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Recycling Activity Sheet

Visit our website for more activities:
www.baltimorecountymd.gov/recycling
recycle@baltimorecountymd.gov

Crack the secret code below to learn how you can better use our
resources. Share these “secrets” with your parents and friends!

the trash you make in the first place.

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things like egg cartons, paper towel rolls and shoe
E R S U R boxes for art projects. Give away old clothes and toys.

everything you can!

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111 W. Chesapeake Ave., Rm. 225 Towson, MD 21204 410.887.2000
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Mixed paper, plastic bottles, aluminum or steel cans, and other recyclables
go in an open-top bin for recycling. Find the items below:

newspaper milk jug cardboard

soap bottle soup can magazine
soda can jar card
cereal box tuna can sardine tin
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Find the items that cannot be recycled

in Baltimore County’s recycling program:

CD case napkin styrofoam

dishes plastic bag tissue
food wrapper plastic fork pizza box*
mirror straw wax paper

*if covered by food

 Recyclables are remade into useful new products. Draw an arrow connecting the
item collected for recycling to the examples of new products into which they can be made.

Yard materials New aluminum cans

Computer print-out Bathroom tissue, birthday card
Comic book Carpet, sleeping bag stuffing, plastic “lumber”
Glass applesauce jar Roller skates, toolbox, bridge
Plastic soda bottle Cereal box, folder
Soup can Countertops
Aluminum soda can “Compost” to help flowers grow

Find your way through the maze below to place

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the bottle, can, and paper into the recycling bin!

Printed on Recycled Paper. Rev. 4/10