The document discusses the 5Rs approach to waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, recover. It defines each of the 5Rs. Reduce means lessening unnecessary use of materials. Reuse means using items again, either by oneself or others. Recycle means processing waste materials to make new products. Repair means fixing broken items to reuse them. Recover means extracting energy or materials from wastes that can no longer be used. The 5Rs promote a clean environment by transforming wastes into useful materials through these various strategies.

1. Objective :Define recycle, reduce,
reuse , recover and repair in
waste materials.
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2. 1. What materials are shown in the picture?
2. Where can we found these materials?
3. Are these materials useful?
4. How can these materials be useful?

3. 1.Group the class into five
groups.
2. Distribute the picture to each
group and let them discuss
among the group how they
understand the 5Rs based on the
given picture

4. REDUCE
Group 1
REUSE
GROUP 2

5. RECYCLE
GROUP 3

6. Waste management refers to the practice of proper
waste disposal. Wastes refer to used or consumed
product or materials. A very good sample of this is
garbage. Waste management is implemented
anywhere in order to clean the environment and
make everyone healthy. Surely, you do not want to
leave a place full of garbage and wastes. Aside from
their foul smell, we do not want to get sick cause by
them. A kind of waste management we follow
nowadays is the 5R’s of waste management.

7. 5R’s in Waste Management
The 5R’s of waste management is the modern
way of organizing garbage and waste materials.
The focus of 5R’s waste materials is to:
1.Promote a clean and healthful environment.
2.Transform garbage into something useful (
Example : used cooking oil to fuel through
recycling ) , thus
3.Making the earth free from any garbage or
waste material “ zero waste “

8. What are the 5R’s means?
1. Reduce - simply means lessen the use of unnecessary
materials. It means buying only what is needed. It means
buying items in refillable containers and in bulk to save on
packaging. It means avoiding disposable or single use
products. It also means using cloth bag instead of plastic
bags and renting items that are used once or twice only.
To reduce is the most important part of waste
management because it lessens the unnecessary use of
materials , energy , and water before they are produced.

9. Refillable container

10. 2. Reuse - means to use again, if not by you, then by others.
Clothes, cooking wares , bags, shoes and other clothes are some
reusable materials. Donate reusable items in your house that
you do not need others can use them again. Buy household
items that are made of repaired and reused. Papers,
cardboards. Glass jars, plastic boxes and bags are reusable items.
Print or write on both sides of paper or use them as scratch
papers. reuse boxes as organizer of toys and other materials.
Use reusable container for storing food and other items instead
of foil, plastic wrap, and Styrofoam. Choose food items packed in
a nice containers like box , bottles , or jars instead of disposable
plastic wrappers. You can use the empty containers as flower
vase and storage of other things.

11. REUSE

12. 3. Recycle - means processing the waste
materials to make another product. Making
decorative objects out of newspaper or colored
pages of magazines or making baskets or bags
out of used tarpaulin are examples of recycling.
Papers, plastics , tin cans , cardboards, glasses,
aluminum, and other metal scraps are some of
the things that can be recycled.

13. RECYCLE

14. 4. Repair - is fixing or restoring
broken items to be used again. It
means mending torn clothes and
gluing some materials that need to be
put together. Electrical appliances
computers and other electronic
devices can be repaired. Worn out
shoes and bags of good quality can be
repaired and used again.

15. REPAIR

16. 5. Recover - means taking energy or
materials from wastes that cannot be used
anymore. Composting is an example of
recovery.

17. Recover

18. Study the pictures and identify which of the 5Rs each picture belongs.
1. 2. 3.
4.
5.

19. Classify each sentence as to recycle, reuse, repair, reduce and recover
RECYCLE REDUCE REUSE REPAIR RECOVER
1. Margaret found her old dolls and gave them to her baby sister.
2. Instead of buying a new bag for the coming school days, Denise washed and fixed her old
one.
3. Jason used paper bags in the grocery instead of plastic bags.
4. Mr. Cruz collected the chicken manure in his poultry farm and gave it to a shop that can
convert biodegradable materials into LPG.
5. Anna’s school always collect old newspaper to be used as scrap paper.
6. During Christmas, Kathy and her friends made a Christmas lantern made purely of mussel
shells and candy wrappers.
7. Carol bought good vegetables only enough for her one-day meal.
8. Mely opens a garage sale in her place to sell her old furniture.
9. Johnny always brings his water tumbler every time he buys juice from the canteen.
10. Instead of throwing away all the soft drinks cans, used them as pots for the plants.

20. 1.What does 5Rs stand for?
2.How can we reduce, reuse, recycle,
repair and recover our wastes?
3. Why do we need to manage our
waste?
4. Is 5Rs helpful/effective strategy in
waste management?

21. • Read each sentence below. Write the word recycle, reduce, reuse, repair,
or recover before the sentence that correctly defined each of the 5Rs.
______________1. Taking energy or materials from wastes
that cannot be used anymore.
______________2. Fixing or restoring broken items to be
used again.
______________3. Processing the waste materials to make
another product.
______________4. Means to use again.
______________5. Lessen the use of unnecessary
materials.
Recover
Repair
Recycle
Reuse
Reduce

22. •Assignment: List down waste materials that can be found in
your home.Fill out the table below.
WASTE MATERIALS 5R’S NEW PRODUCT
MADE