Recycling in our district

Our project “El reciclatge al districte” (Recycling in our district), is based on research about what the City Council is doing to educate citizens about the importance of recycling, such as carrying out the process and what its importance for the future is.

The hypothesis of our project was to find out if the task of recycling in the district is correct.

We studied the theory and then we tested it by analysing the containers’ trash of our district. By doing it, we obtained the following conclusions:

- The team responsible for recycling in the district want to get closer to people by providing more recycling facilities and making them accessible to everyone.

- A part of the population doesn’t know about many aspects of recycling due to the little interest to leave a sustainable world to future generations.

- The process of recycling is very complex, that’s why everyone must collaborate.

- Only 30% of people in Les Corts went to pick a garbage bucket for organic trash.

Finally, we not only believe that the district is doing a correct task towards recycling, it’s also striving to improve it everyday.

Araidna Rivera, Cristina Rodríguez, Eva Marín and Clàudia Pellín

Col·legi Pare Manyanet (Barcelona)

Recycling between different schools: the students and their families

Results of general questions:

a) Hazardous waste:

• How many appliances do you usewhich are in need of batteries?
• Which kind of batteries do you use?
• Where do you dispose batteries
• Do you take expired medicaments back to the pharmacy?

b) Paper:

• Do you put waste paper into the paper bank?
• Which pads/exercise books do you use (eg. in school)?
• How many pieces of paper do you approximately use per day?
• What do you use for wiping eg. stains or spilled drinks on tables or kitchen cupboards

c) Everyday life:

• Do you wrap some things more than one time? (eg. Lunch packets, content of parcles.
• What do you use for packing food etc?
• How many hygenic products do you have? ( eg. Shampoo, all kinds of cosmetic products, cremes etc).
• Do you refill some bottles of hygenic products eg. soap dispensers.
• Do you eat/ drink things regularly out of home ?(eg. in fast foo restaurants, cinema, bakery).
• Do you buy products which comply with organic/ecological rules?
• How often do you take full rubbish bags out into the rubbish containers?
• How many liters does your normal rubbish bag contain?
• Do you print out texts, information (etc) from the Internet to read them?
• Do you generally separate different kinds of rubbish like glass, paper, plastic,compost (etc)?
• How do you mainly come to school?
• How often do you use your washing machine?
• Do you wait until you got enough to fill it completely?
• Do you own an automatic dryer?
• How often do you approximately buy new electronic appliances? (eg. Cell phone, MP3 players but also big appliances like stove etc).
• If you are no longer in use of your eg. computer or television you....

The higher the score, the more environmental harm is done. So low figures are better.