green challenges

The recycle-more gang invites you to take on their recycling challenges. You can try them out in your school or at home:

1. Imagine you manage your own supermarket. What sort of things can you do to reduce the amount of waste created by the products you sell? Why not visit your local supermarket and check if you can see where they could reduce packaging.

2. Name three ways that each of these items can be reused instead of
   being thrown away, (you can use the whole thing or only part of it):
   • cardboard box
   • plastic milk carton
   • glass jar
   • wooden board
   • plastic bag
   • newspaper

3. Visit your local supermarket or look around your home to see how many examples of household hazardous waste there are. Find out about safer, more natural alternatives that could take the place of some of these items.

4. At school why not find out which 'recyclable' item makes up the largest percentage of your rubbish, then look at ways to recycle it!

5. Try and find different ways you can reduce how much paper you use and how you can reuse paper.

   

6. Make a list of things around your house that you could donate to a charity or a community warehouse instead of throwing them out.

7. How can you or your family cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive at home?

8. At home, look at ways of making your own compost, which is healthy for plants and good for the environment.