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Waste and Packaging Study Guide

For this assessment, make sure you can:

✓ Sort common waste correctly

✓ Explain what happens to waste after recycling

✓ Explain environmental effects in 2 steps

✓ Explain why food waste is a problem and how to reduce it

✓ Know and apply the 4 functions of packaging

✓ Suggest ways to improve packaging

✓ Compare two products and justify your choice

Review Resources:

Återvinningstation

Papper

Plast

Vilket förpackningsmaterial är bäst?

Vilken sorts mat är miljövänlig?

Link to game to play

Link to game to host (you would need to make an account)

Part A: Categorize waste into its appropriate type of recycling and explain how it is recycled.

Describe what happens to each type of recycling after you put it in the bin.

Pappersförpackningar

Tidningar

Metallförpackningar

Plastförpackningar

Färgadeglas

Ofärgadeglas

Matavfall

Restavfall

Explain 2 reasons in 2 steps why it is important to recycle correctly.

If you put for example metal in a food waste material. Then when it is transported and turned into eco

Which recycling bin would you sort each of these items into?

Item

Recycling Bin

Part B: Explain why food waste is generated and its impact on society and the environment.

What are 5 different resources wasted by throwing away food waste?

What are 2 different methods of reducing food waste? Explain how each method reduces food waste in two steps.

Explain 2 reasons in 2 steps why food waste is a problem that should be fixed.

Which types of food are best for the environment? Choose 2 of those types and explain why they are better for the environment.