RECYCLED

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

How can we prevent climate change by recycling these products?

Plastics: If you don't reuse plastic it would be bad since plastic does not biodegrade. Then it would be left in the landfill which will cause methane and once methane is released into the air it causes more air pollution. 

Cycling or walking: If you walk and or ride a bike you lessen driving a car since cars can cause Carbon Dioxide.

Paper: If we reuse paper it will lessen the need for cutting down more trees.

Steel: If you don't reuse steel it will be the normally be labelled as garbage and will be buried under a landfill. Or we will burn them and once we burn it cause more pollution on land and air.

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?

Zero waste is one of the quickest and affordable ways a community immediately reduces the impact on climate change.
What can we do on the planet?

1.  Repair 
2.  Reduce
3.  Reuse 
4.  Recycle

What do we need to recycle?

Put biodegradable materials into the green waste bin so we can help stabilise the soil. Also Plastic, steel, and the paper.

What does recycling do?

We can shut down 20% of the coal factories which can be done immediately and it can prevent pollution.

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

90,000

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Soil can decrease carbon dioxide but also since soil can help grow plants it is also good since plants eat carbon dioxide since that is the source to create there leaves and stems.

What do we need to do?

1. Make Changes
2. Have Zero waste

What is a carbon footprint?

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

Carbon footprint goals:

1. Walk to school and less driving to school

2. Take faster showers

3.during the day use the sunlight and not use the electricity

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1. Turn off your lights when your not using it or your going out.  
2.   Turn off you water when your brushing your teeth or soaping your hands.
3.   Unplug unused electronics like charger etc.
4.  Use cold water when your going to use washing machine.

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

Papers-  If we recycled a paper it can be made out of a Cardboard,magazines, paper towels, news paper, and a napkins. If we don't recycled paper we wouldn't have something to write on and don't have a news paper to read and I that the paper will be bad for the oceans because if it wasn't recycle the paper will be pile up in the ocean.

Leaves - Well leaves provide us foods and air to help the plants to grow, also of know that leaves breath in carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen. Leaves can use through the photosynthesis which green plants use sunlight because sunlight is used to form foods from carbon dioxide and water, also the photosynthesis help the leaves to be green.

Milk Carton - Milk carton are also made of from paperboard and it was coated polyethylene, they used paperboard because it was stronger but it was non- recycle.Milk carton can use for fun because you create something form it because a lot of people or kids use it as crafting they used the carton of the milk and they build house miniature for birds,dolls, or Lego figures.Also Milk carton has a great small size for growing small plants.

Glass Bottles - Glass is 100%  recyclable and it can be recycled without losing quality and the purity of the glass, also heating glass in the microwave is more safer that heating plastic because plastic can be melted because of the temperature so that's why a lot of people like glass than using plastic because you can save more money. Most of the people use glass bottle as D.I.Y projects because they can build painted flower vase, bottle tree or Tiki torch bottle,etc..

Orange Peels - Orange peel can help to clean dirty water also orange peel add nutrients and nitrogen to a plants as they decompose , also that orange peel has more fiber than the real fruit inside. There a lot of thing that orange peel can do like orange peel can be used to start a fire, etc. In the compost piles the orange peel can bring in phosphorus, nitrogen and the potassium ( Is a mineral ), and they say that it was a good idea to break your peel down in the a small pieces so the peel will compost faster and faster but if you peel into a big piece they can take a lot of time to compost. 

You need to answer three questions.

Name: 

• Milk carton 
•     Orange Peel 
•     Leaves
•     Glass Bottles 
•     Paper 

1. How long do they take to decompose?

• Milk Carton - 5 years 
• Orange Peels - 3-6 months 
• Leaves - 1-3 months 
• Glass Bottles - 500 years or Forever?
• Paper - 2-4 weeks 

 2. What resources/fossil fuel are they made form?

• Milk Carton - In my research they are made of wood pulp but it was mixed with a hardwood and a softwood.
• Orange Peels - Orange Peels are made of Orange seeds
• Leaves - Leaves are made of CO2 which is carbon dioxide.
• Glass Bottles - Glass Bottles are made from sand, ash, soda, and limestone because they use natural gas and heat which they use coal to create the bottle shape. 
• Paper - It was made from Pulp Cotton from the woods in the tree's 

3. How is this resource recycled?

• Milk Carton - When we put the milk Cartoons into the bins it has to be put with the Glass containers, like Steel and etc.Some of the people put this cartoons into the bins of paper because outside of the milk cartoon is paper/ or a card paper but in the inside it was made of aluminium so it's not right to put the milk cartoons into the bins of paper.
• Orange Peels - With the Orange Peels it easy to reuse it because you can add to your compost heat so it can create soil and it can also create different things like Limoncino or Arancino.
• Leaves - Once you started to mowing the lawn you can add the leaves that have fallen to the ground that came from a trees, if you add them you lawn can shared them up to pieces the size of the grass that is clippings. It can cause the leaves to decompose faster and faster.
• Glass Bottles - If you throw the Glass Bottle to the yellow bin the Glass Bottle will be taken to a machine which then separates and discolour all of the bottles inside the yellow bin. Once the Bottle are crushed and melted down the bottle can be reused to create a new glass products like the glass bottle can be turned into a glass jug.
• Paper - When it was recycled it was taken to a machine where it will separate the kinds and grades of paper and once it was done it will wash away any extra writing or and wash any extra ink off with a soapy water. When it was done it creates a slurry which then creates different kinds of paper materials like news paper, card paper,news paper, etc.

4. How does this object contribute to climate change?

• Milk Carton -  Well milk impacts the environment in a various way because dairy cows produce manure which releases a greenhouse gas into our atmosphere.
• Orange Peel - There is nothing for the orange peels that can cause/contribute something to our climate change.
• Leaves - Mostly of the leaves can help to decrease climate change and not contributing but leaves can help because they feed off carbon dioxide and release oxygen to the air.
• Glass Bottles - When glass bottles are created it needs heat to create its form which means it needs fossil fuels which is the coal to heat up a furnace/heating system, and the carbon dioxide can't stay inside. So we let the carbon dioxide go outside into the air which cause air pollution and also our air temperature increase.
• Paper - All of us always need a paper to write on so there are always trees need to be cut because tree's eat the carbon dioxide once the tree's are cut down. It will release its carbon dioxide that contain in the air which will also cause air pollution.