Activity 3 – Watch out for your waste!

Objectives:

At the end of this activity, the students should be able to

1. Explain the meaning of the terms REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE.

2. Differentiate between the terms REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE.

Materials

white board
white board marker
manila paper
pentel pens
colored pens
art papers

Trash bin filled with trash. For example:

- scrap paper
- tin cans
- toilet paper rolls
- empty kleenex boxes
- empty milk cartons
- empty pop bottles
- tinfoil
- newspaper

Prepare ahead

Fill trash bin to overflowing with trash items and place it on the teacher’s table.

Procedure

1. Divide the children into groups of 5 students.

2. Each group takes a few items out of the garbage can and move to their own
area.
3. Write down some points on how they can use the 3 R's on the items they
have chosen.
4. Write down their ideas on which of the 3 R's they're using.
5. Write them down on a manila paper. Present to the class.

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 Activity 5 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Objectives:

At the end of this activity the student should be able to

1. suggest ways on how to save the environment with the use of 3Rs

Materials:

One Worksheet per student

Procedures:

1. Each student should have a copy of the activity sheet. Read the following
article and answer the questions below.

The three Rs of the environment

People everywhere in the world produce a lot of rubbish but there is not enough
space, and landfills are filling up quickly. If we want to save our planet, then the so-
called three Rs are essential for learning how to deal with the waste we produce.
The three Rs are reduce, reuse, and recycle. Here are a number of tips on what you
can do to save the environment.

Reduce

A good place to start is by buying things that don’t have a lot of packaging. Then
there are items you may not use very often, so you might as well borrow them from
someone instead of buying them. Nowadays, newspapers can be read online so
buying the paper edition is not necessary. The same goes for emails and hence it is
usually not necessary to print them out. Generally, the use of electricity can be
greatly reduced by turning off lights that are not used.

Reuse

When you go shopping, refuse plastic bags and bring an eco bag with you instead. If
you’re not buying a lot, a bag is not necessary to begin with. Reusable bags should
be heavier and more durable. If you prepare your lunch at home, put it in a plastic
lunch box. Always keep shoe boxes as they are of help to keep our things. Used
clothes and shoes can be given to charitable institutions.

Recycle

Recycling is a process that makes it possible to create new products out of old ones.
Paper, aluminum, glass and plastic can often be recycled. Glass has been used for

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thousands of years and is relatively easy to recycle. Aluminum can be repeatedly
recycled quickly and easily. Paper is recyclable but it cannot be recycled forever.
The small fibers in paper eventually become very weak so that they cannot be
recycled into good paper anymore. Also, not every type of paper is recyclable as
some high-quality paper is too expensive to recycle.

2. Read the article for 2 minutes. Then stop.

a. What are the 3Rs of the environment?

_________________________________________________

3. Continue reading the article until you finish. Answer the table below. Look at
the statements and write if true, false or not given.

Statements True, False, Not given

1. In this short article, it suggests that
borrowing certain items is better than
buying them.
2. Pizza boxes are useful to store
things.
3. Used clothes can be sold to
charitable institutions
4. It is not possible to recycle aluminum
over and over again.
5. Empty plastic bottles are relatively
easy to recycle.

.4. Complete the sentences with information from the article.

1. _________________________________ are almost to full capacity.

2. If possible, try to buy items with little or no _____________________________.
3. Bring your own bag but make sure it is ________________and ______________.
4. It is a waste of paper if you print your______________________.
5. People can take used clothes and shoes to ______________________________
then redistributed to people in need.
6. There is a limit to how many times paper can be recycled because it is made
of________________________.

5. Suggest ways on how to save our community with the use of the 3Rs. Write them
on a manila paper and present to the class.

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 Activity 1 - What constitutes waste?

Objectives:

At the end of this activity, the student should be able to

1. Identify the waste found in the home and in the school
2. Classify the kinds of waste in the home and in the school according to their
properties

Materials:

Bond paper
Manila paper
Pentel pens
rulers

Procedure:

1. Think of what you throw away at home and in the school.

a. What makes up waste in your home? Write your answers manila paper.
b. What makes up the wastes in your school? Write your answers on a manila
paper.

2. Classify household waste and school waste according to their properties.

c. What are the different kinds of waste? Draw a diagram of the different kinds
of waste. Make the diagram in a manila paper.
d. What can you say about the different kinds of household waste? School
waste? Write it in a manila paper for class presentation.

Kind of waste School waste Household waste

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 Activity 2 - How do you deal with waste?

Objectives:

At the end of this activity, the student should be able to

1. Identify the ways to dispose household waste and school waste
2. Propose other ways to dispose waste in the community

Materials

Manila paper
Pentel pens
Rulers

Procedure

1. Think of how waste is disposed of in your home? In the school?

a. What is done with each kind of waste? Write your answers in a manila
paper.

2. Reflect on your answers in a.

b. Are these practices in line with those recommended by your barangay or the
Environmental Management Bureau or groups safeguarding the
environment?
c. What can you say about the basura patrol program of environmental
management bureau (The “Basura Patrol” Team aims to strictly implement
and enforce the stated provision by patrolling public places such as the
major thoroughfares, roads, sidewalks, canals, parks, and esteros and see if
cleanliness is in place among the Local Government Units (LGUs)
jurisdictions in Region I).?
d. Is this being done in your own community?

3. Can these practices of waste disposal still be improved? What other ways can
you suggest to improve our disposal of waste materials in the home and in the
school? Write your answers in a manila paper.

4. Think about what you have learned in this activity.

e. What can you say about waste disposal?

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 Activity 4 - Waste and Recycling

Objectives

At the end of this activity, the students should be able to

1. identify a range of common materials and recognize that the same material is
used to make different objects.
2. re-use or recycle objects to reduce the amount of waste we produce and
reduce the demand for raw materials

Materials

Any type of material made from paper, wood, metal, plastic, dry leaves
7 Trash bins
Plastic hand gloves

Procedure

1. Students go out of their classroom and collect trash made from the different
materials like: paper, wood, metal, plastic, card board and rubber. Collect at
least 5 materials.
2. Wear plastic hand gloves to protect from dirt and sharp pointed objects.
3. Put all trashes collected in a plastic trash bin.
4. Sort all objects collected according to the material they are made of.
5. Record their findings in a table form
Table 1: Type of material collected

PAPER WOOD METAL PLASTIC CARDBOARD RUBBER

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 6. Reorder items collected into recyclable and non-recyclable. Place your
answer in table 2.

Table 2: recyclable or non-recyclable

recyclable Non-recyclable

Q1. What alternative uses can you think of for those objects which cannot be
recycled to help stop waste?
Q2. What other recyclable objects can you see in the classroom and where
they were recycled from?
Q3. Discuss to the class what is already being recycled at school (include
items that are re-used).
Q4. What will happen to our waste if we do not reuse or recycle it?

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