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Protecting our Environment

The following table gives a list of common items which are used weekly by most households in Britain.

The idea of this activity is to do it TWICE, once giving ideal answers, and once giving real answers of what is done in your house at the moment. See how well you do compared with your classmates.

Definitions

Reduce - To be aware that you are not using excessive quantities. e.g. When boiling water in a kettle
Reuse - To use a product for a second time without changing it in any way
Recycle - To take the product somewhere where it may be processed in order to be reused

What happens to .......	We should .......				In our house we ......
	Reduce	Reuse	Recycle	Throw Away	Reduce	Reuse	Recycle	Throw Away
Potato peelings ?
The daily newspaper ?
Milk bottles, that are delivered by the milkman ?
Empty jam jars (and broken panes from the greenhouse from last time dad played football !!) ?
The branches that were trimmed from the hedge last month ?
The old computer that is no longer used ?
The dozens of plastic bags used to carry shopping home in each week ?
Baked bean tins ?
The old tasteless Hawaiian shirts that dad no longer wears ( and quite frankly, should never have worn in the first place !) ?
The cardboard packaging around last nights ready meal ?
The left over food at the end of the meal ?
The endless stack of advertising leaflets that come through the letterbox from companies you will never use ?

Once you have completed the two exercises above, you should then go on to the suggestions page, which suggests a few ways in which you might be able to do a little bit more for the environment.

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