Teaching and Learning Programme – Recycling and Rubbish Reduction in East Riding of Yorkshire

1. Teaching and Learning Programme – Recycling and Rubbish Reduction in East Riding of Yorkshire Lesson texts

2. Module breakdown Module 1 – Don’t drop litter. Why not? Module 2 – What a load of rubbish Module 3 – What’s in your rubbish? Module 4 – Produce less. Create more!

3. Using the Presentation Students will access from home via the Internet and the VLE Delivered to whole class by projector/ interactive whiteboard Presentation on shared drive Print-outs can be sent to absentees School Network Shared Drive/VLE Accessed by individual students on screen Print-outs support homework Notes View pages used as reference Used by learning support assistants

4. MODULE ONE Don’t drop litter. Why not?

5. Litter = Rubbish = Waste = Resource Litter is more than an eyesore. It is a hazard. Think of some of the problems this may cause. Fire Safety Litter Health Threat to wildlife

6. Problems caused by litter Did you know • Every 12 minutes a fire starts because of litter Litter is a Fire Hazard • Thousands of car and bicycle accidents happen each year because of litter Litter is a Safety Hazard

7. Problems caused by litter Did you know • Rats live in litter - they have fleas that carry disease Litter is a Health Hazard • Thousands of animals choke on litter each year Litter is a Threat to Wildlife

8. Litter facts Litter can take months or even years to rot away (biodegrade).Think of some materials that can take several months to rot away. A paper bag A newspaper A cotton shirt Orange peel Paper

9. Litter facts Some materials take many years to rot away. Can you think of any? Plastic bags Metal containers Leather Takeaway containers Discuss how many years you think it will take for these pieces of rubbish to rot away.

10. ? Litter facts Plastic bags Up to 20 years Metal containers Leather Up to 100 years Up to 40 years Keep East Riding of Yorkshire Tidy Just think how much decomposing litter (litter that is rotting away) is lying on our planet!

11. L k Prevent litter - reduce waste How can picking up litter make a difference? What do you think? Some examples: • You are making the area more beautiful • You are setting an example for others to get rid of litter themselves • You are making it less likely that others will drop litter because the area is clean and tidy • You are reducing the amount of waste in your area. after East Riding of Yorkshire - it’s a beautiful place to live, let’s keep it that way.

12. MODULE ONE Activities

13. Activity 1 What hazards can litter cause? Task 1 What hazards do you think litter causes apart from looking untidy and spoiling the countryside? • Fire hazards • Safety hazards • Health hazards • Threats to wildlife

14. A newspaper A baked bean can A cotton shirt Some orange peel A leather belt Activity 2 How long does it take for litter to rot away? Task 2 Discuss how long it would take for the following objects to rot away:

15. MODULE TWO What a load of rubbish!

16. ERYC waste facts In 2005/06 East Riding of Yorkshire Council collected 200.000tonnes of household waste. This doesn’t include waste produced by factories and businesses - that is called commercial waste. Almost all of the household waste was buried in landfill sites. • 50.000 tonnes of household waste was recycled. That was 25% of the waste collected 2005/6 records show that: • Councils all round the country have been set targets for recycling waste • East Riding of Yorkshire Council must recycle 45% of household waste by 2010. To hit this target we all need to help!

17. Amount of waste collected by ERYC in 2005/06

18. Amount of waste that needs to be recycled by ERYC by 2010

19. How you can help ERYC achieve their recycling target Think about places in East Riding of Yorkshire where you can take your rubbish to be recycled. • Some supermarket car parks, leisure centres, pub car parks, outside schools These are called bring sites – ERYC has 143 bring sites Do you know where your nearest bring site is?

20. Recycling with Shopping Using Bring Sites

21. How you can help ERYC achieve their recycling target • What else can you do? Household waste recycling sites (the tip) – ERYC has 10 of these sites • What can you do at home?

22. Recycling our rubbish Most of you now have a blue wheelie bin at home to use for recycling. This is called kerbside recycling. Use your blue wheelie bin for rubbish that can be recycled - paper and magazines, food and drink cans and plastic bottles Take glass to the glass banks (at most bring sites). Garden and kitchen waste can also be recycled (composted) at home. ERYC sell home composting bins at a reduced price.

23. Kerbside recycling facts In 2005/06 East Riding of Yorkshire Council collected 8,814tonnes of waste material from kerbside blue wheelie bins for recycling. Records show that: 7,756 tonnesof this recycled material was paper and magazines. 529tonnes was food and drinks cans. 529tonnes was plastic bottles.

24. Home Composting • Composting kitchen and garden waste is natures way of recycling. • Compost returned to the soil is good for growing more healthy plants. • Reduces need for artificial fertilisers that can damage the environment.

25. ERYC Kerbside Recycling during 2005/06

26. Recycling our rubbish • Use your blue bin for kerbside recycling. • Start home composting – its great for your garden and the environment. • Remember, only use your greenwheelie bin for rubbish that can’t be recycled like polystyrene and tissues.

27. Facts and figures Just look at these figures. 25% What percentage is recycled? Do you think this is enough?

28. Waste sites in East Riding of Yorkshire

29. Landfill If you don’t recycle where does the rubbish go? It goes to landfill

30. Facts about landfill What do you know about it? Landfill– is when untreated rubbish is tipped into holes in the ground. When the hole is full the top is covered and the ground is returned to other uses. New landfill sites are becoming harder to find. In East Riding of Yorkshire there is plenty of beautiful countryside - but do we want to pollute it with rubbish and create lots of ugly tips across our area?

31. Facts about landfill So what can we do instead of sending our rubbish to landfill? Here is a landfill site in East Riding of Yorkshire.

32. Imagine what the Humber Bridge would look like piled high in a year’s worth of rubbish.

33. MODULE TWO Activities

34. Activity 3 Facts and figures Task 3 Using the figures provided on factsheets 1 and 2 create a pie chart or graph showing the amount of waste sent to landfill and the amount of waste recycled (in tonnes). Create a second pie chart or graph to show how much waste will have to be recycled to meet the 45% target for 2010.

35. Fact sheet 1 ERYC waste facts In 2005/6 East Riding of Yorkshire Council collected 200,000tonnes of household waste. This doesn’t include waste produced by factories and businesses - that is called commercial waste. Almost all of the household waste was buried in landfill sites. In 2005/06, records show that: • 50,000 tonnes of household waste was recycled. That was 25% of the waste collected • Councils all round the country have been set targets for recycling waste • East Riding of Yorkshire Council must recycle 45% of household waste by 2010. To hit this target they need everyone’s help!

36. Fact sheet 2 Facts and figures Discuss in groups what percentage of waste collected is recycled.

37. MODULE THREE What’s in your rubbish?

38. What’s in your rubbish? An average family will produce 1,250 kilograms of household waste each year. What else would weigh this much? A small car like a Mini! Unfortunately, your household waste is bulkier (takes up more space) than a Mini Cooper and fills at least a wheelie bin every week.

39. What’s in your rubbish? • In 2005/06, ERYC produced 200,000 tonnesof household waste • A wheelie bin holds approximately 10 kilograms of waste • Therefore, in 2005/06, ERYC’s waste filled 20,000,000 wheelie bins. If you stood these wheelie bins side by side they would stretch from Spurn to Flamborough and back 58 times!

40. What’s in your rubbish? Discuss what rubbish is in your bin at home. Here are some examples of the rubbish that a typical bin contains: Textiles Organic waste (like vegetable peelings) 3% Newspapers and magazines 20% 16% Paper and card (mostly packaging) Glass bottles and jars 30% 6% Metal cans 9% Plastics (bottles and bags) Other waste materials 8% 8% Note: figures provided are percentages of overall weight

41. Percentages of different types of rubbish

42. MODULE THREE Activities

43. Activity 4 What do you think is in your bin? Task 4 Using the information provided on factsheet 3 produce a bar chart or pie chart showing the percentages of types of waste in a typical household wheelie bin.

44. Fact sheet 3 What percentages of rubbish? Discuss what rubbish you think there is most of in a typical bin. Textiles Organic waste (like vegetable peelings) 3% Newspapers and magazines 20% 16% Paper and card (mostly packaging) Glass bottles and jars 30% 6% Metal cans 9% Plastics (bottles and bags) Other waste materials 8% 8% Note: figures provided are percentages of overall weight

45. Activity 5 What do you think is in your bin? • Task 5 • Family Survey – how much household waste do you think your family produces in one week? • As a class, discuss what types of waste should be counted in columns on your survey chart • Fill in the heading for each column • Show the days of the week in the rows of the chart • Using the ‘Household Waste Survey’ chart you have designed, collect information each day that will show the types of waste that are thrown away in your house • Count the number of items for each column and enter the information each day.

46. Activity 6 What do you think is in your bin? • Task 6 • Decide the best way to show the results of your survey. This can be done by hand or using a computer.

47. MODULE FOUR Produce less. Create more!

48. Think before you junk! The National Waste Strategy 2000 said that councils must recycle more waste instead of just dumping it! So what can you do to help? The strategy suggests ways of producing less waste. What do you think these might be? Reduce Reuse This is called the waste hierarchy! Recycle Recover

49. Reduction Discuss what you think is meant by reduction of waste. Reduction meanssendingless waste to landfill. A tonne of waste prevented is a tonne less to bury

50. Reuse Discuss what you think is meant by reuse of waste. Reuse means reusing things, such as glass bottles, returnable plastic crates, shoes, spectacles or even computers. Some products are designed to be reused a number of times.