What a Wasteful World!!! ….that we live in….or do we????
Answer the following questions: Describe what your picture is showing? What time of year do you think it shows? Write a list of the waste that there would be at the time of year of your particular picture Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Your group will be allocated one of these pictures Photo taken by Jeremy Bailey at emybailey/ / Creative Commons Licence emybailey/ / Photo taken by Gracefamily at /gracefamily/ / Creative Commons Licence /gracefamily/ / Photo taken by Aine D at 756/ 756/ Creative Commons Licence
What a waste! Over 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold each year Globally, around a billion valentine cards are sent each year - making the day the second largest card sending holiday of the year – behind Christmas Nestle Kit Kat Easter egg – You pay - £ 3.99 BUT 52% of its weight is edible - the rest is packaging! We throw away 1 billion Christmas cards 8 million Christmas trees 83 million km ² of wrapping paper 1/10th of our annual rubbish is generated at Christmas Photo taken by D'Arcy Norman at Creative Commons Licence
Development Compass Rose You will be using this to help you ask questions about 2 pictures We will do the first example together as a class Image from Tide~ global learning found at Full permission given
N E W S Photo taken by D'Arcy Norman at Creative Commons Licence
N W S E Photo taken by Colin Crowley at Creative Commons Licence
Give examples of what impact waste can have Answer the following questions: Can you think of the impacts of waste? Does this change from one country to another? o How? Does waste have a greater impact on countries that are less developed?
So what is the future? Watch the short clip below – can you think of ways we could manage our waste problem in the future?