Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

By Caitlin Irwin

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NONrenewable resources are NONrenewable because…

• The Earth renews them in our lifetime.

• The Earth will NOT renew them in our lifetime.

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Renewable resources are renewable because…

• The Earth renews them in our lifetime.

• The Earth will NOT renew them in our lifetime.

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Coal and oil are?

• Non-Renewable energy resources

• Renewable energy resources

• None of the above

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This is a renewable resource

• Coal

• Oil

• Wind

• Gas

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Plants are renewable resource because

• They can be replinished

• They cannot be replinished

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What is solar energy?

• energy from the moon

• energy from the solar winds

• energy from the Sun

• energy from nuclear waste

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6. This form of electrical energy generating is called...

• Hydroelectric
• Geothermal
• Wind
• Non-Renewable

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource

• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

• Fossil fuels

• biodegradable

Consumption

Using up of a resource​

The purchase of a new pair of shoes, a hamburger at the fast food restaurant or services, like getting your house cleaned are examples of consumption.

Production

Making products

Using materials, manufacturers produce cars, electronics, clothing, furniture, home appliances, machinery, ships, airplanes, and many other goods.​

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A car using up gasoline.

• consumption

• production

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Buying a new clothes.

• Consumption

• Production

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A factory making cars to sell.

• Consumption

• Production

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A fast food restaurant making hamburgers and fries.

• Consumption

• Production

Be conscious of packaging – the less the better!​

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What can we do?

Choose reusable products. Use an eco-bag for shopping, a reusable water bottle or a cup to reduce your plastic waste.

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​Download and use food sharing applications like TooGoodToGo. You can download apps to donate your leftover food and decrease the amount of food waste you produce.

Reduce your carbon footprint​

Your carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide you release into the air when you use energy. Renewable energy causes no pollution or carbon dioxide.

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Carbon footprint

The total amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere as a result of an individual or an organisation

Multiple Choice

Why is the planet overheating?

• Greenhouse gases trap heat inside the atmosphere

• Heat is escaping from the earth's atmosphere

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To work out your own carbon footprint you need to know how much of WHICH GAS you are producing:

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

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Recycling is the most important way to reduce our carbon footprint

• True

• False

Open Ended

How can you reduce your carbon footprint?

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Which of the following is a good way to conserve water?

• When I brush my teeth I turn off the water after getting my toothbrush wet.

• I leave the water running the entire time that I brush my teeth. Who cares about all of that water that goes down the drain anyway?

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Which of the following is a good way to conserve water?

• I like to take a bath every single day. It's fun!

• In my family, we don't bath or shower at all. We don't want to waste water.

• In my family, we take quick showers instead of baths to save water.

  
  

  We only shower when we need to (sometimes that's not every day).

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Which of the following is a good way to conserve water?

• In my family we try to reuse items whenever possible, and when we can't reuse them we try to recycle them!

• I don't worry too much about recycling or reusing things. I figure that I can just buy more at the store, right?

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Recycling is the process of -------.

• riding a bicycle with trash

• converting a cycle into waste material

• converting waste into reusable material

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We can save two trees every year by recycling ____.

• plastic bottles

• newspapers

•  clothes

3 R's stands for

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

What is Reduce?

Reduce means using something LESS

What is Reuse?

Reuse means using something AGAIN and AGAIN

What is Recycle?

Recycle means using something OLD to make something NEW

Reuse VS Recycle

Reuse is using something AGAIN and AGAIN without the need to be sent to RECYCLING CENTER (just like what you did for science project, that's reuse!)

Recycle is using something OLD to make something NEW through series of processes which are done in RECYCLING CENTER.

Materials that can be recycled are paper, plastic bottle, glass and metal can.

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What do you think about using Recycle bag every time you shop in a supermarket, is it Reuse or Recycle?

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Used paper can be used to make new writing paper or paper bag

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Old glass jar can be used to stored food

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Old aluminium can be process to make new aluminium can

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Old clothes can be given to younger siblings or those who need it

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Used paper can be used to make new writing paper or paper bag

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Plastics are send to recycling center and melted to make new plastic furniture

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Plastic bottle use to make plant pot

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Using an item for a new purpose is.......

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce

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Using fewer resources.

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce

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Making a new product from a used product

• Reuse

• recycle

• reduce