Primary School – Education Activity 3

Objectives

• Discover recycling facilities surrounding home area
• Learn about the recovery process
• Understand the concept of “Recycling Works, Reuse Works Better”
• Understand the principles of “7Rs of A Zero Waste Lifestyle” and foster waste reduction habits

Reference and Resources

• Recycle means everything? education video (Available at “Videos”)
• Recycle means everything? worksheet (Available at “Downloads” )
• Refer to Chapter 1.3 Recycling Snapshot of Hong Kong and Chapter 4.3 7Rs of A Zero Waste Lifestyle

Content／Steps

Before the activity

Students should search out for recycling facilities near home, take photos of them and make prints.

1. Divide students into groups and hand out Recycle means everything? worksheet to each group to finish Part One of the worksheet.
2. Play Recycle means everything? education video clip and discuss with students about the behaviour of the character in the video. Learn about how waste is generated in the name of recycling and highlight the concept of “Recycling Works Reuse Works Better”.
3. Ask students to finish Part Two of the worksheet.
4. Explain the principles of “7Rs of A Zero Waste Lifestyle”
5. Ask students to finish Part Three of the worksheet.

Further discussion／activities

• Have you ever made the same mistakes like the character in the video believing that “recycle” solve all waste problems?
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  “Recycle” is one of the solutions for waste problems. We should recycle when a product reaches the end of its life so that resources could be recovered. However, if we continue to buy products freely and recycle new, perfect, or unused items, it would actually work against the goal of reducing waste and instead lead to increased waste.

Teaching tips

• The activity can be an individual instead of a group activity, or assigned as homework.