How it works
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in bubble letters, one word to a line on a sideways sheet. Stacked, the words print taller in every font than on one line, by more than half in Fredoka, the font the sheet opens in.
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Labels for the bins
The row under the sheet has a label for each bin: Recycle, Compost and Landfill or Trash for a set of three, and Paper / Only, Cardboard, Plastic, Glass, Metal, Cans and / Bottles, Food / Scraps, Batteries and Electronics where materials are sorted apart. Recycling / Bin, Recycle / Here, Please / Recycle and Sort / Your Trash go on the wall above.
Headings for a poster or a club
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle each fill a sheet for a three-panel poster; the recycling symbol, three arrows chasing each other in a loop, fits beside them. Zero / Waste, Waste / Less, Green / Team, Recycling / Club and Recycled / Art head a club board or a display of things made from scrap.
- Glass prints almost twice as tall as Cardboard. For two labels of one size, type both words on two lines and cut the sheet apart.
- Recycle / Here and Please / Recycle print Recycle at the size of the word alone.
- One letter per page, under More options, makes eighteen upright sheets in eight shapes: the e comes six times.
Questions and answers
How do you draw reduce reuse recycle in bubble letters?
Pencil the three words on three lines, each capital R starting at the same left edge. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep a ring inside each R, e and d, then rub out the pencil.
What order do reduce, reuse and recycle go in?
Reduce, then reuse, then recycle. The US Environmental Protection Agency ranks reducing and reusing above recycling, and says products should only be recycled if they cannot be reduced or reused.
Is landfill one word?
Yes: landfill, from land and fill. The US Environmental Protection Agency describes a modern landfill as an engineered, managed site for the disposal of solid waste, so the label suits the bin for what is not recycled or composted.