Read the Waste Information Sheet 2 and then answer the following questions.

activity 1: at home

1.         How often does your dustman come to where you live?

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2.         Do you have a kerbside collection?

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3.         Do you use recycling banks and amenity sites?

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4.         Do you throw away more than you recycle?

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5.         How much more?

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6.         Do you find it difficult to recycle?  Why?

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7.         What would make it easier to recycle?

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activity 2: at school

Discuss with your friends how you could start a recycling scheme in your school.

Write out a plan of how you would do it.

Some questions you will need to answer:

•           Is there a need for a scheme?

•           Who will run it?

•          Do you need help from teachers, the caretaker, the secretary, parents?

•           Will the whole school be involved?

•           How often will you collect?

•           Where will you store the things collected?

•           Who will take the things you have collected?

•           Will it make money for the school?

•          What will happen when you leave the school?

 

activity 3: where you live

On a map of the area where you live mark in all the places where you can take things for reuse or recycling. 

Before you start, decide how you are going to show all the places. Are you going to use a colour, number or letter key? If it is a recycling bank, how will you show which materials are collected?

Some things you could include:

•           scrap merchants

•           recycling banks

•           charity shops

•           amenity sites

•           clothes banks

•           car dismantlers.................................PLUS................................?

 

 

 

There are also house to house collections by .................................................