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Global Citizenship. Fair Trade The European Union Nationalities in our School Litter & Waste. Slogans. Nations must unite to make the world right ( Cillian O Corcora 4 th) Fair Trade is how friends are made (Jack Mc Grath 4 th ) Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine
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Global Citizenship • Fair Trade • The European Union • Nationalities in our School • Litter & Waste
Slogans • Nations must unite to make the world right • (Cillian O Corcora 4th) • Fair Trade is how friends are made • (Jack McGrath 4th) • Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine • (Tadhg Foley 4th)
Martin Luther King Jr. • ‘Before you finish eating your breakfast in the morning you have depended on half the world’
The European Union • There are 27memeber countries in the EU. • Ireland currently holds the presidency. • The EU was set up after the 2nd world war to promote peace and trade.
Nations represented in our school Ireland • Poland • Russia • U.K. • China • Latvia
U.S.A. • Nigeria • Congo • Lithuania • Vietnam • Bangladesh • Romania • Slovakia If your country is not included please let us know
Open Night • Every year we have a Green School Display at open night Open Night Display 2012
Chinese Proverb • ‘If we don’t change direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.’
Recycling saves on natural resources such as oil water and metal • Plastic bottles can be recycled into • new bottles • fleece jumpers • carmats
Recycling saves energy • 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.
Recycling saves you money • You pay less to have your recycling bin collected than for you waste bin collection
Recycling helps the environment • Waste dumped in landfill instead of recycling produces methane which contributes to Global Warming. • Recycling also saves energy.
Did you know ? • In 2009 Ireland was ranked 2ndin Europe for greenhouse gas emission per head. • Greenhouse gasses contribute to climate change. • Climate change leads to an increase in floods hurricanes and drought. • The developed world is mainly responsible for climate change • Climate change hits the poorer countries hardest.
We wrote to Wiser who collect our school waste and this is what we found out • Wiser Group Ltd own their own Recycling Recovery Facility in Co. Tipperary. • Here materials are sorted into Cardboard,Aluminium,Steel,Plastic & Paper. • These are made into 1 tonne bales and shipped to be reused abroad. • Electricity is being generated from the general waste collected.
Waste recycled here in Ireland • Wood ……………………91% • Aluminium ……………32% • Textiles …………………45% • Plastics …………………13% • Glass ……………………..4% • Paper/Cardboard ….less than 1% • Electrical Waste….…less than 1%
..becausewe haven’t developed the facilities to deal with it here. • Is this a good enough excuse considering how much waste we generate ? • Why not take action and write to a politician about this
We wrote to Brian Crowley MEP • 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”
Recycling Electronic Waste • By 2008, Irish people were ranked 4th in Europe for recycling household electrical waste..
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.
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.
What happens to electronic waste • 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.
Raphael’s Story • Raphael is a 10 year old boy living in Ghana. • His hands are cut from collecting sharp copper wire from electrical waste at a dump. • Fires are lit to burn off plastic. • He gets headaches from the fumes. • The river nearby is polluted from the dump.
A child sits on top of a pile of unrecyclable waste in China
Reduce Reuse Recycle • 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?
Did you Know • In India people have greater access to mobile phones than to toilets.
Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves • 13 trees • 31,ooo litres of water • Results in 75% less air pollution
Borneo may lose half of its orangutangs due to deforestation.
Glass Recycling • 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.
Packaging Waste • 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.
