Things To Do

1. Put a clear plastic bag in your garbage bin at home, so you can see what types of waste your family throws out. Over a week, note down the most common types of waste produced in your house.
2. If we don't reduce our waste, soon we will start running out of places to put it! Write a story about having to live in a "World of Garbage".
3. Do you think the amount and types of waste we produce today is different to that produced fifty years ago, or even a hundred years ago? Write down some differences you might expect.

What is Waste?

Waste is the name given to everything that we throw away. After it is collected from your rubbish bin, some waste is burned, but most of it is buried in big holes in the ground called landfill sites. This causes problems because both burning and burying release chemicals which are bad for the environment. We are also running out of places to bury rubbish!
Reducing the amount of waste we produce has many benefits:
1.It conserves valuable resources, including forests, minerals, petroleum, and energy.
2.It saves money.
3.It helps the environment, because it reduces the amount of pollution, greenhouse gases, and disturbance of nature.