Our Enquiry

What is our enquiry all about?

Using the clues write a list of possible enquiry questions in the front of your book. Clue 1

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Your Enquiry Questions

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Our Waste Story

What is packaging? Is it necessary?

What do we do with our waste packaging?

Where does our rubbish go once it has been collect?

What problems are that are linked to waste disposal?

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My families shopping!

What do you buy?

Make a list of 5 products (things) that your family buy when you do your food shopping.

You have 3 minutes.

My families shopping

Packaging: The wrapping around a product that contains, identifies, describes, protects, displays and promotes the product.

E.g. A chocolate bar wrapper

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My families shopping

For each of the products that you have listed:

1. Describe the packaging2. Say whether or not you think that the

packaging is needed.3. Say what you do with the packaging once

you have used the product.

Answer the questions using full sentences.

Worldwide waste production

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Waste production

The UK produces over 200 million tonnes of waste every year!

The average person creates ½ a tonne of waste each year.

That’s a Land Rover Discovery worth of waste for every 5 people!

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Our waste

How much waste is produced every year in Rotherham?

Where does the waste go?

Search the room to find the answers

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Our feelings

• Rotherham produces120,000 tonnes of waste each year

• That is enough to fill Millmoor (Rotherham United’s football ground) twice!

• Most of that waste goes to landfill – big holes in the ground!

• What are your thoughts and feelings?