How do you motivate children to recycle?

Answer 1

Easy just show them what it would be like without recycling show them pictures of the forest before and after loggers come in and cut them down and other stuff like that.

Answer 2

It is never good to be forceful or demand thigns of others, but it would be helpful if you explained to them what recycling is. You could research to find exact facts on how it can help the environment, save money, and is easy, and then encourage them to begin recycling, too.

Answer 3

84 new members this month, to give us a grand total of 360 in the Helderberg. Stellenbosch has so far 25 members, not bad for the first week at all! Eikestad Nuus ran an editorial on Mr Recycle; it's great to see how much difference a real community paper can make! We have sorted a little over 53 000 kilograms this month, of which 47 000 kilograms was mixed recyclable materials and have had to send about 6 000 kilograms of unsuitable or spoilt materials to landfill. Are you placing the correct materials in your recycle bags? Use the website to check! 400 000 TONS (400 000 000 kilograms) of materials are being sent to landfill every month from out of the Helderberg alone, so our 47 000 kilograms actually equates to a raindrop falling in the ocean. (0.001175%)Unless we do something to motivate everyone to recycle, both businesses and Homeowners, we are going to be in serious trouble very soon - see copied email below. How far can you swim? My friends: please start making composting areas at your homes. We are going to run out of affordable foods in the shops in the very near future. BEE on the farms 4 years ago then cost us 40% of our country's food production. What do you think has been happening in the intervening years? That was the last time I received trustworthy information relevant to the farming community as my "source" fled to America. You need to enrich the soil where you will eventually be planting your vegetables. This is not "Doomsday Advice", but a reality check! We are working on the red wrigglers we intend to provide you with, but the process is extremely slow, so don't wait for us! Footprints in Wynberg has kits with worms available at R180 per set, so we would recommend you contact them. As we only chat via email, I don't have their number for you, sorry. Certain of our local schools; Monkey Town and the Somerset West Library have also realised how important the role in society Mr Recycle plays actually is and are now donating all the recyclable materials they generate to Mr Recycle, as well as supporting us in other small but important ways. Somerset College, both High and Primary Schools; The International School of the Helderberg; Waldorf School, The Sustainability Institute in Lyndoch and also Hendik Louw in the Strand all deserve a big thank you! We also provide a fund raising system to Beaumont School, who we buy certain recyclable materials from. All these schools not only provide the pupils/parents with a drop off facility, but actually educate the children about what is and isn't recyclable. It is important that everyone learns what is recyclable as eventually intelligent people will only buy materials that have a high ratio of recyclable components! Well done to all! Global Warming and the landfill situation are very real factors that need to be considered when buying products. Buying power of the Greenies is the only thing that will change the current global system. As explained in the attachment, we intend to create a "Green Buying Class" through the making of socially and environmentally conscious millionaires. Special projects we have been involved with during the past month: Absa Cape Epic, who donates 30 bicycles each year to willing recipients, generated 2 000 kilograms of mixed recyclables (800 kilograms of actual waste) and gave us a cash donation of R3 500, with which I immediately bought a new computer! Thank you, Absa! Even though I could not get an expansion loan from you when I thought I needed it, you still helped me to Save the World in a small way. As some of you might recall, in February I mentioned I intended to create a belt of recyclable collections stretching from Gordon's Bay right through to the other side of Stellenbosch. We are now doing so, not even 6 months later. By applying the principles supplied in the movie, The Secret, nothing is impossible. What the mind can imagine, the "universe" can supply. Are your thoughts positive, thereby allowing you to receive all the blessings available for you? Due to Global warming, within 50 years (the time when we should be enjoying our grandchildren playing in our gardens here in the Helderberg) the majority of the Helderberg will have been flooded. Check Google flood maps if you doubt me! Does this make it more real for you? Now do you see why it is so important that everyone, young and old, recycles? The "Mr Recycle type service" is not a "should do" service, it is a must! Great news for those who can't afford to pay R5 a week to have their materials collected for recycling purposes: The "Free" service is coming back as from the 1st of either June or July - I am not 100% sure. As we support the principles wholeheartedly, we will deliver the materials we collect in the Helderberg to the City appointed contractor, at least until such time as we discover the materials are being land filled like the last lot did when they couldn't cope. The contractor (Martinus Waste) has subcontracted the recyclable sorting to Waste Plan, who is the only company to have successfully run the "pilot system" on the other side of Cape Town, so no problems are envisaged. The jobs we stand to lose at the sorting site, we intend to protect through expansion into Stellenbosch and Grabouw over the next 6 months. In actual fact, I expect that they will increase as more and more people will see the merit in having their recycle bags collected the day before the Council Waste day, even though the materials will not (at this stage) be creating local jobs as it will be trucked through to the sorting yard in Maitland. Because this is how I chose to Save the World for my yet unborn children - I don't even know who the mother will be yet - I remember the pages and pages of letters of complaints to the District Mail about the collection service and this gives me the inner security to know that my concept in the Helderberg will not fail, but simply grow from strength to strength! When the complaints start, please feel free to join me in a quiet chuckle… By mr strange in MLP Mon Jan 30, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM EST Tags: Science (all tags) The Greenland ice sheet will almost certainly melt, according to a new book published by the UK government today. The BBC is running this as today's main headline. The report concludes there is no realistic chance of stabilising atmospheric CO2 levels below the point needed to melt the Greenland ice. The European Union's current target is to restrain global warming to no more than 2 Celsius. Scientists have now concluded that this won't be enough to avoid a catastrophe. Greenland ice stores enough water to raise sea levels by seven metres, enough to flood many major cities and displace hundreds of millions of people. The book "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change", was compiled by a panel of scientists early last year, and has since been peer reviewed. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has written a foreword, in which he says "It is clear from the work presented that the risks of climate change may well be greater than we thought." Indeed, a recent study has shown that measurable sea level rises have already begun. Dr. Myles Allen, lecturer in atmospheric physics at Oxford University gave an interview this morning in which he explains the risks [real media]. Is there a silver lining? The full 7m sea level rise may take up to 1000 years. Look what the slight sea level increase has already done along the Beach road in Strand. I wonder if those people who are campaigning for the Strand Jetty have even considered the horrendous effects of Global Warming. I know not many people have! Even I didn't realise how little time we do actually have left - speaking in a swimming/Global way, but looking at the state of our country itself, I know of no faster way to create jobs for un/skilled people than through the Mr Recycle Concept, if it were to be suitably marketed and supported. I mention this as by creating the jobs, we will create the awareness as well, which will then induce more people to recycle, thereby creating more jobs... The water might well take my life time to get here, but in that time, how many people could we not have supplied work to and awareness through? Although the water levels will rise over the next few years, (see the beachfront wall at Strand Main Road that is already being washed away and some of our councillors saying it's as a result of the tall buildings changing the wind direction!) all we can do is to watch and monitor our own environmental footprints. Every 8 000 environmentally and socially responsible families that join us creates 21 jobs and removes 64 000 kilograms a month from the landfill stream! # Watch the Al Gore video, if you haven't already done so. Once you have, you should also be as motivated as I am

Answer 4

you can reward the people and just sort of let them know its the right thing to do -Jein P.

Answer 5

Be a good role model and show your friends how to recycle and why its important.

Answer 6

Do a commercial about it on a channel that people regularly watch

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Answer 7

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