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A really rubbish lesson

St Mary’s High School Eco Committee Present. A really rubbish lesson. The UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of waste every year. This rate of rubbish generation would fill the Albert Hall in London in less than 2 hours.

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A really rubbish lesson

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  1. St Mary’s High School Eco Committee Present A really rubbish lesson

  2. The UK produces more than 434 million tonnes of waste every year. This rate of rubbish generation would fill the Albert Hall in London in less than 2 hours

  3. On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks

  4. It takes just 25 2 litre drink bottles to make 1 adult size fleece 25

  5. Recycling two glass bottles saves enough energy to boil water for five cups of tea.

  6. As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted

  7. Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in landfill (being buried) - that's one and a half cans per person.

  8. A banana skin can take up to two years to decompose if not disposed of properly

  9. Container glass (bottles and jars) is 100% recyclable and can be used AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN FOREVER

  10. Every year the average British family throws away 6 trees worth of paper

  11. More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone, equivalent weight of 18 blue whales

  12. Each year UK households throw away the equivalent of 3 ½ million double decker buses (almost 30 million tonnes) A queue would stretch from London to Sydney (Australia) and back

  13. Every disposable nappy that has ever been thrown away, still exists in landfill sites.

  14. 12 mins The average useful life of plastic carrier bags is yet they take between 500 to 1000 years to break down in landfill sites

  15. produces…….. Rotting food and paper in landfill sites….. METHANE

  16. Methane is a Greenhouse Gas 23 times more powerful than CO2 – leading to global warming

  17. Can we do better? YES • We throw out an average of 25 full black bags of rubbish EVERY DAY in our school. Most of this could be reused or recycled….. Can we reduce this ? YES

  18. Litter Don’t throw your litter on the ground. Use the correct bin.

  19. Don’t be lazy

  20. We’re still being lazy These are…. DRAINS NOT BINS

  21. Green for general waste, blue for recycled. We should have more blue bins than green…..we can do better – together!

  22. Switch off lights if they are not needed

  23. What can we do? • Reduce our waste • Turn off lights and computers when not in use • Reuse things like plastic bags & paper • Recycle as much as we can • Use the correct bins for our rubbish

  24. Close our windows to retain heat • Keep the curtains open so the sun will warm the room • Nominate someone to be responsible for monitoring energy use in each department or have a rota system • Use email where possible – cut down on paper use • If the classroom is too warm, turn off the radiator! • Set computers to go into sleep mode • Most importantly – its everyone job! We need to work together as a school community – LET’S DO IT TOGETHER!

  25. Thanks for watching The Eco Committee

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