Reducing, reusing and recycling. By Sarah Lewis.

The Different Uses (10 uses for yesterday’s newspaper) 1.To start a fire. 2.Wrapping dirty nappies. 3.Using for papier-mâché. 4.For making origami shapes. 5.For wrapping up broken glass. 6.For wrapping around fish and chips. 7.For lining the bottom of a bird cage. 8.For wrapping for a game of Pass the Parcel. 9.Putting under your artwork to stop paint making a mess. 10.Screwing into balls to use for packaging around a present.

The Reverse (Things that cannot be recycled.)  Disposable nappies  Polystyrene  Car tyres  Cars  Bricks  Batteries  Engine oil  Nuclear waste  Steel cables/barbed wire (Some of these can be re-used though...)

The Question (the answer is worm farms…) Q. Where can you put your kitchen scraps? A.In a worm farm Q. Where can you get the best fertiliser for free? A.From a worm farm. Q. Which fertiliser has the greatest ability to retain water? A.Worm cast (worm poo) from a worm farm. Q. Where can you see thousands and thousands of baby worms? A.In a worm farm. Q. Where can you find worms that live in a soil that is different to the soil that garden worms live in? A.In a worm farm. Q. How can you keep thousands of worms in a small container? A.Have a worm farm. Q. Where can you put old paper towels, tea bags, bread scraps, cereal, ice-cream, meat, fish, egg shells, dairy products and most organic waste? A.In a worm farm. Q. What is a good use for an old car tyre? A. Making a worm farm. Q. Where can you put the tiger worm Eisenia fetida? A.In a worm farm. Q. What can eat it’s own weight in food each day? A. A worm in a worm farm.

The Brainstorm (How can we get NZers to reduce, reuse and recycle?) Ways to encourage reducing, reusing and recycling. Ways to encourage reducing, reusing and recycling. Plan meals and buy only what you need. Use boxes instead of plastic bags when you can. Encourage people to use cloth nappies more often. Give people “No Junk Mail” stickers for their mailboxes. Compost kitchen scraps. Ask city councils to start recycling more kinds of plastics Use junk mail for paper crafts. Buy good quality toys that won’t easily break. Pay people for their recyclable items. Make it easier for companies to use type 1 and 2 plastics. Try to buy things that are packaged in recyclable materials.

The Brick Wall (What can our class do to help?) Instead of throwing our rubbish away, we should try to: reduce the amount of rubbish we make, reuse things whenever we can, recycle where we can. As a class we can: Have one rubbish bin for unrecyclable things, one for things we can recycle, like 1 and 2 plastics, and another bin for paper rubbish. Make a class worm farm for our lunch food scraps. Encourage the class to use paper lunch wrap which can be recycled instead of plastic wrap. Keep paper which is used on only one side for artwork.

Any questions?