Thinking about Rubbish

Today we had a re-think about the impact that rubbish has on our environment. We often think of adding plants and trees to help beautify the environment, but we don't think too much about what we can do to stop the environment from becoming polluted with our waste. When you think about it, we make a lot of unnecessary waste.

You wouldn't like having your rubbish dumped into your backyard, but each week we ALL dump hundreds of tonnes of waste into EVERYBODY'S backyard (the landfill)! Why do we keep doing it?

We watched a video about rubbish...

Here are some questions we can think about...

• What is a landfill for?
• What should NOT go into a landfill?
• Is there a way we can reduce the amount of landfill rubbish?
• Could we ever live in such a way as NOT to need a landfill?​
• Think about your lunchbox... is there something in it, that will end up in the landfill? How can you eliminate that from your lunch next time?