The three R’s to save the environment are reduce, reuse and recycle.

(i) Reduce - Reduce means we should use resources only when required and do not adopt practices that lead to their wastage. For example – We should switch off the lights and fans when not in use. In this way, we can reduce the wastage of electricity.

(ii) Recycle - Recycling means we should collect discarded items of paper, plastic, glass and metals, and send them to the respective industries so that can make fresh paper, plastic, glass or metal objects from them. We can even recycle paper at our homes.

(iii) Reuse - Reuse means that we should try and use the same things over and over again rather than discarding them after single use. For example: plastic and glass jars of jams, pickles, etc can be used later for storing items like salt, sugar, etc.