War on Waste: Pre-viewing Questions

1. What do you know about recycling, reusing, and reducing in terms of waste?
(What are facts and figures you know from the internet, friends/family, teachers etc)
I know that not a lot of people actually recycle, but the numbers have been growing. I also know
that plastic bags recently got harder to recycle due to Redcycle unexpectedly closing their doors.

In terms of reusing, more people have been realising their impacts and tried to reuse their
plastic items instead of just throwing them out. And reducing waste has gotten better as well,
with companies taking up more eco-friendly packaging.

2. What are your personal opinions about the whole sustainability issue that we currently
face?
Personally, I don’t think that everyone is doing their part to try and fix our sustainability
issue. The community seem to be adapting to more eco-friendly rule changes, and some are
even endorsing them. But when it comes to big corporations and world leaders, I don’t think
they’re seeing the bigger picture. Take the Australian Government for example. They say
that we’re going to set a goal of Net Zero by 2050, which is ages away. By then, the climate
probably would have spiralled so violently out of control that it won’t matter what we do.
Experts and scientists have been warning about climate change since the late 90s, and yet
we’re only doing something about it now, which isn’t even going to come into fruition until
almost 30 years pass? I just think that’s unacceptable from the government of a country
that’s been hit by climate change extremely heavily as of recent.

3. Do you believe that an individual’s choices and behaviour have the power to change society
on the whole?
You may have heard “why should I do that when others don’t” etc
Explain your position.
I think an individual’s choices certainly can inflict and change society and their behaviour, as
we’ve seen with people like Greta Thunberg.

War on Waste: Summary

Summarise in 150 words the first episode of War on Waste.
Write this like a movie review:
- What is the overall goal/motivation of the documentary?
 - What strategies does the doco use to get its point across? (Shock value, scare mongering
etc)
- What did it do well? What did it do perhaps not so well?
- What are your overall thoughts about the doco?
The overall goal of the documentary is to educate Australians on how wasteful they are and how big
companies need to do better.
Some strategies that the documentary used are visual representation and comparing to other things.
I think it got it point across fairly well. Craig Reucassel is a very good host.
I think some of its flaws are how much it acknowledges the bad instead of congratulating the good.
My overall thoughts on the documentary are mostly positive. It did a good job getting it’s point
across, using lots of different means of representation. It did seem a little too negative at times, but
it was mostly entertaining.