The document discusses various ways to reduce waste through reducing, reusing, recycling, recovering, repairing, and upcycling or downcycling materials. It provides examples of how to reduce waste in daily activities like reducing packaging and reusable containers. Common reusable items at home, market, and school are listed. The importance of reducing consumption and waste is to preserve resources and landfill space. Various materials like plastics, metals, paper that can be recycled, recovered or repaired are also outlined.
The document discusses various ways to reduce waste through reducing, reusing, recycling, recovering, repairing, and upcycling or downcycling materials. It provides examples of how to reduce waste in daily activities like reducing packaging and reusable containers. Common reusable items at home, market, and school are listed. The importance of reducing consumption and waste is to preserve resources and landfill space. Various materials like plastics, metals, paper that can be recycled, recovered or repaired are also outlined.
The document discusses various ways to reduce waste through reducing, reusing, recycling, recovering, repairing, and upcycling or downcycling materials. It provides examples of how to reduce waste in daily activities like reducing packaging and reusable containers. Common reusable items at home, market, and school are listed. The importance of reducing consumption and waste is to preserve resources and landfill space. Various materials like plastics, metals, paper that can be recycled, recovered or repaired are also outlined.
• What happens to the garbage after they put it in the garbage can? Reduce=> make less garbage. For example, instead of buying juice boxes for lunch, buy a large container of juice and use a washable single serving container to take it to school. => buy items in refillable containers • Use cloth bag/eco bag/paper bag/native baskets instead of plastic bag, when you buy groceries. • Avoid buying disposable items or single use products such as batteries, razors, utensils, plates, cups etc. • Reducing is important because they decrease the amount of waste on the planet and preserve natural resources by maintaining space and cutting down on landfills. • Reduce consumption of new material and save energy. • Recycle=> turn an item into another useful item. For example, scrap paper from the classroom might be turned into newspaper or paper bags when sent to the recycling plant. • Do not throw away used newspapers or used writing pads. Sell them or bring them into usable paper again. • Use bottles, tin cans rubber tires can be recycled into useful materials. 5R OF WASTE MANAGEMENT
• Reduce=> make less garbage.
• Recycle=> turn an item into another
useful item. RECYCLE REDUCE How can I recycle at home? How can I reduce at home? RECAP
• Direction: Identify whether the material is for
RECYCLE or for REDUCE. ______1. Native Basket ______2. Empty Bottle ______3. Paper ______4. Eco Bag ______5. Plastic REUSE
• Reuse – to use again or more than once.
• Reuse materials and items so that they have
longer life spans and don’t get thrown away • Use both sides of paper and printing and re-use as scratch paper, gift wrapper, etc. • Consider the potential life span or durability when buying new products. • Buy durable food/storage containers and reuse them instead of using foil, plastic bags/wrap. • Materials that can be reuse are empty cans, bottle of all sizes, cups plates, glasses, broken iron grills, wood parts of furniture, medicine vials, cosmetic bottle, and trays. • The importance of reuse is to prevent solid waste from entering the landfill, improve our communities, and increase the materials. WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT HOME? • Plastic bottle • Plastic container • Medicine vials • Tires • Old clothes • Old toys • Plastic WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT THE MARKET? • Wrapper • Plastic bottle • Plastic • Empty cans • Vegetables • Fruits peelings • Candy wrappers WHAT ARE THE COMMON REUSABLE ITEMS AT SCHOOL • Plastic wrapper • Cardboard • Paper • Plastic bottle • Leaves • Juice wrappers • Candy wrappers ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
In your notebook
Differentiate REDUCE, RECYCLE, REUSE
TYPES OF RECYCLING
• Upcycling - make a higher quality material from its
original value
• Downcycling – converts waste materials into a new
product with lesser quality. COMMON MATERIALS THAT CAN BE RECOVERED
•metals, paper, cardboard, asphalt
shingles, sheet rock, concrete, lumber and other wood waste, glass, electrical wire, plastics, organics RECOVER
• Recover => Any waste that can’t be reused,
recycled or avoided in the first place (i.e. reduced) can be used to make heat and power using incineration, anaerobic digestion or other techniques. By recovering the energy left in our rubbish we extract maximum value whilst landfill.
• Pyrolysis Is the process where garbage can be
converted into energy. REPAIR
• Repair => have appliances, office equipment,
lighting fixtures, and automotive parts repaired instead of buying new ones. • Have an old furniture reupholstered or refurbished instead of buying new ones. • Direction: Identify the listed materials either they can be RECOVER or REPAIR. __________1. Wood table __________2. Plastic __________3. Concrete __________4. Computer __________5. Electric Fan • Answer the following questions based on the activity you have done. 1. What material you have used? ___________________________ 2. After recycling the material was it UPCYCLING OR DOWNCYCLING? Explain your answer ___________________________ 3. Was your material difficult to recycle? Explain you answer ___________________________ 4. Did you enjoy recycling? Why? ___________________________ 5. If your going to recycle a new material what would it be? Explain why have you chosen that material. ___________________________