SUSTAINABILITY: WASTE AND LITTER. What is waste? Who creates waste? What is litter? Who creates litter? List of common waste. Domestic waste. Food waste.

1. WASTE AND LITTER
PLANET EATER
SUSTAINABILITY UNIT
PRESENTATION 4

3. WHAT IS THE WASTE?
Waste is anything we throw away.
Examples of waste: drink cans, newspapers, plastic bottles,
bags, cardboard boxes, uneaten food.
Another word for waste is rubbish.
Waste is collected by the rubbish collectors.

5. WHO CREATES WASTE?
All people on Earth creates waste.
Every time we throw away things we create waste and
we waste precious materials.
Waste is bad for the environment because it can harm
and kill plants, animals and humans.

7. WASTE ACTIVITY

8. WHAT IS LITTER?
Litter is rubbish that has been dropped carelessly or waste
disposed of improperly.
Paper, plastics glass, metal cans or scraps of food can
become litter if they are not put in the right place for
collection.
Litter makes our streets or beaches to look messy.

10. WHO CREATES THE LITTER?
People who happily drop their rubbish in public places or
people who forget or do not care that someone else will
have to clear up.
Business create a lot of litter, mostly in the industrial areas.
People drop most of the litter in the town, around fast-food
outlets, restaurants or shops.

12. A LIST OF COMMON WASTE
Household waste
Commercial waste
Demolition waste
Industrial waste
Clinical waste
Radioactive waste
Explosives waste
Electronic waste, etc.

13. DOMESTIC WASTE
Most of our daily activities produce some sort of waste.
Around the home, in our rubbish bin and recycle bin we can find:
• Paper
• Food
• Garden waste
• Glass
• Metal
• Wood
• Rubber and leather
• Textiles
• Plastic
• Nappies and sanitary

14. FOOD WASTE
Food waste comes from those parts of plants and
animals that we cannot eat.
Food is also wasted when it get too old to eat.
Recycling food cut downs pollution and reduces
waste.
Many Aucklanders are great recyclers, but on average
about 800 kg per capita of industrial, commercial and
domestic waste is sent to landfill each year.
That’s a total of about 1.2 million tonnes per year.
Two thirds of this can be recycled or composted,
saving it from landfill.

15. ACTIVITY
Give some examples of food waste from
your home (banana skins, egg shells, meat
and fish bones, bread):
1. ________________________________________
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3. ________________________________________
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7. ________________________________________
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10. _______________________________________
Source: Auckland City Council, (2012), Getting
Auckland’s Waste Sorted.

16. HOW FOOD WASTE IS RECYCLED?
ACTIVITY
Food and garden waste is recycled through a five-
stage process.
This process begins when we recycle used food and
garden waste and it ends with plant food.