WASTE MANAGEMENT

The poster

• Firstly the picture is a project of VISUAL THINKING.

• That means to try to connect our ideas with simple images. The idea is to link each concept to an idea to make easier its memorization

• What we first see in the man with the question mark in the head which wonders about waste management. Then the three main R´s about the waste management appear: Reuse, Reduce and Recycle.

Secondly, we consider what things can be reused.

We think about recycling plastic which is written on a wall. The wall, is built with bricks and bricks are what we have to recycle.

There is a piece of paper underneath with some of the advantages of using paper.

Besides, we see the origin of paper from the tree to the person who uses it, and there is a recycling waste bin to use it again.

Thirdly, we can see the word “glass” with a wavy shape. This represents that water flows.

With the shape of a bottle, we have the different process of recycling glass.

• Each of the colours of the circles represents the colour of the place where we should deposit our waste to be recycled.

• This is the end of the explanation of this poster, elaborated by the IES Newton Salas about what happens in Spain and how we present it for a Comenius European project.

WASTE MANAGEMENTReducing wasteWaste is constantly being reused and does not create waste. “THE WASTE OF

SOME IS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY OTHERS”

When this balance is broken, a large amount of waste is generated, and it is not possible to integrate it in a natural way, the present problem of waste arises, above all in the developed countries.

From the 20th century, a “USE AND THROW” culture has been established,

which foments consumption and increases the amount of waste.Currently the culture of the R’S is being introduced: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

It is based on the guidelines set by the European Union:

Increasing recycling and reuse.Reducing waste production.Getting rid of the waste that can not be

recovered in a safe way.

Waste management in Spain

Types of containers according to waste

Recycling

Disposal Waste is eliminated when it can no longer be reused to build other

things. There are several methods to eliminate them: with landfillS,

incineration, storing radioactive waste and with the removal of hazardous medical waste.

TYPES OF WASTE

URBAN SOLID WASTE

It is generated by developed activities in the urban nucleus or influential areas, that is to say, in private addresses, commerce, offices and services.

There are different types:Domestic waste: generated by private addresses, resulting from domestic activityCommercial waste: generated by offices, training centres, etcConstruction waste: generated by demolitions and the restoration or repairs of

houses

Waste managementSanitary wasteSanitary waste generate a series of waste of

very particular characteristics: sanitary infectious residues, biological and anatomical remains, blood, alive vaccines, and the whole material that has been in touch with these substances, including needles and sharp and cutting material.

Undoubtedly this category of residues needs a specific management to avoid the danger of pollution of the environment, and the contagion of infectious diseases that represent a risk for the people´s health.

Industrial waste It is any element, substance or obtained object like proved

from an industrial processGreat quantity of these industrial residues can be re-used and

recycled, but the problem of this is that the technologies that they must be used are too much costly

They can be two types: inert or dangerous

Radioactive wasteIt includes any type of material that

contains radionuclides or that it is polluted by them, in proportions superior to the limits fixed by the regulatory authority.

They may not be foreseen to use or to be useful. Radioactive waste is the material that issues radioactivity.

WASTE MANAGEMENT IN OUR SCHOOL

WE RECYCLE PAPER

• In our classes, there is a separate waste bin for rubbish and a different one for paper. That paper is recycled daily in our school.

WE RECYCLE CARTONS OF EGGS

• Cartons of eggs are recycled because we use them to improve the sound of the music classes. We paint them in different colours and they are sprayed with a fire retardant and hanged on the walls.

WE DEPOSIT USED BATTERIES

• We can deposit used batteries in a special container just outside the school

Learning to use recycled materials

• Teachers adapt their teaching program to recycle in class using objects such as plastic bottle caps, bricks, shower gel plastic bottles etc.

WERECYCLE MOBILE PHONES

By recycling mobile phones in our school, We

help an NGO that provides help to

people in need as well as supporting the investigation of

the the San Filippo Syndrome

in children.