Engineering · lesson 22 of 24 · free

Sustainable engineering — Engineering for kids

Sustainable engineering meets people’s needs today without harming the future. Engineers reduce waste (use less material and energy), reuse things (refill bottles, give books away) and recycle what is left (melt cans, pulp paper, turn plastic into tiles and benches). They prefer renewable energy — sunlight, wind, flowing water, biogas — over coal, petrol, diesel and natural gas, which run out.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle — “use less first, use things again next, and recycle last”

  1. Reduce = use less · reuse = use again · recycle = break down and remake.
  2. Renewable: sun, wind, water, biogas, waves. Non-renewable: coal, petrol, diesel, natural gas.
  3. Count savings with × and ÷: bags per week × weeks, bottles ÷ bottles per bench.

Use it for: Eco-club projects, Earth Day activities and designing with recycled materials.

Worked example: ♻️ Reduce, reuse or recycle: refill a water bottle? → reuse

  1. Refilling uses the same bottle again.
  2. Using something again is reuse.

Check: Melting old cans into new cans would be recycle ✓

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