Up-cycling Workshop

Workshops

Reducing our waste is one of the best ways to have a positive impact on our world. It’s important to both our natural environment and us. Our landfill sites are filling up, by 2015, almost all landfills in the UK will be full and incineration should not be the answer.

Making use of redundant materials is a clear statement about closing the loop of resources. Its a challenge to create new and meaningful uses for objects we regard as rubbish. The Tetra-Pack to wallet design is a transformation creates new and exciting uses for material otherwise regarded as waste. In this case the cardboard, aluminium and plastic which are hard to recycle creates a new object which cleverly borrows from the properties of the discarded carton. i.e: durable and hard wearing

Anna Frendo Ukfeild Technology Eco Week Teacher of Geography – Sustainability Co-ordinator

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Subjects Covered

  • Energy
  • Purchasing and waste.
  • Inclusion and participation.
  • Global dimension.
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4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. Anna Frendo Uckfield Technology Collage Teacher of Geography - Sustainability Co-ordinator (Eco Week)  •  February 11, 2009 @12:02 am

    “Fantastic, the kids really enjoyed having a new face to teach them about the importance of sharing the earth’s resources. The students particularly enjoyed the practical aspect of the lesson – using tetra packs (which are so difficult to recycle), to make something they could take home.”

  2. Frances Parkin (Parent) and Verity Parkin Age 11  •  September 8, 2009 @11:59 am

    Children’s Workshops at the Green Architecture Day

    What a fun workshop! Not only enjoyable but thought -provoking too. We wont be looking at Tetra packs with the same eyes from now on – you could see the children’s minds working on all the recycling possibilities!

    Frances Parkin (Parent)

    I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop; it really made me think about all the different ways of recycling and how to save the environment. Philip showed me how to make a wallet out of a Tetra pack and in the end we had something to take home.

    Verity Parkin Age 11

  3. Lynda Langley - Nelson Primary School Twickenham London  •  July 15, 2010 @4:05 pm

    My students really enjoyed Phil’s imaginative tetra-pack lesson. He gave clear instructions and guided the class carefully through the activity revealing an important idea about living sustainably.The workshop was informative, enjoyable and run in a very professional way relating to the national curriculum. We have no hesitation in inviting him back.

  4. Eithne Murray - Grange Primary London - Science and Sustainability Co-ordinator  •  November 10, 2011 @7:34 pm

    Great activity! Thanks you so much for coming to our Sustainability Week. The children were really engaged and lent facts about the environment with out even knowing it.

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