Transcript Why Recycle? - Green Schools Ireland

 Fair
Trade
 The European Union
 Nationalities in our School
 Litter & Waste
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Nations must unite to make the world
right
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Fair Trade is how friends are made
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Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine
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‘Before you finish eating your breakfast in
the morning you have depended on half the
world’
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There are 27 memeber
countries in the EU.
Ireland currently holds the
presidency.
The EU was set up after
the 2nd world war to
promote peace and trade.
Ireland
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U.K.
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China
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Latvia
Poland
Russia
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U.S.A.
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Vietnam
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Nigeria
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Bangladesh
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Congo
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Romania
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Lithuania
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Slovakia
If your country is not
included please let us know
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Open Night Display
2012
Every year we have a
Green School Display
at open night
School Waste & Recycling 2011-2012
Waste (litres)
Recycling (litres)
12000
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August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
December
November
October
September
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Total Recycling & Waste
School Year 2011-2012
Recycling 31,680 litres
Waste
6,240 litres
25000
20000
15000
Recycling (litres)
Waste (litres)
10000
5000
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Sept-Dec Jan-Apr May-Aug Sept-Dec Jan-Apr May-Sept
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we don’t change direction we
are likely to end up where we
are headed.’
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Plastic bottles can
be recycled into
new bottles
fleece jumpers
car mats
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Recycling aluminium saves 95% of
the energy required to produce new
aluminium from raw materials.
Recycling 1 plastic bottle will save
enough energy to power a 60 watt
light bulb for 3 hours.
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pay less to have your
recycling bin collected
than for you waste bin
collection
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Waste dumped in landfill instead of recycling
produces methane which contributes to Global
Warming.
Recycling also saves energy.
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In 2009 Ireland was ranked 2nd in Europe for
greenhouse gas emission per head.
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Greenhouse gasses contribute to climate change.
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Climate change leads to an increase in floods
hurricanes and drought.
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The developed world is mainly responsible for
climate change
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Climate change hits the poorer countries hardest.
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Wiser Group Ltd own their own Recycling
Recovery Facility in Co. Tipperary.
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Here materials are sorted into
Cardboard,Aluminium,Steel,Plastic & Paper.
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These are made into 1 tonne bales and shipped
to be reused abroad.
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Electricity is being generated from the general
waste collected.
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Wood ……………………91%
Aluminium ……………32%
Textiles …………………45%
Plastics …………………13%
Glass ……………………..4%
Paper/Cardboard ….less than 1%
Electrical Waste….…less than 1%
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Is this a good enough excuse considering
how much waste we generate ?
Why not take action and write to a politician
about this
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He told us that
“European directive has no power to
legislate over what goes on outside the
EU…….
…The waste directive however encourages
the use of local waste management where
possible”
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By 2008, Irish people
were ranked 4th in
Europe for recycling
household electrical
waste..
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Electronic waste can pollute soil and
drinking water.
It accounts for 70% of the overall toxic
waste found in landfills.
Virtually every household electrical item can
be recycled.
In Ireland you can no longer dispose of IT
equipment in a bin, skip or waste tip.
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Since 2008 all shops that sell batteries
must take back your waste batteries for
recycling.
Car Batteries can be brought back to your
local garage.
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Lots of electronic waste is exported to other
countries. Some of this is done illegally.
Poor people in these countries put their health
at risk, during the dismantling process.
Once dismantled the unrecyclable parts often
end up thrown in toxic piles in these countries.
New EU directives will force us to take more
responsibility for what becomes of the waste
we ship abroad.
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Raphael is a 10 year old boy living in Ghana.
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His hands are cut from collecting sharp copper
wire from electrical waste at a dump.
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Fires are lit to burn off plastic.
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He gets headaches from the fumes.
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The river nearby is polluted from the dump.
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Recycling is good but it is better not to
create electrical waste in the first place
Before you upgrade your phone or TV ask
yourself if you really need to.
Can you give it to someone else who would
use it?
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India people
have greater
access to
mobile phones
than to toilets.
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13 trees
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31,ooo litres of water
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Results in 75% less
air pollution
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The average Irish family consumes around
500 glass bottles a year
Glass is very easy to recycle.
Recycling 1 tonne of glass saves over
300kgs of Carbon Dioxide emissions.
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Plastic packaging from food often ends up
in dumped in landfill. This pollutes and is
harmful to wild life.
Plastic and glass can take up to 1000 years
to break down.
Next time you go shopping see if you can
buy unpackaged fruit and veg.
By 2010 in Ireland 74% of our packaging
waste was being recycled.
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In 2010 Ireland produced the 4th highest level
of waste per head in Europe. Latvia had the
lowest.
The average Irish household produces 1 tonne
of waste per year.
That’s the equivalent to the weight of about 20
children
Waste that goes to dumps produces methane
which leads to global warming.
Recycle or compost when you can.
2/3 of our waste can be diverted from landfill.
Ice cream..Yum!
Speech speech!
And the band played..