Hello! My name’s Song Thu. I’m 11 years old.

Last week, I read a

magazine article in my classbook “Family and Friends 5”. I’m really
interested in it because it has an interested title “ As Good As New”.
As good as new
We all want to help the planet, but
we want to look good, too. Now you
can buy lots of great clothes and
accessories and protect the
environment at the same time.
Would you like some
new shoes? They’re
colourful, fashionable
and guess what!
They used to be car tyres!
It’s easy for scientists to
recycle car tyres and use
the rubber to make new
things.
 Do you like this funny bag? It’s
bright and trendy, but can you
guess what people make it with?
Have a look........this bag used to be
old juice cartons!
This colouful T-shirt used to be
plastic bottles. It takes five large
plastic bottles to make one large T-
shirt.
You can buy baseball caps
that used to be plastic
bottles too!
Guess what! These
beautiful bracelets used
to be old newspapers,
comics and bus tickets.
You can make
greetings cards
from old paper,
magazines or paper
bags.
You can make book
covers from old
carrier bags,
posters, maps or
even clothes.
You can save wrapping paper,
gift boxes and ribbons and use
them again.
If you want to save the world and have new,
fashionable products, please recycle old things,
don’t throw them away. In short, you can make
recycling items at home to make beautiful products
to give friends and relatives. People who pollute the
environment new more than those who want to
protect the environment. Do you know how
environmental pollution it harm us? So let’s join
hands to protect the environment with your
recycled products.