heat water. When you make a hot drink, it is good to heat just as much water as you need, not more. Rubbish Every day, people in Greece throw away s million plastic bottles. Around the world we produce millions of tonnes of rubbish every year. Some of this rubbish is recycled, hut most of it is thrown into big holes in the ground. Rubbish like this may be dangerous for animals and people for hundreds of years. Recycling an old aluminium drinks container only uses 5 per cent of the energy that we need to produce a new one. Rubbish is taken to places called recycling centres, where it is put into different groups. Later, each different kind of rubbish is broken into pieces and made into new materials. Recycling is easy to do, it is good for the natural world and it saves a lot of energy is there a recycling centre near you? Saving energy means thinking more about the things that we do every day If we do this, we can stop a lot of pollution, and save money too!