- Organisation
- INEX-SDA
- Mailing List
- Yes
- Name of the method
- The History of Trash
- Short description
- In order to be more responsible with your consumption is important to know about the discarding of products. In this activity, your group will reflect on the long life of trash and how it is possible to lessen the impact of your consumption.
- Duration of preparation
- 5-15 minutes
- Duration of implementation
- 30-60 minutes
- Target audiences
- 16-18 years
- Minimum number of participants
- 12
- Maximum number of participants
- 30
- Categories
- Electronic waste
- Format
- Simulation Game
- Objectives
- To reflect on the negative effects of the waste store in the next 10 years.
- To reflect on the importance to find alternative solutions to the over-waste consumption problem.
- Global Reference - Choose SDG's
- 4 Quality education, 11 Sustainable cities and communities
- Implementation
Participants are divided into groups (3 – 5 max. each).
- Step 1. Each group has to search for some e-waste and electronic waste material
(trainers should have already prepared the materials and the different parts) and
choose a maximum of 3. - Step 2. With the pieces they found they have to create a short story about their life, from
their production to their destruction.
NOTE: the story will be afterwards presented in the plenary and each group can find the most suitable and creative way to present the story. During this phase, they should also figure out the possible impact of this waste in the 10 next following years and they should search for alternative solutions toreduce the impact of waste consumption and disposal. - Step 3. Presentation of the stories in the plenary.
- Step 1. Each group has to search for some e-waste and electronic waste material
- Debriefing
Key questions for the debriefing:
- Is the scenario described realistically?
- Is it possible to measure, in a trustworthy manner, the real impact? If yes, how?
- Do you agree with the solutions proposed?
- Do you have ideas to solve or at least manage the problem?
- Lessons learned from the activity.
- Evaluation
You can ask if now they have a better conscience of the impact their consumption has on the planet, and if this activity changed how they will deal with their trash from now on.
- Adaption for other target audiences
To adapt to younger children is best to print out images of the objects (like a cellphone, tv, headphone, etc) since they might don’t have electric products with them.
- Additional document
- Additional remarks
