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

manila paper
pentel pens
colored pens
art papers
Trash bin filled with trash. For example: - scrap paper - tin cans
- toilet paper rolls - empty boxes
- 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.
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?

b. What makes up the wastes in your school?

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

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

Kind of Wastes Name of the wastes Household Wastes School Wastes

Note: After identifying the kinds of waste in the school or household put
check inside the table if these wastes are found in school or household.
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 CARAGA).?
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?

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.
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?
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
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?

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3. Continue reading the article until you finish. Answer the table

Statement TRUE OR FALSE

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. 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