Fair TradeThe European Union

Nationalities in our SchoolLitter & Waste

Global Citizenship

Nations must unite to make the world right

(Cillian O Corcora 4th)

Fair Trade is how friends are made (Jack Mc Grath 4th)

Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine (Tadhg Foley 4th)

Slogans

Slogan Competition Entries

‘Before you finish eating your breakfast in the morning you have depended on half the world’

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fair Trade

Fair Trade Products

Action DayFair Trade Friday

The European Union There are 27 memeber

countries in the EU.

Ireland currently holds the presidency.

The EU was set up after the 2nd world war to promote peace and trade.

Projects & Displays

The 27 member states

Nations represented in our school

Ireland

Poland

Russia

U.K.

China

Latvia

If your country is not included please let us know

U.S.A.

Nigeria

Congo

Lithuania

Vietnam

Bangladesh

Romania

Slovakia

Projects

Fruit from around the World

Open Night

Open Night Display 2012

Every year we have a Green School Display at open night

Litter, Waste & Recycling

A visit from the Litter Warden

Waste & Recycling for our school 2011-2012

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School Waste & Recycling 2011-2012 Waste (litres)

Recycling (litres)

Total Recycling & Waste School Year 2011-2012

Recycling 31,680 litres

Waste 6,240 litres

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Why Recycle?

We recycle phones, glasses & batteries

‘If we don’t change direction we are likely to end up where we are

headed.’

Chinese Proverb

Recycling saves on natural resources such as oil water and metal

Plastic bottles can be recycled into

new bottles fleece jumpers car mats

Recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy required to produce new aluminium from raw materials.

Recycling 1 plastic bottle will save enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 3 hours.

Recycling saves energy

You pay less to have your recycling bin collected than for you waste bin collection

Recycling saves you money

Waste dumped in landfill instead of recycling produces methane which contributes to Global Warming.

Recycling also saves energy.

Recycling helps the environment

In 2009 Ireland was ranked 2nd in Europe for greenhouse gas emission per head.

Greenhouse gasses contribute to climate change.

Climate change leads to an increase in floods hurricanes and drought.

The developed world is mainly responsible for climate change

Climate change hits the poorer countries hardest.

Did you know ?

What happens to your

Recycling ?

Wiser Group Ltd own their own Recycling Recovery Facility in Co. Tipperary.

Here materials are sorted into Cardboard,Aluminium,Steel,Plastic & Paper.

These are made into 1 tonne bales and shipped to be reused abroad.

Electricity is being generated from the general waste collected.

We wrote to Wiser who collect our school waste and this is what we found out

Wood ……………………91% Aluminium ……………32% Textiles …………………45% Plastics …………………13% Glass ……………………..4% Paper/Cardboard ….less than 1% Electrical Waste….…less than 1%

Waste recycled here in Ireland

Why do we ship so much of our

recyclables abroad ?

Is this a good enough excuse considering how much waste we generate ?

Why not take action and write to a politician about this

..becausewe haven’t developed the facilities to deal

with it here.

He told us that

“European directive has no power to legislate over what goes on outside the EU…….

…The waste directive however encourages the use of local waste management where possible”

We wrote to Brian Crowley MEP

Recycling Electronic Waste

By 2008, Irish people were ranked 4th in Europe for recycling household electrical waste..

Electronic waste can pollute soil and drinking water.

It accounts for 70% of the overall toxic waste found in landfills.

Virtually every household electrical item can be recycled.

In Ireland you can no longer dispose of IT equipment in a bin, skip or waste tip.

Recycling Electrical Waste

Since 2008 all shops that sell batteries must take back your waste batteries for recycling.

Car Batteries can be brought back to your local garage.

Lots of electronic waste is exported to other countries. Some of this is done illegally.

Poor people in these countries put their health at risk, during the dismantling process.

Once dismantled the unrecyclable parts often end up thrown in toxic piles in these countries.

New EU directives will force us to take more responsibility for what becomes of the waste we ship abroad.

What happens to electronic waste

Raphael is a 10 year old boy living in Ghana.

His hands are cut from collecting sharp copper wire from electrical waste at a dump.

Fires are lit to burn off plastic.

He gets headaches from the fumes.

The river nearby is polluted from the dump.

Raphael’s Story

A child sits on top of a pile of unrecyclable waste in China

Recycling is good but it is better not to create electrical waste in the first place

Before you upgrade your phone or TV ask yourself if you really need to.

Can you give it to someone else who would use it?

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Did you Know

In India people have greater access to mobile phones than to toilets.

Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves

13 trees

31,ooo litres of water

Results in 75% less air pollution

Borneo may lose half of its orangutangs due to deforestation.

The average Irish family consumes around 500 glass bottles a year

Glass is very easy to recycle.

Recycling 1 tonne of glass saves over 300kgs of Carbon Dioxide emissions.

Glass Recycling

Plastic packaging from food often ends up in dumped in landfill. This pollutes and is harmful to wild life.

Plastic and glass can take up to 1000 years to break down.

Next time you go shopping see if you can buy unpackaged fruit and veg.

By 2010 in Ireland 74% of our packaging waste was being recycled.

Packaging Waste

Investigating Packaging Waste

In 2010 Ireland produced the 4th highest level of waste per head in Europe. Latvia had the lowest.

The average Irish household produces 1 tonne of waste per year.

That’s the equivalent to the weight of about 20 children

Waste that goes to dumps produces methane which leads to global warming.

Recycle or compost when you can. 2/3 of our waste can be diverted from landfill.

Slim your Bin Challenge

Green Flag Day 2011

Ice cream..Yum!

Green Flag Day

Speech speech! And the band played..

Raising the Flag

Thank You For Watching. From: The Green Team