AQA A level urban waste

This is a fully resourced lesson TEEP style lesson. There is a lot of exam practice within with knowledge checks.

The main parts of the lesson include…the different types of waste, an evaluation of incineration vs landfill and lots of exam practice opportunities.

Suggested resources other than those withing include
AS/A level Hodder textbook
A/S/A level Cambridge textbook

To address this part of the SPECIFICATION:

3.2.3.6 Urban waste and its disposal
Urban physical waste generation: sources of waste - industrial and commercial activity, personal
consumption. Relation of waste components and waste streams to economic characteristics,
lifestyles and attitudes. The environmental impacts of alternative approaches to waste disposal:
unregulated, recycling, recovery, incineration, burial, submergence and trade.
Comparison of incineration and landfill approaches to waste disposal in relation to a specified
urban area.