Sort it out beforeyou throw it out

Fungames and

activities with

Ollie Organics,

Ruby Recycling& Wally Waste

When you throw away stuff in your GENERAL wAstE biN like nappies, chip packets & toothpaste tubes it ends up in.....

Landfill is a large hole in ground where waste is buried and sits for hundreds of years. The rubbish under the soil releases stinky, toxic gases and liquids which pollutes the environment.

Some waste blows away and ends up in parks, gardens and water ways. GroSS!

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Every piece of paper which is recycled can be turned into new books, magazines and even toilet paper! It also saves thousands of trees from being cut down to make more paper!

In Bendigo, recyclable items such as boxes, aerosol cans, juice boxes, tin cans and plastic bottles are taken to a recycling facility where they are sorted, squashed down and sent off to be turned into new products.

ORGANiCs organics is any waste which comes from a plant or animal. Stuff like meat bones, egg shells, food scraps, fruit and vegetables peels, tissue and paper towel – all can go in the green Organics bin.

The compost is then used on gardens and farmers paddocks to make the soil healthier to grow more food.

The organics is collected and taken to a composting facility where it is heated, watered and turned over. After 16 weeks the organic waste is turned into rich, healthy brown compost.

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In Greater Bendigo we only have one major landfill and it’s nearly full up. This means that in the next few years there will be nowhere locally to get rid of the waste that people who live in Greater Bendigo produce.

So what should we do? Should we cart our waste to somewhere else, or should we try even harder to reduce and sort out our waste so it can be recycled into new products?

Hi, this activity book is packed full of fun and interesting puzzles and games to help you learn how to sort out organics, recycling and general waste in Greater Bendigo.

we’ve invited some friends, Ollie Organics, Ruby Recycling and wally waste to help you along the way.

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ORGANICS WASTE RECYCLING

AMAzE ME!

Go through the maze and make sure to get right things in the right bin.

Use a different colour pencil for each item so you

don’t get lost.

Your paths might cross on the way to the bins.

ACROSS2 Pasta sauce and jam come in these containers and can be recycled (5, 3)8 I am white and strong and found in the middle of meat, dogs like to chew on me but people don’t eat me (4, 5)10 Where the contents of your Waste bin end up12 The bits you throw out when you make an omlette, can go in your organics bin (3, 6)13 The process when we turn something into a new product14 Boxes are made from this and goes in your Recycling bin18 Blow your nose on these and can go in your Organics bin19 Container that milk and custard comes in20 Biscuit trays are made with hard _________ and can be recycled21 Something a baby uses and can only go in the Waste bin22 Your vegetable peelings are food ___________ and go in your Organics bin

DOWN1 General term used for stuff you can’t use or don’t want3 What’s left when you finish eating an apple - for the Organics bin (5, 4)4 Mow this and the clippings go in your Organics bin5 I am soft plastic, My flavour could be Chicken or Salt & Vinegar, I go in the waste bin (4, 7)6 Something people read every day - and can go in the Recycling bin7 ___________________ foil, can go in the Recycling bin9 What we makes Sandwiches with, can go mouldy, to be placed in the Organics bin11 Unwanted plants that we pull out, to be placed in the Organics bin15 Any food or garden waste goes in the __________ bin16 Small branches lying in the garden and can go in your Organics bin17 What baked beans and dog food come in, can be recycled (3, 3)

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Find six things that are different in the two pictures, also find one thing that shouldn’t go in the recycling bin. Look carefully : )

What shouldn’t go in the recycling bin: ____________________________________

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MEATPASTAPAPEr ToWELPLANTSrICE

STICKSTEABAGS VEGETABLESWEEDS YoGHUrT

Look for the words in the list above, look up and down and sideways. Good luck!

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Look for the words in the list above, look up and down and sideways. Good luck!

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wHiCH biN DO i GO iN?QUEstiON wHAt AM i? rECYCLING orGANICS WASTE

1 I am green in colour, grow from seed and can be mowed?

2 I am sturdy, brown and people can pack me with things when moving house?

3 I am soft and white, you can use me to blow your nose.

4 I am soft, sometimes grey or clear and get used to carry groceries?

5 I am a hard, noisy plastic, water is stored in me, you could find me in a sports bag.

6 I’m a tube, I am used in the bathroom, and minty gel is squeezed from me,

7 I am laid by chickens, you can poach or scramble me?

8 I am made from metal, under my label I am silver in colour and have dog food or baked beans packaged in me.

9 I’m in the middle of a chicken drumstick, I am white and strong?

10 I am silver in colour under my label, made from metal and spray nice smelling stuff!

11 I am a hard plastic, I have a sweet dairy product inside, you peel my lid off before you have a big spoonful.

12 I am on the outside of Easter Eggs, I am made from soft metal and can be rolled up, you might wrap a sandwich in me?

13 Babies wear me; I’m a little bit stinky!

14 I am a takeaway food container, I’m brown in colour, the food inside is Italian and round.

15 I am yellow in colour, my shape is curved and you peel me to eat what’s inside!

rECYCLING

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APPLE CORE JUiCE bOX

YOGHURt CONtAiNER

sPRAY CANs

tOOtHPAstE tUbEs bAND AiDs

PLAstiC bAG

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GLAss bOttLE tissUEs

wAtERMELON sKiN DOG FOOD tiNs

ORANGE PEEL sHAMPOO bOttLE

MEAt bONEs PLAstiC bisCUit tRAY

Draw a line to connect the waste item with the correct bin.

Use a YELLoW pencil for rECYCLING, a GrEEN pencil for orGANICS

and a rED pencil for WASTE

MAtCH tHE RiGHt tHiNG FOR tHE RiGHt biN AMAzE ME!2

Make your way through the squiggly mazes to get your organic scraps and

recycling to the bin.

Here’s a tricky little puzzle. Unscramble the letters below to make the words of rECYCLING items. once you’ve done that,

unscramble the letters in the cirlces to make the word missing in the sentence below.

Try and find the matching picture in the jumbled mess. Look carefully, some things might look the same but are a little bit different.

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These waste items all go in the Bin.

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DiD YOU KNOw?Each year the City of Greater Bendigo collects over 25,500 tonnes of general waste and over 10,500 tonnes of recycling from nearly 50,000 homes.

The City also collects more than 10,000 tonnes of organic waste from more than 38,000 homes. Now that’s a lot of waste and recycling!

Even though Junk Mail is recyclable, Australians still send 1.9 million tonnes

to landfill each year!

In primary schools, most of the waste is either recyclable material or compostable

organics, the rest is general waste.

16% 22% 48% 14%OTHER

RECYCLABLEMATERIALS

GENERALWASTE

GARBAGE

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ORGANICMATERIAL

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Here’s a tricky little puzzle. Unscramble the letters below to make the words of orGANIC items. once you’ve done that,

unscramble the letters in the cirlces to make the word missing in the sentence below.

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The organic waste we collect is made into and used for parks and gardens.

DiD YOU KNOw?Not all plastics are the same. There is soft plastic and hard plastic.

When you buy a packet of biscuits, the plastic wrapping is soft plastic and can’t be recycled. The tray the biscuits sit in is hard plastic and can be recycled.

It can be a bit confusing. The easy way to tell the difference between soft and hard plastic is scrunch testing.

If you scrunch plastic in your hand and it forms its shape again, it’s hard plastic. If it squishes into a ball, it’s soft plastic. Easy.

wRAPPiNG SoFT PLASTIC

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This booklet has been produced by City of Greater Bendigo www.bendigo.vic.gov.au

CROsswORDACROss2 Glass Jars8 Meat Bones10 Landfill12 Egg Shells13 recycle14 Cardboard18 Tissues19 Carton20 Plastic21 Nappy22 Scraps

DOwN1 Waste3 Apple Core4 Grass5 Chip Packets 6 Newspaper7 Aluminium9 Bread11 Weeds15 organics16 Sticks17 Tin Can

UNsCRAMbLE 1TIN CANMILK CArToNGLASSBISCUIT TrAYNEWSPAPEr

These waste items all go in the RECYCLiNG Bin.

UNsCRAMbLE 2MEAT BoNESAPPLE CorEWEEDSFooD SCrAPS

The organic waste we collect is made into COMPOst and used for parks and gardens.

wHiCH biN DO i GO iN?1 GrASS orGANICS2 CArDBoArD BoX rECYCLING3 TISSUE orGANICS4 PLASTIC BAG WASTE5 PLASTIC BoTTLE rECYCLING6 TooTHPASTE TUBE WASTE7 EGGS orGANICS8 TIN CAN rECYCLING9 MEAT BoNES orGANICS10 AEroSoL CAN rECYCLING11 YoGHUrT TUB rECYCLING12 ALUMINIUM FoIL rECYCLING13 NAPPY WASTE14 PIZZA BoX rECYCLING15 BANANA PEEL orGANICS

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MAtCH tHE RiGHt tHiNG FOR tHE RiGHt biNAPPLE CorE – Organics JUICE BoX – RecyclingGLASS BoTTLE – Recycling TISSUES – OrganicsPLASTIC BAG – waste SPrAY CANS – RecyclingWATErMELoN SKIN – Organics DoG FooD TINS – RecyclingTooTHPASTE TUBES – waste BAND AIDS – wasteorANGE PEEL – Organics SHAMPoo BoTTLE – RecyclingYoHUrT CoNTAINEr – Recycling WEEDS – OrganicsMEAT BoNES – Organics PLASTIC BISCUIT TrAY – Recycling

What shouldn’t go in the recycling bin: BANANA PEEL