Composting and Recycling. Information
Worksheet
Trash has always been everything that we no longer good for anything. However, this concept
has changed much in recent years and now we are all aware that the garbage it can have
utility.
Yard and food wastes make up nearly one-third of the waste stream in the Spain, most of
which gets put in landfills or incinerated. Did you know that by simply combining some basic
elements — organic waste, soil, water, and air — you can create ideal conditions for recycling
these wastes naturally? This activity details what composting is and the roles that soil
microbes, oxygen, and moisture play in this process. A game challenges users to start and
maintain their own virtual compost pile.
A program of distributing and recycling waste is developed in the Comunidad de Madrid. We
have to place different kinds of waste in different containers:
CONTAINERS: ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN AND BLUE
OUR HOUSE IS NEAR WASTE CONTAINERS:
- Container orange (sometimes adopt other colors like green): It is pulling the organic
remains, that is all that cannot be recycled: food, ash, diapers, napkins, soiled paper,
sticks, condoms, knives razor ... Some of these wastes can be used for making
compost, used to fertilize the soil and also to retrieve the soil erosion.
- Yellow bin: He will light plastic containers, metal and tetra bricks (water bottles,
yogurt tubs, cleaning bottles, Styrofoam trays, toothpaste tubes, plastic aggregators
unite cans , plastic bags, cans and drink, personal grooming sprays, air fresheners,
aluminum trays, bags, aluminum foil and plastic wrap that are not too dirty, insecticides,
aerosols ...). Plastics have many uses and are easy to recycle. Moreover, as from oil, to
avoid recycling continue extracting the raw material, if two tons of recycled plastic,
save about a crude oil. Metals are also very valuable and recycling uses less energy than
producing new metal from ore. The tetra bricks have different materials, all recyclable.
- Green Container: Glass, metal-top always or cork and where glass used to package
food, and no window glass, flat glass or broken glass, which because of its high lead
content should go to a recycling center, to be treated in another recycling chain. Glass is
one of the easiest materials to recycle and to melt and reshape it saves 93% materials
and 23% of energy.
- Blue bin: Paper and paperboard, not dirty. The envelopes must remove the plastic
windows (which would pull the yellow container) and notebooks, spiral (which would
go to organic). It is advisable to fold the boxes to keep them from taking up extra space.
The paper and cardboard recycling helps reduce deforestation and environmental impact
of its manufacture: recycling by 74% reduces air pollution and 35% of the water.
Before placing containers in yellow and green containers, it should pass by water to
remove as much organic waste as possible.
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We will focus in the orange bin to make compost:
Do Compost
Do Not Compost
leaves, grass, weeds, small garden
clippings, wood ash, pine needles, wood
ash, bark, nutshells, fruit and vegetable
scraps (peels, skins, or seeds), coffee
grounds (including the paper filter), tea
bags, sawdust, newspaper, paper towels,
napkins.
Meat, fish, bones, dairy products,
vegetable oils, fats,
human or pet waste, charcoal ash, plastic
food packaging
and glass containers
Vocabulary
Leaves
grass
weeds
small garden clippings
wood ash
pine needles
bark
nutshells
fruit and vegetable scraps
coffee grounds
tea bags
sawdust
napkins
Meat, fish, bones, dairy products,
vegetable oils, fats,
Human or pet waste, charcoal ash, plastic
food packaging
and glass containers
hojas
pasto
maleza
recortes de jardín
Cenizas
agujas de pino
Corteza de árbol
Cáscaras de frutos secos
Desechos de frutas y hortalizas
Café molido usado
Bolsas de té
Serrín
Servilletas
Carne, pescado, huesos, productos lácteos,
aceites vegetales, grasas,
Desechos humanos o animales, cenizas de
carbón vegetal, envases de plástico para
alimentos y envases de vidrio
Portal del consumidor de la comunidad de madrid
DISCUSSION WORKSHEET
1. Think about the animals found in the compost bin. After a discussion the
class is divided into groups of 4 – 5 children.
2. The smaller groups should think of one creature found in the compost bin and
think about what it looks like and how it moves. (If you have some big pictures
of the creatures this can help start discussions).
3. The group then need to make a large creature using all the children.
4. All the groups need to perform their creature to the other groups to see if
everyone else can guess what they are.
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