Submitted by:

Camille Lopez BAPsych-III

Submitted to:
Dr. Rachel Laureano
I. Icebreaker
WASTE REDUCTION ICEBREAKER

Time needed:

30 minutes

Materials:

• Stickers with name of a type of waste material on them;

category first, type second

Set-up:

• Participants get up from their tables and scatter around the

perimeter of the room

• Give each person a sticker; ask them not to show anyone else
• Let them pair up in two’s; do not show their sticker to the
other person

• Each person sticks their sticker on the other person’s back

• All the waste categories are shown on the marker board or

on poster sheets on the wall (draw big circles for each
category with title)

Process:

• Once everyone has their sticker, they have to walk around

the room and find out what type of waste they are; o
Participants first ask what waste category they belong to
(yard, plastics, etc); I.e. Participant A asks Participant B: Am
I metal waste?

• The Participant B being asked can only answer YES or NO,

and cannot provide any other information

• When Participant A is finished with his/her question,

Participant B gets to ask two question of Participant A

• And so everyone moves around the room, asking two

questions per person • When someone finds out their identity,
they confirm with the moderator and post their sticker on the
white board or poster sheet under the correct category

• Continue until a majority of people have identified their

waste (or for a set time period)

Type of waste, for the stickers:

Yard Trimmings (13.5%): 4 Grass clippings Oleander branches

Weeds Mesquite branches

Food (14.5%): 4 Apple core ½ eaten sandwich Stale chips

Melon rind

Paper & Paperboard (27.4%): 8 Copy paper Colored paper

Wrapping paper Tissues Shoe Box Cereal Box Newspaper
Pasta Box

Glass (4.6): 1 Wine Bottle

Metals (8.9%): 3 Coke Can Canned Tomato Can Broken shovel

Plastics (12.7%): 4 Lunchable Tray Felt‐tipped marker Yogurt
Carton Flip Flops

Rubber, leather, textiles (8.7%): 3 T‐shirt Tire Carpet

remnant

Wood (6.3%): 2 Broken shovel handle Book case

Other (3.4%): 1 Computer

II. Lecture
It can be said that sustainable development is a goal-oriented
process of transformations aimed at improving and achieving
the sustainable quality of human life. However, living
conditions are sustainable only when living conditions of the
other forms of life are preserved. Thus, in general, the
preservation of heterogeneity as to the conditions and forms
of life on the Earth may be considered to be the cardinal
objective of sustainable development. This is a process that is
very exacting in an economic as well as temporal manner. It
inevitably requires a substantial change in the relation of
humans not only nature, but to themselves. The basis of this
process creates transporting the environmental thoughts to
the single spheres of economic development, which is generally
called the ecologization, and humanization of management in
the landscape. This process must compose an integrated
whole, they have to cover both the super-structural sphere
and the realization sphere of societal development. Thus, it is
a process to answer the questions of where and how to place
human activities in the territory that they are in the least
contradiction with the natural conditions. It results in a
proposal for the most suitable localization of required human
activities within a given territory and successively in a
proposal of necessary measures ensuring the ecologically
correct operation of those activities in a given locality.

III. Workshop
Recycling Reminder Magnets

Create a recycling reminder refrigerator magnet listing all

the items to remind

families of items that are/aren’t recyclable. Top of magnet

can be decorated with

picture and/or slogan. The home pickup recyclable list would

include cans, glass, plastics (with necks and market #1 or #2),
newspaper, cardboard, chip board, wrapping paper, batteries
(in a see thru plastic bag).
IV. Synthesis and Reflection
All these approaches to sustainable development seem too
anthropocentric. But sustainable development does really not
concern the spheres outside human society (like plant and
animal forms). It is strictly meant as the sustainable
development of human society—i.e. man with his interests and
needs is the focus of attention.

However, analyzing thoroughly the proclaimed approach it is

necessary to realize that sustainable conditions for the life of
other organisms are explicitly a part of sustainable conditions
for the development of human life. All forms of life on Earth
with their conditions together make up a large system. The
impairment of one element may negatively influence all system.
Hence, we have to understand that our survival depends also
on the survival of other forms of life on the Earth. Human life
may not be carried out to the detriment of other life forms.
The conception of sustainable development implies the aspect
of integrated approach to preserving the conditions and forms
of life on the Earth. So the conceptions of the long-term
development of individual branches (which, of course, exist
too)—formulated only on the basis of economic parameters—
cannot be considered the conceptions of the proclaimed notion
of “sustainable development.”
V. Personal Action Plan
Because of this topic I learned some tips and knowledge about
sustainable living like proper segregation of waste. I applied
this to my life by creating a recycling reminder refrigerator
magnet listing all the items that are/aren’t recyclable to
remind me and my family at home.