shopping bags, etc.
• You can give new functions to objects that would normally strip them away. For example:
• Use clothes that you can not donate as rags.
• Take glass jars to package other products.
• Use the shopping bags for trash instead of buying other bags for it, etc.
• Donate or delivering anything that can still be helpful to someone else. There are associations that collect clothing, computers, furniture, toys, books ... and are responsible for making them available to people who need them.

Although the recycling of most materials needed for processes that can not be done at home, some products can be recycled at home:

- Soap from vegetable oil.�- Recycled paper.�- Composting: technology for recycling organic waste.�- Crafts and other creative ideas.

But the most important thing is

What waste is in the yellow container?

• Plastic Packaging :�Milk bottles, juice, yogurt, soft drinks, water, home cleaning products or of personal cleanliness (gel, shampoo, cologne, cream, etc.).�Butter or cream tubs, cups of yogurt, pudding or other desserts.�Shopping bags, packaged goods such as muffins, bread, chips, nuts, etc..�Polystyrene trays (Styrofoam), plastic film and plastic wraps (the film which came with trays of meats, fruits, vegetables and fish, which involves a lot of magazines, pamphlets, press ...)�Large plastic wrap and mattress covers or furniture.�Glasses, dishes or plastic covered single-use.�Packages of meat products.�• metal containers(Steel and aluminium):�Cans, tins. Aluminum plates and trays (such as catering)�Foil,bags of chips, etc. Lids and caps of bottle or jars. Aerosols�• Packaging type brik:�Briks of milk, tomatoes, wine, oil, soups ...

It is important to note that in the yellow bin deposited only plastics that are part of a package (along with cans and briks). If you want to recycle other plastic products and materials, such as a toy or a plastic chair, you should take them to the clean Points.

What waste is in the green container?

Glass container.

Bottles, cans and glass jars.

Remove lids, caps, corks, paper labels. Rinse bottles before placing in the container. Glass bottles must not be mixed with other types of glass such as windows, light bulbs, mirrors, glass tableware or auto glass. Ceramics contaminate glass and are difficult to sort out.

What waste is in the blue container?

Paper and cardboard container.

Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, letters, cardboard packaging, egg boxes, etc.

Do not throw dirty paper or plastic bags.�Folding cartons.

What is he doing?

Every supermarket and in other places, there are collection bins for batteries.

Single Use Batteries (Alkaline, Heavy Duty)

Keep out of the environment; take to an security dealer for recycling.

Chemist`s. Sigre Point

Medicine, drugs.

Do not throw in any other container.

Chemicals must never be dumped in storm drains.

Container of organic matter and debris.

Organic matter (food waste). Paper and dirt. Diapers.

Place in sealed bags to avoid contaminating the containers.

Garbage company or local recycling agency. (Punto Limpio)

Some of the waste will require special handling procedures and special recycling places or events.

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Chemicals or used oil, must never be dumped in storm drains.

Items such as poisons, paints, oil, solvents, automotive fluids, cleaners, herbicides and many others. Motor Oil, Tires and Car Batteries

Fluorescent light bulbs, Mercury Thermostats & Thermometers, Mercury Switches. Unwanted Household Goods (small appliances, tableware, clothing, furniture, toys, sports equipment, children's books, etc.)

Some of the waste will require special handling procedures and special recycling places or events.

The distribution or location of the clean points in our country (fixed and / or mobile), depending on the Community, municipality or district where you live or are interested to deposit waste. It is therefore advisable to call your city or municipal board before turning to it to know the characteristics and hours of clean point.

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• 20% of men consume more than 80% of the earth's resources.

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• 5,000 people die every day from unsafe water. One thousand million people lack access to clean water.
• One thousand million people are hungry.

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• Over 50% of the grain market in the world are used as animal food and agrofuels.
• 40% of the arable land is degraded.
• 13 million hectares of forest disappear annually.
• One in four mammals, one in eight birds, one amphibian in three is in danger of extinction. Species are becoming extinct at rates 1,000 times the natural rate.
• Three quarters of fish stocks are depleted, in decline or on the verge of becoming so.
• The average temperature in the last 15 years has been the highest ever recorded.
• The ice (ice bank or the polar regions) has lost 40% of its thickness in 40 years.
• There could be 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

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• Global military spending is 12 times higher than development aid.

What can citizens do to protect the environment?

We all know what to do, but sometimes we forget.

Don't throw away anything that can be recycled!

Here is a list of things you should always recycle (or reuse!) ...

Where do you put away in Madrid?

Do you know really, what is the meaning of these symbols?

What do you think about that image?