Recycling | |
Explain how you can recycle household waste. |
Hints for reducing wastes
Hints for reusing products
You can dispose of a range of household waste items: Depending on the setup you have at your scout hall, you may find that you can get your cubs to work together to create a compost heap or a worm farm etc at the hall. Otherwise you may have to assist the cubs to plan how to do it at home – in other words, point them in the right direction, usually the internet or your local council. Many local councils provide a great free service whereby one of their environmental officers will go out to the local schools and talk about these topics - you may be able to arrange for one of them to come to a cub night - or maybe a combined-pack night.   |
Pollution | |
Help to clean up litter in your local area |
Participation in the local Clean-Up Australia Day is a good way of doing this! The whole scouting group can participate, and then the photos etc can go into the local paper, giving good publicity for your group too!
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Discuss some effects of pollution on our rivers, lakes and seas |
Stormwater pollution can kill plants and animals that live in the water. For example:
Soil erosion on building sites can be a major source of sediment pollution in our waterways. In fact, a single building block can lose four truckloads of soil in one storm. Washed from the sites into stormwater drains this sediment is eventually deposited in creeks, rivers and lakes in the area Many rivers and waterholes have suffered blooms of large green algae (called simply `weed') in previous years. The weed accumulates in the shallows and along the shoreline, where it rots with an unpleasant odour. Spring growths of the toxic blue-green algae turn the water green. Fish catches decline during the bloom, and oxygen levels in the water drop, often causing mass death of bottom-living animals.   |
Show how you and your family can help to reduce water pollution |
Suds and run-off from car washing, rubbish dropped on the streets, plastic bags etc all contribute to water pollution, so reducing these as much as you can is one way of helping to reduce water pollution.
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Habitat Destruction | |
On a bushwalk, find examples of five things that have damaged the environment, eg) litter and pollution, salinity, erosion and man-made damage. |
ON A BUSHWALK!! – there you go, what more reason do you need to plan a hike? With the pollution etc around these days, on just about any bushwalk you will find the required damage.
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