Exploring Sustainability: Recycling, Water Purification, and Paper Making in Belgium

1. Sustainability – cankiri 2011 Kendra - Nicky – Stephanie - Sylvie

2. Week of the environment 21st – 25th February 2011

3. Visit recycling centre

4. HIDRODOE

5. Environment quiz

6. Purification of water

7. Recycle store

8. Show “Low impact man”

9. 3 PRODUCTS soup – paper - water

10. Fromvegetablestosoup • In Belgium some of the people grow their own vegetables • We make all sorts of things with them • We will show you how we made a bowl of soup with our own-grown vegetables.

11. Mainingredïents We made this soup with • leek, • carrots and • courgette. We also used beef.

12. Cutting the vegetables • First you cut the vegetables. • In really small pieces.

13. Making bouillon When you want to make bouillon for your soup you cook the beef in a bowl of hot water

14. Cooking the vegetables • Than you butter the bowl • and cook your vegetables in hot water. • That should take about 10 minutes.

15. Mixing the vegetables Afterwards you mix the vegetables.

16. Done, now you can serve the soup you made of your own grown vegetables.

17. Afiyetolsun Hopefully the soup was delicious. But we are quit sure our fotographer loved our soup.

18. Aquafin: water purification station • ‘week of the environment’ from 21 to 25 February 2010 • Visit of the water purification station Aquafin • 10 minutes from our school “by bike” • Recycling water = sewage purification

19. Polluted water • This is the water that comes out of oursewers. • They collect all the water in one big basin.

20. Grids • Grids: they pick up the trash out of the water. • In St-Niklaas they work with two grids to maximalise the effect.

21. Driedtrash In this picture you can see all of the trash that is picked out of the water by the grids. This is mainly dried leaves and branches.

22. Oil- andsandcatcher • rests in a small basin • the oil floats on the surface of the water • the sand sinks to the bottom of the basin •   easier to purify

23. Sludgebasin This is a basin where they get the sludge out of the water. The sludge sinks to the bottom of the basin and the cleaner water floats away.

24. Aerationbasin In thisbasinthey put bacteria in the water. The bacteriaeat the dangeroussubstances that are not visible to the eye.

25. And at the end this remains. This water is clean, but not drinkable. They let it flow back to the river.

26. Before it is drinkable it needs a special purification. After this it is drinkable

27. From tree to paper

28. Tree The tree is the main material to make paper. They don’t use the bark of the tree.

29. They cut down the trees and bring them to a sawmill to cut them into bits. These bits are being cooked in hot water.

30. This are the cooked bits of tree • This pulp is put in a papermachine • They remove the water out of the pulp.

31. They dry the pulp and press it together. • After this they make it smooth. • In the end they role the paper on roles.

32. Recycling paper • When paper is used, it goes to the fabric (Sita or VPK) • They remove all the ink • The inkfree paper is used again as posters, cardboard and brochures • You can recycle paper 4 times.

33. Ecological Footprint

34. Interview • 57 people • 29 women • 28 men • Age: 16 – 20 • wwf-footprint.be

36. Average footprints • Belgian: 8 hectare • German: 5,1 hectare • African: 1,4 hectare

37. Some tips to make your ecological footprint smaller

38. Replace twice a week meat by a vegetarian alternative.

39. Replace new paper by recycled paper

40. Take a shower in stead of a bath

41. Turn of the heating 30 minutes before leaving the house or going to sleep

42. Do not use the airconditioning in your car

43. Don’t drive to fast

46. Thanks for your attention TESEKKÜR