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This game is similar to our idea. This game is 2+ meaning that our game would work for 2+ too as its a similar concept. However, I think because of the game is drawings and spelling it could work for an older age range as well.

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Educational?

Monopoly

Card games - Uno

Recycling

Climate change

Fast fashion

interactive games

Kids learning to recycle

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First concept sketch

Developing an initial idea - recycling

Could be an educational game into ow to recycle but have the game be interactive so that the kids learn through physically putting the items in the correct place.

Similar games to research - Tummy Ache and operation

Having three bins - glass, plastic, paper

Then having drawings of recyclable items on cards and the kids have to place them into the correct bin.

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www.penguin.com.au. (n.d.). The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. [online] Available at: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-9780140569322.

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Bins - possibly making them out of card and string. The card to make the bins then string so the bin can open.

Cards—We want to make the cards to put in the bins the same size as normal playing cards. Then, we want to make a print design using Lino so that all the cards match.

Designs on cards: We want to explore different artists' styles and use watercolour for the designs.

For the answers, we want to turn the designs into an educational poster that kids can look at after playing the game.

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Google.com. (2024). Redirect Notice. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhigh.org%2Fexhibition%2Fwinnie-the-pooh-exploring-a-classic%2F&psig=AOvVaw338mcFkt2l_baBlORf9HNL&ust=1731261395936000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCMDp-bbpz4kDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE [Accessed 9 Nov. 2024].

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Trialing the layout in procreate.

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Leave section at the bottom for tips to help kids to tell the difference between the different materials

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Typed up lettering - more eligible

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After doing the trial of the game i realised that we didnt plan for a rule card. I thought looking at the rules of games similar to ours would be a good place to look. I wanted to make the rules card simple not like this rule card but i wanted to take inspiration from the language they used.

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When i printed these cards they came out smaller than. i intended but i feel that it worked well adn has become a happy acciddent. i think it iwll work better for chiuldren as they have smaller hands and it means we can make teh bins small aswell - easy to store.

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I made the pattern in the illustration to make sure all the sides of the card were as even and clean as they could be.

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After the seminar on semiotics, I released the importance of signs and how they can help people instantly understand what they are looking at.

I think a children's game is also an important time to show these signs so that the kids understand where they will have to recycle in the real world.

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From unit 5 we learnt how to make and use rubber stamps so I decided to take this forward with this project. I thought that it would work well because i had to repeat the pattern over 21 cards. I also thought that it would add texture to the cards as the illustrations were done online.

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Children Graphic novel illustration Eric Carle. Who uses collage to create his illustrations.

I feel like this style could be interesting to try out as it's made using collage. I think the colours could intrigue the kids and make them interested in the game.

The only problem would be the sizing of the items and also we don't have long for the project so time management would also come using this idea.

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Looking at famous kids illustrator, Quentin Blake and his sketches of food

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In conversation with each other, brainstorming initial ideas

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Looking at famous kids illustrator, Quentin Blake and his sketches of food

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Illustrations by E. H. Shepard.

I think that these illustrations would work for our project. Not only is it a lovely style to draw in but also has been tried and tested with kids as these illustrations are used in children's books.

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Planning of the bins

I decided against the pull door concept as they could be fragile when young children are playing with them and the doors may not stay up on their own once the card had been cut

The measurements for the template were based around the size of the cards, I thought cutting the shape out from one piece of card would be sturdier than gluing several pieces of card together

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Template sketched out on grey board

We chose grey board over card board as it is good for model making. Strong but not too thick

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Here was a mockup cut out, however the tabs were made too thin and didn’t fold very neatly

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The boxes were scored with a blade so they would fold well and hot glue gunned together

Slits were cut in the top of the box for the cards to go through before the sides were sealed

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The first bin was not a success, I had forgotten to consider the cards being trapped in the box and didn’t leave a hollow bottom

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I cut out the bottom of the box on this first attempt. The next ones I made neater and opened the slits more so the cards would go through smoother

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Make a rule card so people know how to play the game

Make the slot on teh paper box bigger

A sign with the name of the game

Game name? - The recycling game

Box for the game?

Might be better typed - look into what fonts kids understand.

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Littlenuttreetoys.uk. (2024). Orchard Toys Post Box Game. [online] Available at: https://www.littlenuttreetoys.uk/product/orchard-toys-post-box-game/ [Accessed 21 Nov. 2024].

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Age range - 3+

Inclusivity - as there are pictures and words kids of most ages can play.

Length of game play / timings - the game is almost like flashcards so can only be played a few times that is why we have a poster with the game that can be put up after playing the game.

Materials and manufacture - card, paper and digital drawings on procreate.

Play environment/setting -

Team roles and responsibilities - we are splitting the roles equally as we will both decide on a drawing style.

Methods of co-research, co-making, co-design -

We want to try and separate the work equally but doing half the drawings each which will attempt to do in teh same style. We have made a timetable which lists out what we will doing in the week.

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Wish-recyling - a term used in this article to describe the process of people throwing things in teh recycling bin without knowing if it's recyclable but wishing it was.

This article states that the UK creates the second most plastic waste per capita after the US. This equals to 1.1kg per person per day.

This waste that we through away doesn't just get through away into teh obise. our waste then get shipped to lower-income countries to deal with.

This article reflects why our game is so important to children because it teaches them about the importance of safe recycling. Learning about our impact on the world from an early age sounds daunting, but because of our country and planet, it has become crucial;l for kids to be educated about it. change has to start somewhere.

I think that the simplicity of the game doesn't reflect the ideas which are spoken about in the article however our game is targeted at 2+ children who wouldn't be able to understand the ideas explored in this article.

(Itsfreezinginla.com, 2022)

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Recycling is a Colonial Delusion | IFLA!

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Dr Arianne Shahvisi digs into the UK’s shaky recycling infrastructure and its dependence on overseas dumping.

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This article disccuses recycling and talks about what happens to our waste.

Downcycling - (cascaded recycling or open-loop recycling) a term used to describe what happens to our 'recycled products'.

"downcycling occurs when a material is remade into an item of lower quality. These items typically can’t be recycled again, which cuts an item’s overall life cycle short." (Petsko, 2021)

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Picture this: After tossing a single-use plastic bottle into your curbside recycling bin, it gets picked up and trucked to a material recovery facility, or MRF (pronounced "murf"). Once there, it's separated from the paper, glass, and metal and sorted into groups of similar plastics.

Your bottle - and countless others - are then packed into a rectangular bale, sold as a commodity, and sent to another facility to be sorted by color, shredded, sanitized, melted down, and molded into smaller, smoother bits of plastic called "nurdles."

Finally, the rice-sized remains of your bottle are purchased again, melted again, and fashioned into another bottle, ready to be filled with a fruity or fizzy drink.

This example is the best-case scenario for plastic bottles, but unfortunately it is not the norm. Plastic recycling is cumbersome and expensive, and in many cases, new "virgin plastics" are cheaper than recycled plastics.

Less than 30% of plastic bottles are recycled in the U.S., but technically speaking, most are "downcycled." Also known as cascaded recycling or open-loop recycling, downcycling occurs when a material is remade into an item of lower quality. These items typically can't be recycled again, which cuts an item's overall life cycle short.

While recycling closes the loop and keeps an item in circulation - just like the chasing arrows on the recycling symbol would suggest - downcycling turns that loop into a one-way arrow. From there, a material can only go downhill: After outliving its usefulness as a carpet or a bench, the next stop is the landfill or incinerator.

Even with recycling, there are limits to how long an item can circulate. The idea that our recyclable waste will be "cycled indefinitely" is a widespread myth, according to Dr. Trevor Zink and Dr. Roland Geyer.

"The belief that recycling automatically diverts material from landfill ignores the fact that, even in the most ideal recycling cases, material degrades in quality, diminishes in quantity (yield loss), or both during each use and recovery (i.e., collection and reprocessing) cycle," Zink and Geyer wrote in a 2018 paper.

This is especially true for single-use plastics. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) - the lightweight resin commonly used to make beverage bottles - diminishes in quality when recycled. According to Zink and Geyer, these bottles are often downcycled into fiber or wood replacements instead of being recycled into new bottles.

And if a manufacturer really wants to return a used bottle to its original purpose, they might need to add virgin plastics to the mix to achieve the same quality. That's right: You have to add new plastics to recycle old ones.

PET is one of the most valuable types of plastic, so you can imagine how difficult it is to effectively recycle other plastic resins. Industry-funded website PlasticFilmRecycling.org notes that plastic film - a material notoriously difficult to recycle - can be downcycled into composite lumber and refashioned into decks, benches, and playground sets. In other cases, plastic air pillows or grocery bags may find new life as containers, crates, and pipes.

Thanks to earlier research led by Geyer, we know that only 9% of all the plastic waste ever produced has been recycled. Downcycling rates are harder to calculate, but a report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation did just that, using plastic packaging data from 2013. The foundation found that only 14% of global plastic packaging waste was collected for recycling that year. Of that amount, 8% was downcycled and 4% was lost during the process. Only 2% was effectively recycled into a product of equal or higher value.

"Chemical recycling" is often touted as a solution by the plastics industry, but it exacerbates the climate crisis and does not curb the production of new plastics. This method, sometimes called advanced recycling, most often involves turning plastic back into fossil fuels to be burned. These technologies are unproven to work at scale and hardly qualify as "recycling." According to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), plastic-to-fuel facilities release toxic chemicals into the air and overburden low-income communities and communities of color.

While downcycling is certainly better than landfilling or burning plastic (either in an incinerator or as fuel), it only delays an item's disposal and does nothing to reduce plastic pollution. We are unable to effectively handle our plastic waste now, so picture what our oceans and landscapes will look like in 2050 when plastic waste increases fourfold - assuming current trends continue.

But if recycling plastic isn't a foolproof way of preventing plastic waste from piling up in landfills or polluting our oceans, then what is? Zink and Geyer offered a straightforward suggestion in their paper:

"Recycling can never prevent end-of-life disposal; it can merely delay it. This leads us to an obvious but surprisingly underappreciated conclusion: The only way to reduce the amount of material we landfill or incinerate is to reduce the amount we produce in the first place."

Oceana agrees and campaigns to curb plastic pollution at its source. One way of doing this is by urging companies, like Amazon, to consider the environmental impact of their packaging and products. Instead of offloading the burden of recycling onto consumers, companies can offer alternatives to single-use plastics that take wasteful materials out of the equation.

Companies that sell their products in refillable and reusable containers are prime examples of market solutions to plastic pollution. Research by Oceana found that a 10% increase in the share of beverages sold in refillable bottles could result in a 22% decrease in marine plastic bottle pollution. This would keep 4.5 to 7.6 billion plastic bottles out of the ocean each year.

Governments also play a key role. Policies that limit or eliminate single-use plastics are effective at reducing the amount of pollution that makes its way into the ocean. You can help make this happen by telling your local policymakers that you support action to reduce unnecessary single-use plastics.

To learn more about how you can help protect the world's oceans from plastic pollution with Oceana, visit oceana.org/plastic.
This article is the fourth installment in Oceana's Recycling Myth of the Month series, which highlights common misconceptions surrounding plastics and our ability to recycle or properly dispose of them. The first installment explained what those numbers on the bottom of plastic products mean, and the explored whether plant-based bioplastics are actually better for the environment. The explained why plastic waste is not just a "developing country problem."

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Recycling Myth of the Month: That plastic bottle you thought you recycled may have been 'downcycled' instead - Oceana

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Picture this: After tossing a single-use plastic bottle into your curbside recycling bin, it gets picked up and trucked to a material recovery facility, or MRF (pronounced "murf"). Once there, it's separated from the paper, glass, and metal and sorted into groups of similar plastics.

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Petsko, E. (2021). Recycling Myth of the Month: That plastic bottle you thought you recycled may have been ‘downcycled’ instead. [online] Oceana. Available at: https://oceana.org/blog/recycling-myth-month-plastic-bottle-you-thought-you-recycled-may-have-been-downcycled-instead/.

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Itsfreezinginla.com. (2022). Recycling is a Colonial Delusion. [online] Available at: https://itsfreezinginla.com/articles/recycling-delusion [Accessed 25 Nov. 2024].

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(Wicaksono, 2023)

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Wicaksono, L.L. (2023). Which Countries Pollute the Most Ocean Plastic Waste? [online] Visual Capitalist. Available at: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic-waste-pollution-by-country/.

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4Ocean (n.d.). The 4ocean Bracelet - Every purchase pulls a pound of plastic from our. [online] 4ocean. Available at: https://www.4ocean.com.

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4Ocean is a non-profit company which has contributed massively to the clean up of the oceans around the world.

To make money for the charity and to pay its workers 4Ocean collects the rubbish which they then turn into bracelets which they sell on their website. and with every bracelet sell, they pledge to take 1 pound of rubbish out of the ocean.

As of 25/11/2024 they have removed 40,174,624 since 2017.

Although are we want our project to focus on what to do to prevent this happened through recycling and proper waste disposal. I still think it's important for us to research things that happen when things do go wrong to maybe add to our project to make sure the kids know what is happening to the world.

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