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.

Our first results: CO2 emissions

Comparison of the cities: Wath (9,03 t), Bouchum (9,43 t) and Barcelona (12,91 t).

Cartoons about the media: think green!

From... Wath Comprehensive School

We are currently in Y10. We have 45 pupils in the Comenius group today (20-1-10) working on the environment project.

We have about 17 students in a group that is working on the recycling materials. Instead of getting rid of magazines and stuff like that, the group are making strong paper carrier bags!

We also have two groups, one of which is in year 8 (13 years old) and the other group which is in year 10. Both are doing presentations. The Year 10’s are doing a display about the Comenius visit to Bochum – Germany which will be put in our main hall. The year 8 group are working on a Powerpoint presentation on the launch of our recycling program which will happen in March. The Presentation will be shown to all of the school. We have the rest of the group looking at how recycling works across Europe. Four of our Comenius students are making a documentary film about how green our school is. They have also been interviewing students in the various Comenius groups on what they have been doing in the morning.

Jordan Hoblin & Bethany Smith from Wath Comprehensive School.

Welcome to the Comenius Project

We have created a new communication channel that will go beyond the classroom. With this new tool we would like to make comments, to suggest news, videos or images that might be interesting subjects to work on: we will link news sites, written documents and visual documents that will allow us to analyze our Project "making a world of difference”. The meeting at Albert Einstein Schule (Germany) in late October was the starting point of our multilateral Project. The objective: reclycling and ecological awareness in our schools and a culture of change in our own communities. We welcome the participating schools: Wath Comprensive School (Rotherham), Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum) and Col·legi Pare Manyanet (Barcelona). Good luck with the Comenius Project!

Welcome to the blog of the Comenius Project

Welcome to the website of the Comenius Project, dedicated to exchanging ideas to solve environmental problems. On October 28 we met in Bochum various students and teachers from colleges participating in this project: Pare Manyanet (Barcelona), (Wath) and Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum). In this first meeting, we exchanged ideas, and made a logo and a manifesto for the project. The meeting was very interesting and entertaining, and concluded with the presentation of this logo and the ideas we wanted to do (manifesto). Thanks to this we could enjoy meeting with students from other countries, share the same ideas and work on the same project. I hope that these next two years we can reach the goal of this project. Good job everyone!

Ariadna González and Angel Valls (Pare Manyanet)