Are we green? Recycling

Are we green?

Recycling

““SIERRA MINERA” SIERRA MINERA” Secondary SchoolSecondary School

We live in La Unión in the We live in La Unión in the southeast of Spainsoutheast of Spain

Nowadays the main Nowadays the main economic activity is tourismeconomic activity is tourism

Until 1990 in La Unión the Until 1990 in La Unión the most important activity was most important activity was

the mining industrythe mining industry

Our introduction

Activities

Recycling campaign

Recycling campaign schedule:

1. We designed a flier to explain how to recycle

2. We made recycled pins with bottle caps to award students who recycled

Recycling campaign schedule:

3. We organized groups to give information about how to recycle

Recycling campaign schedule:

4. Groups collected recycled materials during the break

Recycling campaign schedule:

Reuse Project

One day in biology classI am going to do

the best presentation

picture for this lesson

Recycled paper

Oh well…

Oh, no! I smudged the picture

But it’s only one piece of

paper, nothing bad will happen.

Don’t throw it away you can reuse

it.

Well, what can we do about it?

If everybody thought the

same, it would be

disastrous.

We could

recycle the

paper.

It will be a good idea to collect all the

used paper we can find.

Teacher, could we

make recycled paper?

On our way to the lab

Of course! I’ll show you how to

make it! Let’s go to the laboratory.

In the labThese are the materials we used:

A Large recipientA small sieve and some large spoonsSieves

A BlenderUsed paper

Cloths

Procedure First we filled the recipient half-full with water

Then we tore the paper and put it in the recipient with water

After that we blended all the paper

Next we made sure there were no big pieces of paper

Later we put the paper-bits on the square sieve and squeezed the water out with a spoonFinally we put the paper on the cloth, left it to dry and waited…

And now that we have

finished, what can we do with our

recycled paper?

We could make a photo

album out of it…

Excellent!

“E.J.E.” Project

We also reused materials to produce new things

“E.J.E.” Project We collected plastic tops which were sold to a recycling company and profits were given to help sick children

Recycled Art

We made art with paper: We created Paul

We did a survey to figure out the students´recycling habits.

Recycling survey

These are the results

The most recycled materials are plastic and batteries.

25% of the students collaborate on sorting out their household wastes.

Most of the students are able to identify different recycling bins and know how to recycle.

35 % of the students become aware of the importance of recycling to help the environment.

30 % of the students think they can improve recycling at school using recycled paper.

Most of the voters don’t know the difference between reusing, recycling and reducing.

Finally…

A piece of recycling advice!