Recommendations

Reducing, reusing and recycling plastic in the LCV Community

 Recycling

Recycling bins with labels

• Next to normal bins
• Made from old canisters
• Set up by students
• Picked up by Reciclar, Renarec or
Emaseo
 Recycling of Plastic

Recycling day at school

• Students create:
• recycling bins
• Chairs from plastic
• Vertical garden
• Kites
 Recycling

Promote recycled materials

• School utilities are provided
• Recycled pens
• folders
 Worksheet Activity
Worksheet 4&56
Activity
Worksheet
Worksheet
Worksheet
Experiment Activity
Activity
Activity
degradability
Build a kite from 13bags
2 plastic
plastic
In theMaterials: Planting
experiment, aBuild
plastic plants
bag and for
a the
paper
Creating classrooms
abag are and
compared
recycling bin vertical
outdoor chairs out of plastic bottles gardens
in order to find out whether
the Introduction
bags are degradable.
 what objects can be recycled?
• Plastic bag
Materials: Materials:
• • Plastic
Straws or sticks
Bottles
• • Plastic bottles
• PlasticTape• BagsPlastic bag (not supermaxi)
Materials: • Soil (not from school yard)
• • TetraLine•Packs Paper bag
• Knife
• • Paper •
Optional: Empty
Shoveltoilet paper• role 24 2 liter plastic•bottles
Lines
• Space in the yard with soil
Why is recycling important? • Tape • Food scraps (like the pictures
• Plastic wrappingshow)
Instructions:
• Plastic pollutes the environment • Scissors • water
• 1. Otherwise
Create the plastics
framego tomake a• cross
landfill without
Iron withanythe straws or
Experiment further
sticksuse • Optional: (foam 1. Vertically
to sit softer,cut open the
sewing plastic
machine)
1. •DigResources
bottles (horizontally for carrots)
two holesare limited  with recycling plastic
2. Use the tape or the line to hold the sticks together
3. The smaller stick should be fixed at on third of2.the Fill water into the plastic bottles
2. Putcan thebe reused
plastic bag in one hole and the paper bag into another
length of the longer stick 3. Add the vegetable chunks in the
3. Close the hole with soil and mark the place to find it later on
4. Let4. the Thebagsframe canthere
stay be tiedfor as the pictures belowwater
1-2inmonth
4. When roots or sprouts start to
5. Dig
Build up the bags
a recycling bin for andthelook how they changed and if they are still there
classroom: grow remove the water and plants and
1. Materials:
cut Optional:
open the plastic bottle over the label add soil to the bottle
2. 6.put Also
the top 5. Plant the plants in the soil
digof a the
holebottle
and putupside down
a supermaxi (biodegradable bag) inside
• Empty
inside the plasticcleaning bottlecanister 6. Put the plants either in the
• Knife classroom or add them to a fence with
• Paint, glue and other materials for decoration line to create a vertical garden
Tasks: 7. the PPE students can give
• Pen + paper + glue for the label
1. Write a hypothesis on what is going to happen toinstructions the bags on how to make the
vertical garden
3. 2.takeNote
a second
5.
the changes of the bags
Cut the plastic
sail of bottle
the kite (can be done by cutting of the handles and bottom of the bag,
3. Make a conclusion of what happened to the bags during the experiments
4. Put1.it upsidethen
cut down
cut topinside
open the the
bag open
on are
the plastic
left side)
4. Why dooffyouthethink ofthe
theresults
canister thatas there
they isare
an open bin
bottle
2.6. Use Formthe atop little
fortriangle
making witha leadtheforshorter
the bin,ends on the
or create antop andbin
open cut it of
5. Tape 3.7.the bottles
Connect
Create a labeltogether
the sail to the frame (either tape the frame to the sail or tie it (if tied to the
6. Repeat the frame,
a. firstmake
Take sure the
fivea steps
paper 16 knots
pen are tight)
andtimes
(that8.thereAttach the16
b.willDraw
be flying string
of those)
pictures of the objects you learned about which go into the bin
c. a.GlueTie thea piece
label of
to the
the line
bin
4. Decorate from the bin one side of the
cross
5. Present your recycling bin(s)stick to the other,
6. The classleaving with theitmost
very beautiful
loose to recycling bin will win
7. tape four of thecreate prepared a triangle
bottlesastogether
in
8. Repeat four times the picture
b. tie the end of the rest of
the line to the longer part of the long stick (picture 2), loop under the loosen
line and tie the lines together that it becomes a
pyramid if you hold it at the line
9. Make a balance
a. Tie thin lines of the leftover plastic bag to the
end of the kite, this will help the kite to balance
b. If not heavy enough connect a little weight
10. Let the kite fly!
 Recycling

Plastic free Competitions

• Between classes
• What measures were taken to not
have any plastic at school (in the
classes)
 Reusing

Encourage reuse of utilities

• Pens
• Folders
• Separators
• Paper
 Reusing

School‘s Greenhouse
• Greenhouse made from plastic
bottles
• PPE project
 Reusing

School‘s Greenhouse
• Greenhouse made from plastic
bottles
• PPE project
 Reusing

Decoration
• Make decoration for events from
used plastic
• Bottles
• Bags
• wrapping
 Reducing

Add lunch boxes and bottles to supply list

• Less single use plastic comes in
• Students will be encouraged to use
their reusable items in daily life
 Reusing

Ask supplier from the cafeteria

whether they can bring the food
in reusable boxes or bags rather
than wrapped in plastic
• Supplier can pick up boxes at the
next delivery
 Reusing

Promote reusable bags

• Plastic bags will be reduced
• More people use reusable bags to
bring utilities and other objects to
school
 Name__________________________ Date____________
Planting plants for the classrooms Experiment: degradability plastic
Many plastics can be reused for other purposes. In this case, single-use plastic bottles will be In the experiment, a plastic bag and a paper bag are compared in order to find out whether the
used in order to add plants to the classrooms. TheExperiment ______________________________________
plastic bottles will be used a plant pots. bags are degradable.

Not only plastics can be reused, but a lot of our _____________________________________________

food waste can be regrown as well. This Nowadays, all our stores are filled with items either wrapped in plastic or plastic items
exercise will show, how to regrow certain types of plants and how plastic bottles can get a new themselves. It is a convenient product due to its flexibility as well as stability. Because plastic
purpose. can be used in so many different forms and for almost every purpose, many people do not
Materials: Materials_______________________________________question whether plastic is as good as it seems.
• Plastic bottles _____________________________________________
A lot of plastic materials can be recycled, which means they will get a new purpose and the
• Soil (not from school yard)
_____________________________________________
 The soil needs to be loose, free of
energy put into is will not be wasted. Plastic is made from unrenewable resources, fossil fuels,
which will not regrow. This means that if plastic is recycled, those resources are not wasted.
debris and clods and either loamy or But what happens to the plastic if it does not end up in the recycling stream or it simply cannot
sandy be recycled?
• Knife ______________________________________
Hypothesis
• Lines This experiment will be about what happens to the plastic if it is not recycled properly and thus,
• _____________________________________________
Food scraps (like the pictures show) ends up in our landfills or environments.
• water _____________________________________________
Materials:

Carrots • Plastic bag (not supermaxi or other oxo-

1. Put the carrots
Observation
2.
_____________________________________
Leave them there until the biodegradable bags)
• Paper bag
into a container _____________________________________________
radish grows roots then
• Shovel
with water in it wait a day until the roots
_____________________________________________
are about three inches • Space in the yard with soil
long • Stones and sticks to mark the space
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
3. Cut open the plastic 4. Add the carrots to the soil,
bottle horizontally
_____________________________________________
that most of it is covert, Experiment:
_____________________________________________
and add soil until the but the top bit of the carrot
1. Dig two holes next to each other in the school yard
bottle is filled up still show
(leave 4cm space _____________________________________________
to 2. Put the plastic bag in one hole and the paper bag into the other hole
the top of the bottle 3. Close the hole with soil
4. Mark the places with stones and sticks to find it later on
5. Let the bags stay there for 1-2 month
Results________________________________________ 6. Dig up the bags and look how they changed and if they are still there
5. let the carrots grow and water them if the soil gets dry!
_____________________________________________
Optional:
Spring Onion, Leek and chive _____________________________________________
7. Also dig a hole and put a supermaxi (oxo-biodegradable bag) inside
8. Do the same steps with the supermaxi bag
1. Add the spring onion
_____________________________________________
2. Cut open a plastic bottle 9. Is there a difference between the oxo-biodegradable plastic bag and the plastic bag?
Part with roots to water vertically and add the soil
And leave it there until it until 3 cm to the top of the
Grows roots about 2 ______________________________________
Conclusion
bottle Task: Fill in the investigation sheet!
inches long
_____________________________________________
3. Put the onion to the _____________________________________________
4. Water the onion if the soil is
Soil it should be four dry
inches into the soi _____________________________________________