DO NOWlook carefully at this picture. Look for evidence

of recycling or energy saving ideas

DON’T WRITE YOUR ANSWERS DOWNRECYCLING OR ENERGY SAVING EVIDENCE

SAVE THEM IN YOUR HEAD

SHARE AT LEAST ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS

What did we notice in the pictureRECYCLING OR ENERGY SAVING EVIDENCE

Composting of waste food from the fridge

The compost bin at the side of the house

Saving rain water The rain water barrel at the side of the house

Growing vegetables in the greenhouse

Saving on food miles by producing food at home

Hanging washing on the line Saving on power by not using the clothes dryer.

What else did you find

THIS TERM WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN MADE A DIFFERENCE IN

OUR OWN COMMUNITY

Stop don’t just chuck me out!!!

Learning Objective:To be aware of waste management within our community and to take action.Concepts:Sustainability, RecyclingPerspectives/ Activities:Inquiry, Research, social Action

THE TEACHERS PLEDGE FOR THIS UNIT

• WE WILL TRY TO LIMIT THE USE OF:

What difficulties do you think we will face with this pledgeBrainstorm with others in your group and come up with some possible difficulties we will face.

• Learning objective: What do we already know about how our community deals with these product or containers when we have finished with them.

About What I know now What I have learnt What I can do

Glass Waste

Food Scraps Waste

Plastic Waste

Paper Waste

E Waste

A LOAD OF RUBBISHHE UTANGA PARAHANGA

• What is waste HE AHA RAWA TE PARA?

• Waste, litter, rubbish or trash: whatever you call it, it’s all the things people don’t want or need. Waste is seen as useless and worthless. It’s out-of-date, it doesn’t fit, is left over from lunch or doesn’t work. People decide what rubbish is, and every year, all around the world, they are throwing away 4 billion tonnes of it. That’s the same weight as 333 million city buses.

So what are we throwing outE waste 1.5%

Other stuff 8.3%

Plastic 13.5%

Paper 25.5%

Food and other organic waste 51.2%

In your books make a strip graph to show these percentages

Why worryTypes of waste What is it What’s wrong with it

Food waste Over half of the average rubbish bag is organic – it’s made up of food scraps, fruit and vegie peelings and leftovers

As food waste rots it creates a nasty gas called methane. This gas gets trapped in the atmosphere and slowly heats the planet. (that’s global warming)

E waste Out of date, old or broken tv’s computers, mobile phones and other electronics.

E waste is full of poisonous chemicals. When it breaks down these chemicals seep out. In a rubbish dump they can get into the dirt and ground water

Plastic Plastic bags or plastic packaging from things like food, toys or furniture.

Plastic doesn’t vanish, it breaks down into tiny but deadly pieces.

Gone but not forgottenkua wareware – engari kaore i ngaro rawa

Banana Peel takes 4 weeks to break down

Plastic jug will take 1 million years

Thin plastic bags will take 15 years

Thick plastic bags such as school bags take 1000 years

Printers take 450 years

Develop a time line in your books to show how long this pile of rubbish will be in the ground before it breaks down. If your family gains a new generation every 30 years how many generations of your family will come and go before all these products have been broken down

Work it out!!! tauria

• Research for home work.• Ask your mum or dad how many rubbish bags

your household puts out every week.• If your are brave enough use some gloves and

take a look inside your rubbish bags to see what your family throws away.

• Make of note of the items in your books then work out how long it will take for the rubbish in your bag to break down.

Add to your time line

Your time line can go on for a few more generations yet

Do now.On a posit provided, write down the number of rubbish bags you family puts out each week. Then put your posit on the whiteboard.

Count up the total number of bags put out by the classes families each week, then multiply that by 52. That is the number of rubbish bags our class puts out in a year.Work out the following formula if a full rubbish bag measures approximately 1000mm x 600mmAnd a foot ball field measures 100m x 70m how many bags would it take to cover a football field.

NO CALCULATORS

Global impact

• The big cover up Te hunanga nui• Where in the world does all that rubbish go• Ka haere ena parahanga ki hea rawa?

• We don’t often think about what happens to our rubbish after it’s collected. It doesn’t just disappear. In fact, most of what the world has thrown away long ago probably still exists in some way today.

Archaeologists use ancient rubbish sites to find evidence of how people lived thousands of years ago so perhaps when our great great great great grandchildren dig up old civilisation sites that are actually our tip sites they will find out a lot about how wasteful we really are!!!

HISTORY SPOTDID YOU KNOW

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BURYING RUBBISH FOR AGES. The earliest

known rubbish dump existed 5,ooo years ago in Crete! (want to know where crete is? Look it

up in an atlas or visit www.maps.google.co.nz

HISTORY SPOTDID YOU KNOW

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BURYING RUBBISH FOR AGES. The earliest

known rubbish dump existed 5,ooo years ago in Crete! (want to know where crete is? Look it

up in an atlas or visit www.maps.google.co.nz

Landfills nga tapuke whenua

• Most waste ends up in a landfill or dump, a large hole in the ground filled with rubbish then covered with layers of dirt. It keeps most waste out of sight, but as it rots it can leak poisonous gases and chemicals into the earth and ground water.

Incinerating: Te tahu parahanga

• Burning rubbish gets rid of it quickly and means it doesn’t have to go into a landfill. On the other hand, burning creates gases and ash that go straight into the air that we breathe. The heat from burning waste is sometimes used to make steam to warm homes and buildings.

Welcome to the biggest rubbish dump in the world

• In the ocean between Japan and Hawaii is the biggest rubbish dump the world has ever seen. It’s the North Pacific Gyre where the ocean’s currents work like a toilet bowl, sucking everything on the outside (near land) into the centre. Only it won’t flush away. It’s collecting waste from Asia and North America. The gyre is a floating tip more than three times the size of Aotearoa NZ!!

Don’t worry! It’s not all bad. Find out more

about the Gyre and how people can stop it growing by visiting

www.greengorilla.com

There are 5 gyre rings in the worlds oceans

Use your atlas or google earth to locate the longitude and latitude of at least one of these gyre. Name some of the countries nearest to the gyre

you have chosen.

Other placesGetting rid of waste costs money. Some countries find that sending their waste overseas is cheaper than getting rid of it

at home. Often it’s a case of out of sight out of mind. If waste is sent away, another nation has to worry about the clean up

.

Other placesGetting rid of waste costs money. Some countries find that sending their waste overseas is cheaper than getting rid of it

at home. Often it’s a case of out of sight out of mind. If waste is sent away, another nation has to worry about the clean up

.

Ghana West Africa• Second-hand computers arrive there from all over the

world with the idea of being reused by local people.

• However, most of the computers don’t work (e waste). Mike Anane, an environment expert working for the United Nations, says “the computers are junk. They just don’t work. They go straight to the dump sites around the country.

Global spring cleaning

It looks like waste is a global disaster, but we can help, look at how people all over the world are getting stuck into the big rubbish clean up.

Japan

• All Japanese companies making tv’s, washing machines, fridges or air conditioners have to take back their goods and recycle them once they’re no longer wanted.

BRAZIL• Rather than throw away

the batteries that power personal computers or mobile phones, Brazilians can drop their old batteries off at collection points to be recycled. Sony, a company that makes many battery powered products, runs the sites and recycles batteries, keeping them safely out of landfills and incerators.

INDIA

• the wet season in 2005, there were so many plastic bags being used in Maharashtra that they clogged drains and caused flooding. To solve the problem plastic bags have been banned. How it is illegal to make, sell or use a plastic bag anywhere in that region. Meanwhile in Goa, another part of India, people are turning old newspapers into paper bags to be used instead of plastic.

COLLINGWOOD AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

• Kiwis use over a billion plastic bags a year. To make a difference, Collingwood, found at the top of the South Island, became the first town in Aotearoa NZ to ban them, saving 1 million plastic bags every year. (want to know what other countries are banning the bag?)

• www.bringyourbag.com/enviro

EGYPT

• In Cairo Egypt, locals can go to recycling school where they are taught how to transform plastic bottles into other products.

Local action - what can we do

• Learning objective. Small steps can make a difference. Student can research, plan and implement an action plan around the school to reduce the amount of rubbish the school produces or the way that rubbish is dealt with.

LETS GET BRAINSTORMING

Where

Photograph

interview

Who

What

Measure

Record

how

Make a difference - make a plan

What Trash could we work on

White board markers

paper

Food scraps

E Waste

Where is this trash located

PE Department

Copy Room

Social studies upper

MasseyStudent centre

Management

Staff Room

Arts department

Library

English Lower Massey

Science BlockMaths Dept

Food Rubbish E Rubbish

Paper rubbish Plastic Rubbish

NOW WE ARE ON OUR WAY

• ONCE WE HAVE A PLAN • YOU CAN• MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGE• REPORT TO THE BOARD ON RUBBISH ISSUE• TAKE ACTION YOURSELF TO SOLVE THE

RUBBISH PROBLEM