Waste Reduction
Outdoor activity 1
Outdoor Activity 1 – Waste Reduction
This activity can teach you how urban green care actions can improve mental health, simply by using your internet skills and critical thinking! Learning to identify urban green care activities in your area or city and promote their health benefits for citizens, can help you in the future to volunteer or work in green CSOs or networks that find, promote and incubate such initiatives.
Target group
All
Activity aimed for
Develop a concrete action plan to reduce the amount of waste generated in daily life.
Materials
Paper or notebook
Internet access (optional, for searching for information)
Venue
Any place
Instructions
Diagnose your own habits: Spend a few days consciously analyzing your daily consumption habits. Think about the products you buy, the packaging you throw away, and how you dispose of waste.
Look for opportunities for improvement: Identify areas where you can make changes to reduce the amount of waste you produce. These could include changes in shopping, reducing single-use packaging, choosing products with less environmental impact, or being more conscious about using and reusing items.
Create your waste reduction plan: Based on a diagnosis of your habits and identification of areas for improvement, develop a specific action plan. This can be a list of steps you intend to take, the reduction goals you want to achieve over a specific period of time, and ways to monitor your progress toward those goals.
Implement the plan: Start putting your planned actions into practice. Pay attention to how the changes affect the amount of waste generated and the environment.
Monitoring progress: Regularly track the progress of your waste reduction plan. Make adjustments and modifications as necessary.
Summarize: After a specified period of time, make a report or short report summarizing the effectiveness of your plan. Evaluate whether you have succeeded in reducing the amount of waste generated and what methods have been most effective.