Really Rubbish - Story - Keep Cardiff Tidy

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Let’s learn about recycling in Cardiff.

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That’s disgusting!

Our poor planet!

You can help!

Recycle at school!

Quiz time!

My friends!

Did you know
Every month in Cardiff we produce over 140 Tonnes of rubbish.
That’s enough waste to fill up 8 Olympic sized swimming pools!

All that waste has a big impact on our planet! Harmful gases are released into the air that we breathe, and precious resources such as trees, oil, minerals and water are taken from the ground.

If we recycle more of our rubbish, it can be re-used again and again instead of being dumped into disgusting landfill or burnt. Helping to save the planet!

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Ever wondered what happens to all that lovely recycling once it’s picked up by the recycling lorries?

Pick an item below to see where it goes!
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Listen up everyone, ask your teachers if you are all set up for recycling at your school. If not, tell your teachers that it's time to sort it out!

Click on the shapes below for some recycling ideas at school!

If you take your own lunch to school, try to have a waste-free lunch. Use reusable bottles or flasks for drinks instead of throwing them away every time. Get a reusable airtight container for food instead of disposable wrappers. Don't take more food than you can eat.

Organise jumble sales to raise money for your school or a charity. Clothes and toys that you have grown out of might be perfect for somebody else.

Compost your left-over food. Then you could use the compost to grow vegetables! Has your school got room for a veg patch?

Are you a recycling hero?

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Your old clothes, books, CDs and so on are:

a) Always thrown out in the bin b) Given to a charity shop, jumble-sale or otherwise sent to a good home c) Sometimes binned, sometimes charity-shopped, sometimes just lost

When a toy or something in the house breaks, does it?

a) Get dumped in a cupboard and eventually chucked away. b) Get thrown out of the window. My parents will buy me a new one. Whatever! c) Get fixed and fixed until it can't be fixed any more, then break it down to be recycled at a council recycling centre.

Dinner at home is usually:

a) Cooked from scratch and any waste thrown into the food bin b) A takeaway. The paper wrappers are crammed into the bin. c) Just dinner, not sure where it comes from, or where the leftovers go.

Do the things you buy?

a) Come in either little or loads of wrapping, depends what it is and where it’s bought b) Often come wrapped in plastic, paper, foil or other packaging c) Come as they are, or wrapped in the littlest amount of packaging possible