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Go on a Paper Hunt! At-a-Glance
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| Brief Summary:
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Find out how much paper you use in your home and how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle more paper!
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Ages 8-10
Ages 11-13
Ages 14-17 (High School)
Ages 18-21 (College)
Adults
Family/Community
Seniors
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| Facility:
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Community Center
Hillel
Religious/Day School
Synagogue
Other
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Advocacy
Community Service
Educational Program
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| Issues:
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Baal Tashchit/Waste/Recycling
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| Holiday:
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Tu B'Shevat (New Year of the Trees)
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Description
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40% of all the trash in American landfills is paper. This fun activity helps teach what each of us can do to reduce our paper waste.
PREPARATION
Open the Attachment for a printable checklist to use for your paper hunt.
PROCEDURE
1. Explain the concepts of reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycle is common practice so take the extra time to teach about "post-consumer" recycling. Reusing paper saves the energy used to transport paper to the recycling plant and reducing paper means finding ways to say what you need to without using paper at all. For instance, using email can eliminate many paper communications.
2. To start saving paper, have students share their forms (and also reuse them again at the end of the activity.) Have the participants go through the checklist and assess their waste. Stress that this is not a competition among people about who wastes the least but instead a tool for us all to learn.
3. Optional: Make simple postcards to send to the Junk Mail office to immediately reduce everyone's paper waste.
STRETCHING THE LEARNING
* Which form of paper would be the easiest to reduce waste? The hardest?
* What difference would it make if we did not send paper to the landfill? (impacts on forests, pollution, size of landfill)
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Materials Needed
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Optional: postcards and stamps
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Preparation Time
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20 minutes to print paper hunt sheet and prepare postcards and stamps
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Activity Time
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