Issues Raised on Friday

Ideas:
- glass recycling saves about 50 percent of the energy required to produce virgin glass
- Plastic makes up of 11% of household waste, 40% of which is plastic bottles

Food-
Community Gardens; apartments blocks

“Ride to school”
Intention: To fight childhood obesity
Preventing greenhouse pollution; preserve energy consumption- parents driving kids to school

Kids with Compost
Primary schools with compost bins
In Japan, they recycle food waste in cafeterias and restaurants by feeding it to boars, cattle, pigs etc to the nearest farm – they would divide in two categories vegetarian and meat, depending on animals

- In primary schools ‘paper pick up day’ therefore would teach the importance of recycling food scraps etc.
- Worm farms are great for decomposing food scraps, and may be a novel idea for primary school children
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WHY? Over a third of our bin is made up of organic content – all food scraps, potato peels etc end of in landfills whilst taking up vast amounts of the landfill space and slowly decomposes, emits methane gas into our already overheating atmosphere and leaching acid into the soil
Intention: To educate children the importance of composting; paper vegetable and food scraps, bread, eggshells etc
- Perhaps a warm farm for kids to be involved with the decomposing process


- E – waste; perhaps placed in electronic shops
- Old computers, keyboards, dishwashers, refrigerators, white goods
Intention: Reuse and recycling prevents electronic items from reaching landfills and leaching these chemicals into the Earth
- The average lifespan of computers in developed countries has dropped from six years in 1997 to just two years in 2005

- LIGHTS OFF…office buildings to switch off lights at night time – sensor or timer implemented in office systems to turn off lighting systems at a certain time

- Eg: at a 9 – 5 office; automatically turn off at 6pm, however for those doing overtime, have a separate section for their own lighting purposes

WHY? In Europe, if they were to at least switch from incandescent lights to fluorescent, they would be able to close down 25 medium sized power plants, therefore use – they have been banning the use of these light bulbs

- MX paper recycling bins –
Recycling bins for MX papers, or perhaps a bin design that can comprise of an outlet where readers can re-use the papers by re-reading them from they’re journey home from work / school
WHY? As an observation on public transport, I have noticed the MX papers in the regular bin around 5 -6pm, or perhaps scattered around the train carriage in a mess



- “Green Dot” programme
- Used in Germany
Marking EVERYTHING that needs and should be recycled with a green dot, or some sort of marking to symbolize to the importance of recycling and re-using material


- solar powered Christmas lights

- solar powered traffic lights / battery operated

- solar powered street lights