Resources

Please find below a list of activities and downloadable resources which can be used to assist you to integrate waste management into your teaching / after school club. They can be adapted to suit the needs of your group.

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Green Waste

• Build a Wormery
• Build a Compost Heap
• Waste Material Leaf Bird
• Compost Timeline (PDF 349kb)

Paper Waste

• Recycling Paper
• Bird Template (PDF 95kb)
• Card Games from Waste
• Bridge It with Waste Paper
• Solution to Bridging It with Waste Paper (PDF 74kb)
• Paper Timeline

Plastic Waste

• Bird Feeders
• Plastic Flower Vases
• Bottle Bowling (Sports Activity)

Metal Waste

• Metal Identification
• Design a Can Crusher
• Pebble Shaker
• Tambourine
• Aluminium Timeline

Textile Waste

• Catwalk Display
• Textile Relay (Sports Activity)
• Build a Scarecrow
• Sock Puppets

Glass Waste

• Frosted Glass
• Smash Crash Poetry
• Glass Recycling Jingle
• Don’t Lose Your Bottle Game
• Glass Timeline

General Waste

• Rubbish Review
• Rubbish Check
• Packaging Audit
• Home/School Waste Diary Questionnaire (Word 40kb)
• Waste as a Discussion Topic
• Why Should We Worry about Waste? (Discussion Topic)
• What Do You Think Survey?
• Mathematical Waste
• A Waste Free Lunch
• Alphabetical Waste
• What Can We Do? Reduce/Reuse/Recycle (Discussion Topic and other Activities)
• Buy Recycled
• School Litter Survey (Word 35kb)

More Resources

• View the following 10 EHS Fact Sheets:
• Fact sheet 1 – Northern Ireland Waste
• Fact sheet 2 – Waste Reduction
• Fact sheet 3 – Reduce, Reuse & Recycle
• Fact sheet 4 – Plastics
• Fact sheet 5 – Composting Waste
• Fact sheet 6 – Paper
• Fact sheet 7 – Cans
• Fact sheet 8 - Glass
• Fact sheet 9 – What Happens to our Waste
• Fact sheet 10 - Energy from Waste
• Belfast Telegraph Educational Supplement
• Go to Business/Greening Government/Awareness Posters to view the following posters:
• Poster 1 – WHAT are you throwing in the SKIP?
• Poster 2 – DON’T bin it…
• Poster 3 – DOUBLE side it!
• Poster 4 – Ignore your car!
• Poster 5 – Help your Staff Restaurant
• Poster 6 – Think before you print
• Poster 7 – Switch it off…

Kids

• Reduce – Say No to Bags (colouring page) (PDF 57kb)
• Reuse – Glass Jars (colouring page) (PDF 55kb)
• Recycle – Cans (colouring by numbers) (PDF 87kb)
• Wake up to Waste (colouring page) (PDF 63kb)
• Wake up to Waste Certificate (PDF 73kb)