To fill up our time, this is what we did- A recycling box! I want to introduce the habits of recycling to my kids (well, not me- am exaggerating! lt was Aimaan's idea to have a recycling bin in our house to avoid waste after he learnt from his kindergarden. Sadly they don't encourage this in his school. )
Anyway.. today we choose paper, why?
(taken from http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Facts_About_Recycling_Paper)
- A typical office generates about one pound of paper per employee and that from that paper, 77 percent of what is wasted in offices across the country is recyclable.
- Most of the paper wasted is high grade paper.
- Using old paper to make new paper uses 30 to 50 percent less energy than making paper from trees.
- Pollution is also reduced by 95 percent when used paper is made into new sheets.
- 40 percent of all waste going to landfills is paper. Cutting down on paper waste will extend the lives of our landfills.
- Newspaper can be recycled into egg cartons, game boards, new newspaper, gift boxes, animal bedding, insulation and packaging material.
- Office paper is recycled into paper towels, tissue paper and toilet paper.
- Corrugated cardboard is created into new cardboard and cereal boxes.
and yes...even we DO use & throw a lots of paper in our home! Everyday...
So this is how we did..
1) Things that we need:
1) box 2) glue & scissors 3) color paper- BLUE (blue os for Paper) 4)pencil 5) colour pen 6) 1 A4 paper
2) Using the box, trace the outline of the box shape on the color paper with pencil and cut it accordingly . ( we didn't take picture of this!- soo excited to do!)
3) Using glue, paste the colour paper on around the box
4) Once you are done, you can take the A4 paper, label it and decorate it as you wish.
5) And that's all. Easy right? Recycling a box for a recycling bin
Excited with his recycling box. :)
