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3rd Gymnasio of Kalamata Kalamata, Greece
We started this project after attending an exhibition on how to improve our city.
Rubbish disposal is the main problem facing our country today. Most cities in Greece are running out of landfills.
These days Kalamata is facing one of the worst rubbish problems in its history: What are we going to do with our rubbish?
Each person produces about half a tonne of garbage per year. This means that we must find new landfills or expand existing ones to take care of the rubbish problem.
If you examine a rubbish bin in Kalamata you will find that the greatest proportion is organic substances, namely food waste. First prize rubbish winner is paper followed by plastic, metal and glass.
We took a good look at the rubbish thrown around
near our school.
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Organic
Plastic
Aluminium
Metal
Fabric (ieclothes)Glass
Wood
Car tires
others
Our results
How can we deal with the problem?
• Reduce consumption and packaging
• Reuse • Recycle
Saves Natural Resources - By making things from recycled materials instead of new materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to use virgin natural resources like trees, oil and minerals.
Saves Energy - It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminium, for example, takes 95% less energy than new aluminium from bauxite ore.
Saves Landfill Space - When you recycle less rubbish goes into landfills or incinerators, so
landfill space is conserved.
Saves Clean Air and Water - In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.
Saves Money and Creates Jobs - The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.
To sum up -it protects the environment and OUR FUTURE!!
Paper Plastic Metals - ferrous (steel) and non ferrous (aluminium) Glass
Other things that can be recycled:
Batteries, motor oil, tires, toxics, Electric appliances , computer printers and print cartridges,
mobile phones
We can collect newspapers and magazines cardboard, shredded paper, even wrappings – with no food remains ,
For every tonne of
recycled paper 17 trees and 25 tonnes of
water are saved
2:The paper is taken to a recycling plant where it is separated into types and grades
3: The separated paper is then washed with soapy water to remove inks, plastic film, staples and glue. The paper is put into a large holder where it is mixed with water to create ‘slurry’.
4. By adding different
materials to the slurry, different
paper products can be created,
such as cardboard,
newsprints or office paper.
5. The slurry is spread using large rollers into large thin sheets.
Paper is taken from the bin and deposited in a large recycling container along with paper from other recycling
bins.
The paper is left to dry, and then it is rolled up ready to
be cut and sent back
to the shops.
There are about 50 different types of plastic. Because of this, they each carry a resin identification code and must be sorted into these codes before they can be recycled The main types include: HDPE – Opaque bottles PVC – Transparent bottles, with a seam running across the base PET – Transparent bottles, with a hard moulded spot in the centre of the base
An average Greek household produces 17.4 % more plastic rubbish than the average European.
Resin identification code
Ferrous metals – steel and iron recycling Iron and steel are the world's most recycled materials and among the easiest materials to reprocess. Non-ferrous metals – Aluminium is one of the most efficient and widely-recycled materials .
Recycling metal containers is environmentally friendly and easy.The recycler separates the aluminium from the steel cans by using an industrial sized magnet to pick up the steel cans.
1. The separated cans are crushed, baled together,
and sent on to the appropriate mill.
2. At the mill the cans are exposed to high
heat and melted down. The resulting material is
used to make more products from steel or
aluminium.
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Using recycled aluminium to make aluminium cans saves 95%
of the energy compared to producing aluminium cans from
ore
Aluminium cans are unique in that in 60 days a can is recycled, turned into a new can & back on
store shelves.
Aluminium is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over
and over again.
Be informed about the recycling programmes in your area.
Reuse whenever and whatever you canPut all recyclable materials into the correct recycling
bins. Put organic substances into a compost box to turn
them into fertilizer. Avoiding unnecessary market products and
unnecessary packaging. Buy products in recycled packaging or packaging that
can be reused. Support recycled products.
Our city’s recycling programme started on October 20th 2005.
It has been a huge success!
Rubbish is separated in Kalamata and sent to Athens. It is not recycled in our
city.
RECYCLING SYMBOLS
20%
Green dot20%of the
packaging is made of recycled material
Recyclable
Recyclable plasticAluminium recyclying
Legislationhe European Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste sets recovery and recycling targets for all packaging materials and
covers all types of packaging - domestic, commercial and industrial. The materials are steel, aluminium, paper, plastic, glass and wood.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994
…Article 7 Return, collection and recovery systems 1. Member States shall
take the necessary measures to ensure that systems are set up to provide for:
(a) the return and/or collection of used packaging and/or packaging waste from the consumer, other final user, or from the waste stream in order to channel it to the most appropriate waste
management alternatives;(b) the reuse or recovery including recycling of the packaging
and/or packaging waste collected,in order to meet the objectives laid down in this Directive.