Homework: Due in MONDAY Create a pie chart tracking your households domestic waste. Cans, paper,...

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Homework: Due in MONDAY• Create a pie chart tracking your household’s

domestic waste.– Cans, paper, food waste, electrical waste, plastic

• How do you think your waste production varies a) Over the course of the year (summer -Christmas)b) To a family in Bangladesh?

Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in

the US every fifteen minutes

Why do we produce so much waste?Match up the figures with the descriptions- write them in

your book-Average daily output of solid waste alone from Asia’s largest cities:- Amount of waste the people on the Ivory Coast generate a year:-The poorest 20% consume only what percentage of the world’s products?:- Percentage of household waste produced by packaging:-Number of tonnes of e-waste generated every year:

760,00050 million351.3200

-Average daily output of solid waste alone from Asia’s largest cities: 760,000- Amount of waste the people on the Ivory Coast generate a year: 200kg-The poorest 20% consume only what percentage of the world’s products?: 1.3%- Percentage of household waste produced by packaging: 35%-Number of tonnes of e-waste generated every year. 50 million

Why do HIC’s produce so much waste?Commodities HIC (%usage) LIC (%usage)

Protein Food 45 5

Energy 58 4

Telephone lines 74 1.5

Paper 84 1.1

Motor Vehicles 87 1

1. What is the relationship between wealth of a country and the amount waste they produce?

2. What is the relationship between the wealth of a country and the type of waste they produce?

Table showing consumption of world’s products

• Packaging:– Primary: the wrapping or the containers that are

handled by the consumer.– Secondary: the larger cases or boxes that are used

to group quantities of primary-packaged goods for distribution and for display in shops.

– Transit: the wooden pallets, the cardboard and plastic wrapping and the containers that are used to enable the loading, transport and unloading of goods

Why do we produce so much waste?

In pairs• Produce an annotated design of your

packaging explaining how it protects the product– Present your design explaining it’s

environmentally friendly aspects using DATA from the books

• Use the textbooks and packaging ideas to help you.

A computer An Easter egg A ready meal

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