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How much waste do you really produce? Throw ideas around, and then come up with a plan to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/sustainable-snowball-fight/

Resources

Scrap paper
Pens
Post-it notes
Sticky dots (optional)

Take it further
This activity could also consider the waste produced at an event such as a camp.

Instructions

Before you begin
- In the weeks leading up to this activity, monitor the waste your group produces. How you do this is up to you – you may want to write a list, take pictures, or even store the rubbish (if it’s clean, like paper or washed up plastic).
- Find out how you recycle (and what can be recycled) in your local area, using recyclenow.com.

Have a ‘snowball’ fight
1. Show everyone the waste your group has made over the past few weeks. Talk about the type of materials it’s made of, as well as the amount. What do people already know about recycling where you live? Depending on how much people know already, you may need to explain how you recycle (and what can be recycled).

2. Everyone should think about ways their group could reduce the amount of waste they produce, or reuse or recycle the waste they produce.

3. Give everyone a few pieces of scrap paper and a pen. Everyone should write their ideas on scrap paper, with one idea on each piece of paper. People can work in pairs, if they’d like to.

4. Everyone should scrunch up their pieces of paper, to turn them into snowballs.

5. It’s time to have a snowball fight!

6. After a few minutes, everyone should stop throwing snowballs and stand still. They should pick up the snowball closest to them.

7. One by one, everyone should read the idea they’ve picked up to the group. If any ideas are similar or the same, those people can stand together. You may need to repeat these steps, if there are more snowballs than people.

8. Everyone should work together to narrow down their ideas. They could do this by eliminating any that are impractical, for example, because they’re too difficult or expensive. If you have lots of different ideas, people could vote by sticking Post-it notes or sticky dots to their favourites.

9. Discuss the ideas that everyone has chosen, and decide how you will remember them. People could make a poster or a rhyme to remember your plan.

10. Recycle the scrap paper snowballs.

11. Set a date in a few weeks, to review how your plan is going

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