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New York Recycles Crossword Puzzle

Across
1. Trash discarded along roads, shorelines and other places.
3. When we recycle, we save _________.
4. To not make garbage to begin with.
7. Leaves, grass clippings, fruit and vegetable wastes.
9. To use something over and over again.

Down
2. Take materials that would otherwise be waste and turning it into something new.
4. When we recycle we save our natural _____________.
5. When materials compost, they __________.
6. Things we throw in a garbage can.
8. We throw away a lot of this every day.

Word List
compost reduce
decompose reuse
energy recycle
litter resources
paper waste

Answers




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