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Come on: Be a Tidy Kiwi

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Tidy Kiwi challenge

Are you a tidy Kiwi? Find out here!

Image of Skate boy It's easy to find out if you're a Tidy Kiwi. If you are, we'll recognise your efforts with your very own I'm a Tidy Kiwi certificate!

Read the questions below. Imagine you're in the situation and then decide what you would do from the options listed. When you've answered all the questions click the 'Check my answers' button at the bottom to find out if you're a tidy Kiwi!

Need help? ... try clicking on the links in the questions for some hints.

Question One

Image of cans You're walking down the street with your friends and you're drinking soft-drink from a can. You finish the drink but can't see a rubbish bin anywhere.

What do you do?

	Hold onto the can until you find a blue-lidded recycling wheelie bin and then throw it in the bin.
	Throw the can into a red-lidded wheelie bin that someone has left out on the street.
	Throw the can in the gutter. Where's it going to go anyway?

Question Two

Image of paint tins You are at your Grandfather's place and he's cleaning out the shed. He's got lots of left over paint and he takes off the lid and says he's going to throw it down the drain.

What do you do?

	Stop him throwing the paint in the drain and just leave it in the shed for the inorganic collection.
	Stop him, tell him why he shouldn't put paint down the drain, and tell him he can return paint and paint tins to a Resene Colourshop or a PlaceMakers store that participates in the Enviropaint take back recycling scheme. You can also take toxic or marine antifouling paint only to the Hazmobile.
	You don't do anything. What's wrong with putting paint down the drain anyway?

Question Three

You're with your Mum at the ATM. She gets her money, takes her receipt and then throws the receipt onto the footpath.

What do you do?

	Leave the receipt on the ground. There are lots more lying around, you think, so why do I have to pick it up?
	Tell your Mum she shouldn't litter but neither of you bother to pick it up.
	Pick up the receipt, put it in the bin and tell your Mum why littering is a problem.

Question Four

Image of a bus You're going to the Auckland Zoo on the bus with your family. When you get out of the bus, your bus ticket falls out of your pocket and falls onto the street.

What do you do?

	Pick it up but you can't find a rubbish bin so you drop it down the drain.
	Leave it where it is. Someone will pick it up later won't they?
	Pick up the ticket and find a rubbish bin to throw it in.

Question Five

It's your sister's turn to put the rubbish out for collection the next morning. You see her taking some cardboard boxes and putting them in the red-lidded wheelie bin.

What do you do?

	Talk to her about paper recycling. Tell her to take the boxes out of the bin, flatten them and then place them in the blue-lidded recycling wheelie bin.
	You leave it. Cardboard boxes are rubbish aren't they?
	You tell her to take them out of the bin. She takes them out, leaves them beside the road, and they get blown away in the night.

Question Six

You take your dog to the local dog exercise area for a walk. Half way through your walk, the dog does his droppings beside a tree.

What do you do?

	Use the plastic bag you've got with you to pick up the droppings and take it home to throw away.
	Keep walking and pretend it wasn't your dog.
	You leave it there. It's only going to stay there and rot isn't it?

Question Seven

It's your turn to make dinner, and you're doing sausages, carrots, mashed potatoes and peas. You've peeled the carrots and potatoes and now you have to get rid of the peelings.

What do you do? Image of a compost bin

	You put the peelings in the rubbish bin.
	You put the peelings in a container that you'll take out to the compost bin after dinner. Compost is great for the garden!
	You put the peelings in the waste disposal. It gets rid of it so quickly!

Question Eight

Image of a school You're at soccer practise and you see someone tagging the clubrooms beside the field. Remember, you shouldn't approach a stranger.

What do you do?

	You leave it until you get home and tell your parents. You tell them about the number they can call to report graffiti.
	You tell the coach about it, but you don't know if he'll do anything about it.
	You don't do anything. The rooms are covered in graffiti anyway. It doesn't really matter does it?

Question Nine

Image of fish Your brother is mowing the lawns and you see him stop and walk towards the stream, which is just over the fence. You think he's going to dump the grass clippings near the stream.

What do you do?

	You yell out to him to stop. He does, but throws the grass clippings in the red-lidded wheelie bin.
	You know dumping grass clippings near waterways is bad, so you yell out to him to stop. He does, and you tell him to empty the catcher into the compost bin.
	You don't do anything. There's lots of grass near the stream so the grass clippings will blend in.

Question Ten

When you bike home from school, you go past a factory near the stream. One afternoon you notice that the stream water is a funny colour and looks polluted.

What do you do?

	You don't do anything. The stream always looks like that.
	You go to the stream with your Mum and have a look. It doesn't look too bad, and you take some rubbish from off the bank.
	When you get home you tell your Mum. She phones the pollution number at Auckland Regional Council and they investigate the problem.