ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT OF OUR SCHOOL LORENZO DA PONTE • ELECTRIC ENERGY • HEATING • TRANSPORT • PAPER • WATER • WASTE • Comenius project “Let’s know, let’s love, let’s protect our environment”
Aug 07, 2015
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT OF OUR SCHOOL LORENZO DA PONTE
• ELECTRIC ENERGY• HEATING• TRANSPORT • PAPER• WATER• WASTE
• Comenius project “Let’s know, let’s love, let’s protect our environment”
We split into four different groups:
1. Transports2. Heating3. Electricity 4. Paper consumption
We have prepared a questionnaire and
chosen six classes, the sample classes .
•THE QUESTIONNAIRE:• 1. Which means of transport do you use to come to school?• and with what means of transport do you return? • outward: □by car □ by bus □ walking □by bike• come back : □by car □by bus □walking □by bike
• 2. How far is your home from school?
• 3. If you come by car, are there any students who• come with you? and the return?
Which means do you use to come to school?Total answers 110
By car on foot By bus By bike TOTAL
outward 55 19 26 10 110
Come back 49 25 26 10 110
Total displacement 104 44 52 20 220
percentages 47% 20% 24% 9% 100%
BY CAR WALKING BY BUS BY BIKE0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Series1
• Students at School: 374• Using car: 47% (175 students)
• Using bus: 24% ( 90 students)
• Average distance covered: 7 km (return)
For a total of :
371000 km in a school year (200 days)
Summary
If you come by car, are there any students who come with you?
31% of the students share the car with a mate
How far is your home from school? Of the 52 children who come to school by car 70% live at
a distance equal to or less than 2 km from the school
< 2 km > 2 kmdistance from school distance from school
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Students using the car for coming to school
122
53
THE HEATING We interviewed Luigi, our caretaker and we found out that the fuel with which we heat
the school is methane
Alberto, Andrea, Eros, Federico e Yaro
1 How many would be willing to lowerof a degree the temperature?
2 How many people believe in class it is too hot?
3 How many students report that they keep the windows flapped for many hours?
often always never total
75 12 24 111
68% 11% 22% 100%
often always never total
75
12 24
111
68%
11%22%
100%
Temperature perception
How many people believe in class it is too hot?
limelight wide open antonyms total
86
214
111
77%
19%4%
100%Time in which windows are open
limelight wide open Don’t know total
86 21 4 111
77% 19% 4% 100%
How many students report that they keep the windows flapped for many hours?
How many would be willing to lowerof a degree the temperature?
Yes No Don't know Total
87 17 7 111
78% 15% 6% 100%
Yes No Don't know Total
87
17 7
111
78%
15%6%
100%
FOOLSCAP
320 Kg
PAPER FOR THE HYGIENE
238 kg
A ream weighs 2 Kg A roll weighs 1,2 kg A roll weighs 60 g
Interviewing Mrs. Loretta we verified that in one day about two reams of paper are used, equivalent to 1000 sheets, without considering the secretariat and the presidency.
1- In 2014 our school consumed 53537 kwh (date reported by Vittorio Veneto’s town hall)
We checked and we found that in every class there are 8 neon tubes ( each neon has 58 watt)
if in a classroom the light was turned on for 5 hours, it would consume : in 1 day = 2,32 kwh ( 58 watt x 8 neon tubes x 5 : 1000= 2 ,32 kwh) 1 month = 58 kwh ( 2,32kwh x 25 = 58 kwh)
1 classroom in a year = 464 kwh
5- In our school there are 380 neon tubes for a consumption of 110 kwh in a day (in five hours but the school closes at 18:00)
The 122 students, who live at less than 2 km from the school, could come to school
walking or by bike
We found out that in our institute we only use non-recycled paper, for which production there is a bigger emission of CO2 than for the recycled paper.
Decreasing the heater’s temperature of 1 ° Celsius our consumption would
decrease of 7%,which is above 2012 cubic meters of
methane in a school year
We saw that in the aisles the lights are always on, therefore we have to find a
solution to save energy .
We can do a lot to reduce the emission of co2.
1)If we switched off half the lights that are in corridors we would save 4060 KWh per year.
2)If we switched off the light in the classrooms during the break we would save 23,2 KWh for each classroom.