The document discusses several topics related to recycling including examples of items that can be recycled such as plastic, glass, paper, and metals. It outlines advantages of recycling like helping create a cleaner environment, reducing pollution, and making previously unusable items useful. A potential disadvantage is if people incorrectly assume items can be recycled when they cannot. The document also discusses other forms of recycling beyond bins, like charity shops, thrift stores, and organizations that accept donations. Creating a video about recycling could inspire people to properly handle their garbage and raise environmental awareness.

1. RECYCLING
Idea Explanation and examples Advantages Disadvantages
Recycling
(Talia)
Explanations of ideas: To make a social action
project about recycling will be very good in
bringing about change in the way people are
handling their rubbish and unwanted
possessions.
Recycling can be applied to practically anything,
varying from electronics to rubber to plastic, and
more.
Here is a few examples of basic recycling one
can do:
Plastic:​ water bottles, plastic bags, plastic
wrappers and rubber bags
Glass:​ wine, beer and milk bottles, (broken)
glasses, etc.
Paper:​ magazines, newspapers, old books,
envelopes, cards, cardboard boxes, etc.
Metals:​ empty cans (sweet corn, canned soup,
fruit cans, tomato paste cans, etc.
Compost is also made by throwing away food
such as orange and carrot peelings, banana
skin and even horse feces is good for it!
● Recycling is very
important - maybe even
essential, in helping to
create a cleaner living
environment as well as a
better future for many
generations to come.
● It reduces various types
of pollution such as
visual, air and water
pollution
● Converting waste and
other used materials into
reusable products makes
old/broken/unuseful
things useful
● A project on this may
inspire people to handle
their garbage differently,
and become more aware
of how much they affect
the environment, and
The only real, possible
disadvantage of recycling is if
people feel obligated to go
out of their way to acquire
recycling bins and the such
or if people misunderstand
and assume certain things
are meant to be recycled
when when they can’t or
shouldn't be. An example of
this may be people thinking
that a juice carton is always
recyclable, when in fact, they
are not, and so one places it
in a paper recycling bin
instead of a normal dustbin.

2. Here is a link to a website explaining some of
these ideas, amongst others, regarding this
cause:
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/recycle.html
This is only one example of such channels that
we would use in directing the public and expose
for their understanding on the subject to grow.
However, recycling doesn’t only mean re-using
waste materials by throwing them away. Charity
shops, thrift shops and other second hand
stores are also types of recycling and are just as
effective as throwing away an empty bottle into
a recycling bin. They give the chance for
someone’s old clothes and possessions to be
re-used without having to go through the whole
process of finding the right bin to throw them in,
etc. as well as provide one with the opportunity
to give to charity. As the saying goes, ‘another
man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’
A G’mach is also a type of recycling place. It is
essentially a Jewish, ‘chesed’ (kindness)
foundation, that anyone can use, set-up so that
how they can help make
the world better, in ways
they didn’t even know
they could.
● Animals will also live in a
better, friendly and
healthier environment.
● This will likely open up
the minds of many
people and make them
inspired in areas even
outside of recycling,
regarding social and
environmental aspects.
● Disadvantaged people
will hopefully benefit as
others will donate their
unwanted possessions,
their time and money, to
them, after seeing the
video.
● Inexpensive and very
profitable.
● Ethical and completely
legal.

3. people can donate clothes, furniture, and other
possessions so that someone else who is in
need of those things may borrow them for a
short time, before returning them to the G’mach
for someone else to benefit from it. They can
acquire all sorts of things there for various
purposes: say, loaning a wedding dress for a
bride or folding chairs for an event someone
may be setting up. Even interest-free loans.
GIFT is also a Jewish organisation, a charity
which includes donating to the poor as well as
people giving their time to help make and deliver
care packages or help out others who need their
help in their free time. This is also a type of
recycling as people give their extra time, money
and possessions that they do not need or can
spare for the benefit of someone who really
needs it. This shows a new side of recycling that
some people may not have thought of
beforehand, opening up their eyes to the various
options of recycling they have while at the same
time bringing about a social unity made possible
through this project, as desired by the council.
LINK: ​http://www.jgift.org/

4. Jumble sales and fundraising events are also
good in this aspect, as well as bringing together
communities, which is exactly the reason for the
Council issuing the brief.
These are all aspects regarding recycling that
we would explore in depth, giving interviews
with people who are part of these various areas
and asking them questions regarding recycling
in their lives, and the people they know, as well
as researching into general facts and issues
society faces because of lack of recycling and
environmental awareness.
Variety in this topic will be good as audiences
today have short attention spans and can easily
get bored, so a video exploring many different
things that fall under the same topic will be very
beneficial, plus, people want to be surprised and
many of the above mentioned are things people
may not necessarily categorize with recycling or
understand its importance.

5. Bullying
(Suela)
Bullying affects a lot of young people, especially
in school, as there are different types of people
that have different background, colour skins or
religion that may be made fun out of by other
students that see them differently from
themselves.
There are many types of bullying that may occur
such as, physical, verbal, social and cyber
bullying.
A website named Bullying UK, has developed a
page where people can find out more about this
topic or find help from a person if they may have
no one to talk about the bullying to. They have a
phone number or email address for people to
state their problem and then try to be resolved
by one of the members from the website. Also,
ChildLine is another useful resource to receive
help or advice if a person is going through any
problems which may be at school or at home.
When bullying happens, there are people who
actually witness it happening but do nothing
about it, they are called bystanders. They
should rather help the person who is bullying by
reporting the issue. Bullying may also occur at
home and therefore the neighbours should file a
complaint if they notice anything that is unusual
and not just be a bystander. The website has
suggested that the ​police or council can apply
for an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) to
There are not that many
advantages about bullying as
this is a very serious issue but
there are a few advantages.
One advantage of bullying is
that by creating a video about
bullying, it will help to raise
awareness in the community.
Students, teachers and parents
will receive knowledge about the
issue and therefore will be more
alert if someone is acting
differently than they usually act.
Another advantage is that there
are many websites and contact
numbers for people to contact if
they are being bullied. By
having these options, it will
convince and persuade the
victim or bystander to report the
issue as then it can be dealt
with rather than not telling
someone but the problem
leading to the situation getting
worse.
One disadvantage of bullying
is that many people have
kept this issue from their
friends or family and have not
told anyone about it because
they may feel scared or
worried if they tell someone
because of what might
happen next to them.
Therefore, the student may
not to report the problem and
the bullying would continue to
happen.
Another disadvantage is
when a person is bullied, it
could lead to them harming
themselves as they would not
know how to deal with the
problem and feel that they
don't want to live their life
anymore. Which would lead
to the person committing
suicide because they could
no longer take the bullying. In
a reports, it has said that
suicide is the third leading
cause of death among young
people, resulting in about
4,400 deaths per year.

6. make sure that the parents could be warned that
if they keep misbehaving the family could be
made to move out of their rented home or have
the child moved to another home for safety
reasons.
Here's an example of a website that anyone can
use to report or get advice about this issue.
http://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/?_ga=2.214
376148.271094382.1507030110-2057253191.1
507030110
The purpose of making the video is to show the
number of students that are bullied maybe at
school or home and raise the awareness of this
topic as it is very serious and apart of
everyone's lives. The other purpose of creating
the video is to warn students at school because
they may have bullied someone without
acknowledging it and make parents and
teachers to be more aware of their child if the
are acting any differently.
During the process of the video creation, as
group we will interview some students from a
local school in the community and ask them if
they have experienced any type of bullying. For
instance, we have decided to interview
teachers, student and parents which will give
the audience different opinions and views of
Moving on, the video can help
people who are being bullied as
the video would contain
recordings of people who were
bullied and how they have
changed their lives from it. For
example, we will have asked
people who may have been
already bullied and use their
advice in the video to help
convince and ease the victims
with their points because the
victims can have another
person’s point of view and how
they dealt with bullying which
may help to change their mind
and talk about the bullying.
Another advantage is that we
will be presenting the video to
the local community and
therefore many people will be
able to view the video and this
issue will be observed and
brought to attention. Due to
using a local high school in
borough of Redbridge, it will
make the audience aware of the
school as the audience, parents,
teachers and students may
The disadvantage of this
issue is that when my group
and I start to film, we will
need to make sure that we
put into consideration the
ethical reasons because
some people may find this
issue emotional and lead to
people becoming unsettle
and therefore we need to
make sure that the recording
are suitable for the audience.
Also, as a group we would
need to put into consideration
that some people may lie or
exaggerate the story they tell
during the interview therefore
we would need to make sure
we collect valid and reliable
information to make the
documentary contain realistic
and accurate data.
The final disadvantage would
be that we would need to
make sure that we get the
people who will take part in
the video, showing their
identity, and the people who

7. what people who have a connection to the
school have to say about this issue. Then the
audience may use this information to be more
educated or use to help them get through
bullying.
As a group, we have decided to include images
of celebrities to show the evidence that even
famous people were once bullied. The audience
may even recognise a celebrity that they idolise
which they can feel more connected to the
person and use the celebrity to have someone
to look up to as they too did survive bullying and
could follow their suggestions with how they
dealt with bullying.
Plus, we would use re-enactment scenes that
may have happened to a victim of bullying which
will show the audience insight if what may
happen in school when a person is bullied. Also,
this will create an effect on the audience to feel
sympathy and emotional or even connected to
the scenes as they can see what people go
through and what happens to them when
bullied.
recognise the school as their
children attend ad even the
friend’s children attend as well.
This will lead to the audience to
know more about the school
and get advice and views from
the teachers on what they have
said about bullying in case the
audience may attend the school
can be more acknowledge
about what the school can do
for people who are bullied.
Although, by using the local
school as a location in the
video, we would need to make
sure that if we record students
or teachers around the building,
we have their permission to use
their identity but if they don't
want us to use their identity then
we would need to make sure
that we either don't record them
at all or blur out their faces to
hide their identity.
will let us use their property
or land, sign the document of
talent and location release
form that will ensure that they
have given us permission to
use their identity or
property/land. But if they
don't want to give us
permission then we would
need to find another identity
or property/land to use as if
we don't get the permission,
we will be breaking the
ethical and legal laws.

8. Underage
drinking
(Filipa)
Underage drinking has become a much more
common occurrence as students are getting
peer pressured and bullied into being ‘cool’
especially in school, you are prone to finding
others trying to be ‘cool’ by drinking and
smoking.
Underage drinking is classified as anti-social
behaviour as it’s behaviour by a person which
causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm
or distress to one or more persons not of the
same household as the person.
Anti-social behaviour is serious as it can leave
room for people in disadvantaged areas to have
an increase of crime, so as a citizen I am
obliged to suggest to report anti-social
behaviour by calling the Redbridge Enforcement
Team on ​020 8478 4679​.
Redbridge has an Enforcement team for this
sort of behaviour and i will leave a link to the
website below so you can check what you can
do if you are ever in an uncomfortable situation.
https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/crime-and-public-s
afety/anti-social-behaviour/
The video we are working on will show the youth
that it is not ok or ‘cool’ to be getting drunk at
such a young age especially not for the sake of
A disadvantage of underage
drinking is that even as a
bystander they may get
pressured into fearful silence
and so often don’t tell or call
for help. Even those involved
may not tell as they fear the
consequences of their
actions.
Drinking is dangerous
especially when it’s with
minors who aren’t old enough
to be drinking as it as they
have no control in their state
of inebriation and in turn can
get seriously hurt, on broken
glass or by over drinking the
substance in question, and
they could even seriously
harm themselves in this state
as they have no proper
control and may be drinking
in unsafe environments and
this could be disastrous in the
unclear state they are in.
We need to be careful of how
we go about our topic as it is
a touchy topic and we don’t

9. appeasing some peers who think that what they
are doing is normal as it is illegal to drink below
the legal age, as it can cause death in the worst
case scenario or get you very sick.
This issue is important and we hope to
acknowledge that drinking can cause
overdosing and remind them that parent’s worry,
about their children’s safety and health, drinking
can lead to addiction and so we hope this video
will raise awareness to the issue.
During the process of the video creation, as a
group we will interview some students from a
local school in the community and ask them if
they have experienced any type of peer
pressure to do with drinking or antisocial
behaviour.
want to seem forceful or
accusatory when bringing it
up or when sharing stories.
We found that alcohol was
one of the leading causes of
death even more so than
drugs like heroin, cocaine or
ecstasy. Statistics show that
489​ people died from alcohol
poisoning in the UK in
2013-14. Males accounted
for approximately ​two-thirds
of the total number of
alcohol-related deaths in
2014 in the UK.