Recycling

Watch these videos RECYCLING VIDEO LINKS Visy recycling video The importance of recycling in New Zealand Great Pacific garbage patch How one town produces no trash Read this passage Why Should We Recycle? Every year throughout the whole country our ‘rubbish mountain’ grows. We throw our rubbish into our bins and forget all about it. Where does it go? It gets taken to the local ‘landfill’ site and is buried in the ground. We often call the landfill, the rubbish tip. What happens then? As it rots it produces an explosive gas called methane and liquid filled with nasty poisons sink into our water sources (rivers), polluting them. This becomes a threat to fish, bird life and plants that grow near the rivers. Much of the rubbish we throw away can be ‘recycled’ and used again. · paper · glass · metals · plastic · kitchen and garden waste can be turned into compost. · old furniture and clothes can be sent to be resold or re-used. · Mobile phones · Ink cartridges from printers. Each week in America every household creates huge amounts of rubbish. It’s thought that they throw away. · 3 kg of paper · 1.25 kg of glass · 2 kg of cans and 1kg of plastic All this rubbish goes to a local ‘landfill site’. Why throw it away when we can re-use? Recycling is good for the environment because we don’t just keep taking raw materials to make things but can make things from the rubbish. Also we aren’t putting rubbish in the ground that turns into poisons. And, we aren’t taking up precious land to bury our rubbish in. Recycling questions: 1. Why is recycling important? Recycling is very important as waste has a huge negative impact on the natural environment. Harmful chemicals and greenhouse gasses are released from rubbish in landfill sites. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste. ... Recycling reduces the need for raw materials so that the rainforests can be preserved. 2. What is a landfill site? A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and the oldest form of waste treatment (although the burial part is modern; historically, refuse was just left in piles or thrown into pits). 3. Why is the landfill site bad for the environment? Greenhouse gas. When organic material such as food scraps and green waste is put in landfill, it is generally compacted down and covered. This removes the oxygen and causes it to break down in an anaerobic process. Eventually this releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. 4. What does ‘recycle’ mean? to make something new from (something that has been used before) 5. In you own words describe what global warming is. A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants. Complete the table below. Write down all the things you know which are made of paper , glass, metal and plastic in the blue box. Material 1. Paper 2. Glass Used for 1.Newspaper Magazines Carboard Posters Books Toilet paper Paper masks Paper 2.Windows Mirrors Glass slippers Beer bottles Cars windshield Chromebook screens A doors frame Glass floors Glass table Jars Glass aquarium Material 3. Metals 4. Plastics Used for 1.Pole Forks Nail Car Knife Spoon Monkey bars Metal draws Heaters 2.toys Plastic Baby tubs Glad wrap Equipment Bins Knife Fork Spoon Cup Bottles Plastic bags Bowls Milk bottles Edmund Hillary School In approximately ten sentences or more describe some of the ways your school reduces it’s rubbish and how does it get re used. Our teachers at edmund hillary school are doing their very best to teach all of edmund hillary school kids about to recycle properly and if we do not our homes will be full with garbage that get mouldy and smelly.That is why the teachers are teaching us especially room 1’s teacher is teaching her student about it.She says if we do not recycle and put rubbish and milk cartons in the right bins we will have no more free milk we will run out of food because we can not recycle because we are putting the recyclables in the right bin and then we will run out food and if the people who gives us the free milk catch any milk cartons into the rubbish bin then we will have no more free milk and if we put heaps of rubbish in the landfill then we will run out of space to live. 1.For pot culture, the soil should consist of three parts turfy loam to one of leaf-mould and thoroughly rotted manure, adding enough pure grit to keep the compost porous. 2.The urine should be allowed to putrefy, as in its decomposition a large amount of ammonia is formed, which should then be fixed by sulphuric acid or gypsum; or it may be applied to the growing crops after being freely diluted with water or absorbed in a compost heap. Liquid manures can be readily made from most of the solid manures when required, simply by admixture with water. 3.On this should be laid at least a foot thick of coarse, hard, rubbly material, a layer of rough turf, grass side downwards, being spread over it to prevent the compost from working down. Composting What is composting? Compost is nature's way to recycling and to help us make room for our planet instead of How can it help to reduce the rubbish problem? We can help by using reusable bags because plastic bags take ages to break down. How can you create a compost heap? Start by spreading a layer that is several inches thick of coarse, dry brown stuff, like straw or corn stalks or leaves, where you want to build the pile. Complete the table Word Meaning Use the word in a sentence Biodegradable Very capable of being destroyed into little pieces like a piece of lego. Biodegradable can destroy a piece of lego. Compost A decayed mixture of plants (such as leaves and grass) that is used to improve the soil in a garden. A composted plants Ecosystem Everything that exists in a particular environment. A ecosystem keeps living things alive Emissions The act of producing or sending out something (such as energy or gas) from a source. Emissions send out gas Environment The aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. Their are environment all around us Fumes Fumes are smoke Fumes are smoke Fuel Fuel is what powers up cars or any moving vehicle Fuel is what powers up cars. Landfill It is when rubbish gets put into the ground Rubbish gets put into the landfill Organic It may kill animals Organic kills animals Plastic Plastic is used for many things like playing with and holding it Plastic sometimes are played with. Recycle Recycling is when old stuff gets made into new stuff Recycling is when old stuff gets made into new stuff Toxic poisonous.: "the dumping of toxic waste""alcohol is toxic to the ovaries". Toxic waste Poisonous Poison kills you if you touch or scare it like a poisonous snake that kills Poison kills you Decompose To separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate. The egg began to decompose after a day in the sun. Polluted Made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted. Polluted is when things become unclean Soil Soil is what makes plants grow. Soil is what makes plants grow. Litter Somebody left a piece of rubbish on the ground. Somebody littered Conserve To prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss. Conserve the woodlands Reduce To bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number. I reduced my rubbish Carb Carbon dioxide a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. It is naturally present in air (about 0.03 percent) and is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is what we