Activity 9d |
Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle |
Mentor:
Tumi |
Aim: To help students gain an understanding of recycling and be aware of how they can recycle waste material.
They should come up with ideas on how they can recycle and reuse materials used for food packaging.
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Activities
- Bring back everything you did not consume during your lunch break (all left-over food and packaging). Divide into groups of 6 to 8 learners and sort your waste into 3 piles:
- Waste
- Re-usables
- Recyclables
- Discuss your choice of classification and the environmental impact should you classify everything as waste.
- Think of ways to turn the recyclables into re-usables.
Discuss how this can be used to help your school and/or community.
- Do your homework:
Sort your refuse at home into 4 piles:
- Food (suitable to compost)
- Waste
- Re-usables
- Recyclables
- Estimate the volume of each pile and enter it in the table on the worksheet.
The volume of a medium-sized bucket is about 20 litres.
- Bring an empty 2 litre cooldrink bottle to Sci-Enza on Tuesday for the "Grow something" activity.
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Homework
Complete the Hands-on recycling 2 worksheet. Bring it along on Tuesday and complete the online survey at www.surveymonkey.com/s/9K2PXVP
View the results of the Re-survey
Note: Bring along an empty 2 litre cooldrink bottle for the "Grow something" activity. |
References & Resources
- Joe Bennett. 2009. Where Underpants Come from. Overlook Press.
- Kat Austen. 15 March 2012. Examining the lifecycle of a bike – and its green credentials. Viewed online on 27 March 2012 at: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/mar/15/lifecycle-carbon-footprint-bike-blog
- Good Technology. 21 Jan 2010. Sourcemap: Map Where Stuff Comes From. Viewed online on 20 March 2012 at http://www.good.is/post/sourcemap-map-where-stuff-comes-from
- Wikipedia.
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