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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A really rubbish lesson
St Mary’s High School
Eco Committee
Present
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
On average every person in the UK
throws away their own body weight in rubbish
every 7 weeks
It takes just 25 2 litre drink bottles
to make 1 adult size fleece
25
Recycling two glass bottles saves enough energy to boil water for five cups of tea.
As much as 50% of
waste in the average
dustbin could be
composted
Every day 80 million food and drinks cans
end up in landfill (being buried) - that's one and a half cans per person.
A banana skin can take up to two years to decompose if not disposed of properly
Container glass (bottles and jars) is 100%
recyclable and can be used AGAIN
FOREVER
and AGAIN and AGAIN
and AGAINand AGAIN
Every year the average British family throws away
6 trees worth of paper
More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped
each year in the UK alone, equivalent weight
of 18 blue whales
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
Every disposable nappy that
has ever been thrown away, still exists in landfill sites.
The average useful life of plastic carrier bags is
12 mins yet they take between
500 to 1000 years
to break down in landfill sites
Rotting food and paper in landfill sites…..
produces……..
METHANE
Methane is a Greenhouse Gas
23 times more powerful than CO2 – leading to
global warming
Can we do better?
• 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
YES
Litter
throw your litter on the ground.
Use the correct bin.
Don’t
Don’t be lazy
We’re still being lazy
These are…. DRAINS NOT BINS
Green for general waste, blue for recycled. We should have more blue bins than green…..we can do better – together!
Switch off lights if they are not needed
What can we do?
•Turn off lights and computers when not in use
•Reduce our waste
•Recycle as much as we can
•Reuse things like plastic bags & paper
•Use the correct bins for our rubbish
• 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!
Thanks for watching
The Eco Committee