War on Waste: Pre-viewing Questions

1. What do you know about recycling, reusing and reducing in terms of waste?
(what are facts and figures you know from the internet, friends/family, teachers etc)
I know that reusing, reducing and recycling waste are a key part of what we should be doing if we
want to make a greener planet (I don’t know much else as I am just a 13 year old).
2. What are your personal opinions about the whole sustainability issue that we currently face?
You may think we are doing enough, you think we never will be able to fix the problem.
Explain your position.
My personal opinion about what the world are doing is that we aren’t doing enough. I think that e
could very easily clean up the world if the government gave funding to remove the waste and if every
human being on the planet helped.
3. Do you believe that an individual’s choices and behaviour have the power to change society
on the whole?
You may have heard “why should I do that when others don’t” etc
Explain your position.
I believe that if everyone starts to clean up the Earth even if other people aren’t so that we can get
more and more people to clean our planet.
War on Waste: Summary
Summarise in 150 words the first episode of War on Waste.
Write this like a movie review:
- What is the overall goal/motivation of the documentary?
- What strategies does the doco use to get its point across? (shock value, scare mongering etc)
- What did it do well? What did it do perhaps not so well?
- What are your overall thoughts about the doco?
The overall goal for the “War on Waste” episode was to tell everyone what we are doing to
our planet and how we can help instead of harm it. It was also explaining how much rubbish
gets thrown away by the average Australian. He said that people threw this much rubbish out
in just a minute. The strategy the doco uses to get this point across is to ask people how long
it takes for that much rubbish to be thrown out. Even though the answer was just a minute.
Something that went very well was when they show the giant footprint of rubbish, and the
man asks people how long it might take for Australian households to produce this much
rubbish. People answer and the man says higher or lower. Every single time, the man said
lower, because it was. My thoughts on the ‘War on Waste’ episode were that the man did a
really good job explaining the problem and how we can fix that problem.