Vegetarian Star

Natalie Portman was once an eco-conscious teen doing a better dance than that Miley/Hannah character could ever pull off.

Attendees at the Environmental Media Awards were presented with a video of a very young Portman as a background diva singing along to “Recycle it, Renew it, Redo it, Reuse it, Yea yea yea!”

Seems the vegan who transitioned from vegetarian because of Jonathan Safran Foer‘s book, Eating Animals, was destined to be an advocate of the green life.

The actress was reported to have both “grinned” and “cringed” at having old memories brought up that aren’t nearly as bad as the old birthday party clips your mother has lying around.

Organic food was served and compostable dinnerware was use at the ceremony meant to highlight people and productions drawing attention to environmental causes.

The Washington State Department of Ecology has a brief, easy read of recycling facts for kids after the video above gets their attention. No doubt, many adults could stand to read up on some of these facts too, especially considering they are the bottle water bandits of present time.

• In ancient B.C., the Chinese were said to make the first recycled paper, fashioning it from old fishing nets.

• Americans use 4 million plastic bottle every hour, but only 1 out of 4 is recycled.

• Recycling just one glass bottle saves enough electricity to power a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours.

• Americans throw away enough steel to build all of the new cars made in America.

View more facts and share them with your kids if you can stop singing that catchy, “Recycle it, Renew it, Redo it, Reuse it, Yea yea yea!”

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