What Can You Do With One Plastic Bag?
I can take a discarded plastic bag and give it a new purpose!
Plastic bags and bottles are the main contributor to the earths pollution. By turning plastic garbage into new goods, helps the environment and creates new economic opportunities. Plastics recycling keeps still-useful materials out of landfills and encourages businesses to develop new and innovative products made from them. Thousands of plastic bags are discarded daily on our planet. Where do they go? Instead of discarding, or throwing them away, think about how you could repurposed it for something else. Would it be useful? Experiment with ways that you could repurposed one plastic bag.
Watch this true story how the women in one village in Gambia turned a rubbish and a health hazard into a business that cleaned up their environment while creating a new income too: One Plastic Bag by Isatou Ceesay
After watching the video One Plastic Bag answer the following questions
Watch this true story how the women in one village in Gambia turned a rubbish and a health hazard into a business that cleaned up their environment while creating a new income too: One Plastic Bag by Isatou Ceesay
After watching the video One Plastic Bag answer the following questions
- How else could you repurposed a plastic bag? Give a few examples.
- As an inventor do you feel it is important to reuse discarded materials? Why?
- Why do you think re-purposing discarded materials is important, explain?
Supplies:
- Video of Lesson
- Plastic bags
- Scissors
- Duck Tape (Choice)
- Something heavy to hold down the strips