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Global Citizenship

Global Citizenship. Fair Trade The European Union Nationalities in our School Litter & Waste. Slogans. Nations must unite to make the world right ( Cillian O Corcora 4 th) Fair Trade is how friends are made (Jack Mc Grath 4 th ) Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine

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Global Citizenship

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  1. Global Citizenship • Fair Trade • The European Union • Nationalities in our School • Litter & Waste

  2. Slogans • Nations must unite to make the world right • (Cillian O Corcora 4th) • Fair Trade is how friends are made • (Jack McGrath 4th) • Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine • (Tadhg Foley 4th)

  3. Slogan Competition Entries

  4. Martin Luther King Jr. • ‘Before you finish eating your breakfast in the morning you have depended on half the world’

  5. Fair Trade

  6. Fair Trade Products

  7. Action DayFair Trade Friday

  8. The European Union • There are 27memeber countries in the EU. • Ireland currently holds the presidency. • The EU was set up after the 2nd world war to promote peace and trade.

  9. Projects & Displays

  10. The 27 member states

  11. Nations represented in our school Ireland • Poland • Russia • U.K. • China • Latvia

  12. U.S.A. • Nigeria • Congo • Lithuania • Vietnam • Bangladesh • Romania • Slovakia If your country is not included please let us know

  13. Projects

  14. Fruit from around the World

  15. Open Night • Every year we have a Green School Display at open night Open Night Display 2012

  16. Litter, Waste & Recycling

  17. A visit from the Litter Warden

  18. Waste & Recycling for our school 2011-2012

  19. Waste & Recycling 2011-2013

  20. Why Recycle?

  21. We recycle phones, glasses & batteries

  22. Chinese Proverb • ‘If we don’t change direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.’

  23. Recycling saves on natural resources such as oil water and metal • Plastic bottles can be recycled into • new bottles • fleece jumpers • carmats

  24. Recycling saves energy • 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.

  25. Recycling saves you money • You pay less to have your recycling bin collected than for you waste bin collection

  26. Recycling helps the environment • Waste dumped in landfill instead of recycling produces methane which contributes to Global Warming. • Recycling also saves energy.

  27. Did you know ? • In 2009 Ireland was ranked 2ndin 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.

  28. What happens to your Recycling ?

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

  30. Waste recycled here in Ireland • Wood ……………………91% • Aluminium ……………32% • Textiles …………………45% • Plastics …………………13% • Glass ……………………..4% • Paper/Cardboard ….less than 1% • Electrical Waste….…less than 1%

  31. Why do we ship so much of our recyclables abroad ?

  32. ..becausewe haven’t developed the facilities to deal with it here. • Is this a good enough excuse considering how much waste we generate ? • Why not take action and write to a politician about this

  33. We wrote to Brian Crowley MEP • 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”

  34. Recycling Electronic Waste • By 2008, Irish people were ranked 4th in Europe for recycling household electrical waste..

  35. 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.

  36. Recycling Electrical Waste

  37. 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.

  38. What happens to electronic waste • 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.

  39. Raphael’s Story • 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.

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

  41. Reduce Reuse Recycle • 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?

  42. Did you Know • In India people have greater access to mobile phones than to toilets.

  43. Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves • 13 trees • 31,ooo litres of water • Results in 75% less air pollution

  44. Borneo may lose half of its orangutangs due to deforestation.

  45. Glass Recycling • 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.

  46. Packaging Waste • 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.

  47. Investigating Packaging Waste

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