Waste
Hate Waste
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use.
Local, regional, and global air pollution; accumulation and distribution of toxic wastes; destruction and depletion of forests, soil, and water; depletion of the ozone layer and emission of "green house" gases threaten the survival of humans and thousands of other living species, the integrity of the earth and its biodiversity, the security of nations, and the heritage of future generations.
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Just Eat It
(a food waste documentary)
Follows a Vancouver couple as they decide to eat only rescued food for six months. What they find is shocking:...
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watch free on Knowledge.ca
74 minutes
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Plastic Waste: The Supermarket Challenge
Plastic packaging out of control at your supermarket? We challenge two families to help us uncover why supermarkets aren't doing more to reduce plastic waste. And what really happens to those wrappers and packages after you put them in the blue bin?
Marketplace 22:30
aired January 11, 2019
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Plastic! As well as textile clothing waste in landfills (17:00 mark)/Gr. 6 student clothing swap
Marketplace 22:30 click here
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Simple Steps To Avoid Plastic at the Grocery Store click here
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Love Food -- Hate Waste
4.
The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
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Conservation - 5 ways you can help:
1. embrace meatless Mondays
2. get thrifty
3. watch your carbon footprint
4. seek out sustainability
5. background check your exotic pet
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Clothing Waste.
Fast fashion's dirty secret. We are buying too much! 85% end up in landfills. They don't biodegrade easily. Fashion is one of the world's top polluters.
Marketplace 23:30 click here
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textile clothing waste in landfills (17:00 mark)/Gr. 6 student clothing swap
Marketplace 22:30 click here
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Value Village click here
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PLASTIC
WHAT IN THE WORLD
WATCH ONLINE
Note: The links below are listed at www.lesplan.com/en/links for easy access.
1. Read the Guardian’s article ‘Where Does Your Plastic Go?’ at
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
2. Visit the Canadian Plastics Industry Association website at
https://www.plastics.ca/PlasticTopics/RecyclingPlastics to find out more about different kinds of plastics and the challenges of recycling this material
3. Read ‘Is Canada’s recycling industry broken?’ at
https://globalnews.ca/news/5199883/canada-recycling-programs/
4. Visit the North American Plastics Recycling Alliance website at https://www.plasticsrecyclingalliance.org/
to find out more about continent-wide efforts to recycle plastic.
5. Watch ‘Tracking your plastic: Exposing recycling myths’ on CBC’s Marketplace at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aVYb-a7Uw [20:31]