Waste management

By Tobias, Trygve, Hanne, Jonas, Marine and Diana

What is waste management?

All over the globe (Holland)

• the Netherlands is able to recycle no less than 64% of its waste – and most of the remainder is used to generate electricity. As a result, only a small percentage ends up in landfill.

• Containers for recyclable garbage

• The largest waste streams are construction and demolition waste

and industrial waste.

All over the globe (France)

• Greenfield: It’`s an industry which recycle paper of Paris regions. This recycle paper sold to firm that want to communicate there role actions.

• In france people put an electronic chip on the bin to identifiate which bin belongs to whom, if your bin is not always full you don’t put in in the street you pay less taxes.

• In France we have differente bin: one for plastic, one for glasses, one for paper and one for the other things.

• The city give boxes for composting food waste, so that there will be less waste to collect;

All over the globe (Spain)

• We recycle glass, paper, plastic, organic and other kinds of waste. Other bin for clothes.

• There are a lot of laws but not a lot of them are applied. In some towns there are some laws that punish people who don’t recycle.

• Some campaigns that encourage people to change their electric appliances for some more efficient.

• When you buy an electric appliance you are already paying for the recycling process this appliance will go through when it is no longer in use.

All over the globe (Norway)• Recycling shops

• Depositing of bottles

• Source separation

Plastic

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Residual waste

Electric waste

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Consequenses

• Now plastic pollution in the seas kills over a million sea birds and 100,000 mammals and turtles each year (ex: the albatros bird on Midway).

• Waste goes in the groundwater and pollutes the water.

• This kind of landscape isn’t good to attract tourism.

• Waste takes a long time to break down.

How can we reduce waste?

• R-educe – unnecassary packaging, quit buying more than we need, the shops need to quit the 3 for the price of 2 campaigns.

• R-euse – Consider reusable products, maintain and repair, reuse bags and containers, borrow – rent and share, sell or donate.

• R-cycle – Choose recyclable products and containers, compost yard and foodscraps.

• R-espond – Educate others on source reduction and recycling practices.

What can you do?

• Don’t throw things away in the streets

• Try to reuse things! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgCQgzJOU4

• Try to seperate paper, glass and plastic

Thank you for listening!