Less waste board game

Aim: to get an idea of which statements relating to sustainable living are of most concern to the young people and which create most differences of opinion.

Age group: 11-15.

Number of participants: 4-10.

Time required: 20 minutes.

Resources needed: a copy of the ‘Less waste’ board, a set of Waste Item Cards’, a dice and some counters.

What to do:

This game can be played with two or more players. The object of the game is to remove waste from the landfill site by practising the 5Rs (Reduce, Refill, Repair. Reuse, Recycle). The winner is the first person to reach the recycling sign.

The cards are placed, face down, on the LANDFILL site.

In turn. each player throws the dice and moves their counter the corresponding number of spaces. A player who lands on a space with a star, must pick up a card from the LANDFILL site. The card will describe something which has been thrown away. In no more than one minute, the player must think of a way of using this waste item by practising one of the 5Rs, and so prevent it from staying in the LANDFILL. For example, he/she might suggest that a bottle is "used as a candle holder” (i.e. it is reused). The rest of the players then decide whether the suggestion is a good one. The card is then placed on the appropriate box (e.g. ‘Reuse’) and is removed from the LANDFILL.

If the player is unable to think of a use for the object, or their suggestion is unrealistic, then he/she misses a turn and the card goes to the bottom of the LANDFILL pack. It remains there until someone else picks it up.

If a player turns over a card with a star, the other players should suggest an item of waste for which the player must think of a use.

LESS WASTE BOARD GAME

WASTE ITEM CARDS