What a What a Wasteful Wasteful World!!!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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybailey/450524851/ Creative Commons Licence

Photo taken by Gracefamily at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefamily/2133915592/ Creative Commons Licence

Photo taken by Aine D at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dainec/4925756/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 km² of wrapping paper

1/10th of our annual rubbish is generated at Christmas

Photo taken by D'Arcy Norman at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/251645085/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 www.tidegloballearning.netFull permission given

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Photo taken by D'Arcy Norman at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/251645085/Creative Commons Licence

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Photo taken by Colin Crowley at http://www.flickr.com/photos/newbeatphoto/3726827048/Creative Commons Licence

Give examples of what Give examples of what impact waste can haveimpact 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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH61dU_NKxw&feature=related