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.