We will be adapting the RGS-IBG units with some newer stuff...
There's plenty of geography in the items that we buy: we'll probably look at the story of t-shirts along with other manufactured goods.
We will also be making use of the Follow the Things resources that I created in association with Exeter University and Professor Ian Cook.
When you've got a gadget, it's unlikely to last for ever... What do you do with it ?
Do you keep it / recycle it or take it to the tip ?
There is currently an EU regulation: WEEE, on the disposal of electronic waste, but that doesn't prevent a great deal of 'redundant' devices needing disposal.
A few years ago, I went to the Eden Project.
They had a huge sculpture made from old electrical equipment, called the 'WEEE man', to represent the amount of e-waste that was being disposed of.
Image: Alan Parkinson
Students could do an audit of items which they have, which are not currently being used. This might provide an idea of the scale of the problem on a school level...
A useful OBSERVER article on e-Waste... at the weekend provided further food for thought in this area.
And remember when you go to throw something away, that there is no such place as 'away'....
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