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Monday
Today a new group of kids started their summer camp where I am working as a leader. I will teach them how to sail a boat without an engine.1. I threw away all rotten and old food in a compost so it can break down into dirt.
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Hi!
I love sowing, so I like to reuse old pieces of fabric. For example, here I made a tote bag out of a sheet that was to small for any of our beds. We can also use this for shopping instead of plastic bags, so it’s a win win!
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Hello everyone!
Today when i went to the beach, instead of spending money on a plastic bottle, i brought my own bottle from home.
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Hello everyone! In my house, when we have leftover candles, we melt the leftovers and form new candles.
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7th August
Giorgia’s activity 3 – Italian team
Hi everyone, today as I was brushing my teeth I decided not to waste more water than necessary and
turned it off when I didn't need it. We can do this in many situations: while cooking, while having a shower,
or while washing the dishes: all these little actions to save water may look like small things, but on the long
run and with consistency they have a big impact on our water consumption, which is crucial to the wellness
of the earth and ourselves. Giorgia- Italy
6th August
Michelle – Italian team
Good evening!
Today's step to reduce the pollution in our planet is quite a simple one, and
many people already do it without thinking much of it.
I'm talking about
using glass plates while laying the table, and glass bottles to store water
instead of the common plastic ones.
It's a small but
important thing to do, and it's also much more convenient. Glass is way more
healthy and eco-friendly, and can be reused hundreds of times without losing
its purity and quality, whereas plastic has to be thrown away after one single
use.
Plastic takes years
to decompose and this waste some people unconsciously do is very harmful to the
environment. Wash your dishes, people!
5th August
Simone – Italian Team
Many times, like
today, when I am out and about in the town where I live, I look around and see
a lot of plastic bags on the ground. So these days I decided to start replacing
the plastic bags with cloth bags. A few days ago my mum and I went to a store
near our house that sells many items and we bought five cloth bags, so that,
every time we go shopping, we can use these instead of plastic bags to help the
environment. In one year it is estimated that about 5 billion plastic bags are
used, less than 1% is recycled. Plastic
bags are thrown away or reused very few times, without thinking about the
irreparable damage they cause to the ecosystem. Plastic shopping bags take more
than 1,000 years to disappear from the planet. Plastic bags account for 80
percent of the plastic that pollutes seas and water flows. Forecasts say that
at these rates of consumption and without widespread conscious choices, there
will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. In conclusion, cloth bags
should be preferred, which are easy to use, collapsible and space-saving.
4th August
Emanuele – Italian Team
Hi there! These
days I am on holiday with my family in Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, surrounded by
an amazing natural landscape: lakes, trees, mountains, valleys. To move around
and reach far places we thought about an eco-friendly solution, so we decided
to rent an electric car in order not to pollute with fuel, petrol or diesel. Using
electric vehicles implies lots of benefits: cleaner environment, lower running
costs, renewable electricity tariffs, free parking, reduced noise pollution. It
was a totally positive experience. I strongly recommend the use of electric
cars.
3rd August
Rebecca – Italian Team
Hello everyone! In
relation to zero waste challenge, my idea is to propose “zero waste snacks” to
eat in these hot summer days. Common snacks, full of added sugars, are often
bad for our health and their plastic packaging
is also dangerous for the environment. Lots of snacks are sold in single
use plastic bags and contain unealthy ingredients. By making homemade snacks,
or eating km zero products, you will make healthy choices and you will help the
planet. What could be better than that? Personally I recommend to eat an apple,
a peach, some apricots, an orange or a banana as “a zero waste snack”, whan you
are hungry during the day. These snacks are super healthy and totally tasty.
You can get them at the market or at the greengrocer’s. They are in nature’s
perfect packaging!
2nd August
Vincenzo – Italian team
Sometimes drinking tap water isn’t safe, that’s why some households buy hundreds of plastic bottles every
year. Plastic bottles are the number one cause of river pollution in Europe.
My family has always been mindful of these problematics and we have decided to put an end to this useless
waste.
We had to find a solution that wouldn’t jeopardize our health.
That’s why I decided to buy a water purifying pitcher that can purify tap water and reduce plastic
1st August
Michelle – Italian team
Hello everyone! Today, I'd like to share with you something me and my mother do on regular basis to
safeguard the environment.
When we go grocery shopping, we don't use plastic bags to transport our food from the store to our house.
It may look like an insignificant thing to do, but those apparently harmless bags are lethal weapons for
marine creatures that might mistake them for food or get stuck in the plastic while swimming peacefully.
This is why we, instead, use cloth bags! We bring them to the store, buy the food and then take them home
without throwing them out. Sadly, reusing plastic bags is really hard since they tend to break easily. We
suggest you try our method, too!
Levi (Hungary)
Hi every one,
Today I’d like to tell you about the drought in Hungary.
In the last few days, I read a very interesting article. It was about Lake Balaton’s water level. It said, water level evaporates two centimeters every day!!
This was very shocking for me and I realized I have to stop wasting water. I decided to buy a huge barrel to collect rain for watering the garden or anything else. I hope it will be useful for the environment!
I think it will look like this:
Réka teacher (Hungary)
I had a ’story’ today and I have realised that it is connected to our zero waste challenge. So I decided to write it down for you.
A friend of mine left her glasses at my grandparents’ cottage at Lake Balaton when they visited us there. She asked me to send them by post. She could not come back for them, the place was far away, they did not have time to come back for the glasses. But the expensive glasses were important for her. So we agreed that I send them to her by post.
Glasses are very fragile so we were thinking a lot how to put them save into a kind of box. I took a box of peach juice. I cut one of its ends. I cleaned it inside. I put some really old newspapers to be well-lined. After placing the glasses safely into it I closed the box. Finally I wrapped it into a brownish paper originated from my grandparents’ things I found in one of their cupboards. So I could write the address on it legibly.
I think I used up a lot of old things sensibly instead of buying something new at the post.
In June we took part in the 3rd TISZA-LAKE competition, which lasted for 5 days. The competition began with shipbuilding. We built the ships ourselves from recycled materials and waste bottles. The kids were travelling on the built boat, the adults were collecting trash with canoes.
At the beginning of the first day, we didn't have any trash, so we paddled. Then we selected the waste, trampled it and packed it into bags grouped by types.
14 teams started in the race and we collected more than 1,500 bags of garbage, which are approx. 7 tons.
The name of our team was the „Tiszai Jak” and we collected almost 300 bags of garbage, with which we won the competition in front of such strong teams as the Erste bank or the Decathlon team.
Plastic Cup (official information)
The waste pollution on river Tisza is a huge environmental problem! The PLASTIC Cup, this non-profit, non-governmental initiative, was created to eliminate this problem. This environmental action contributes to clean river Tisza by organizing events, waste collection campaigns spanning several months, team-building activities, exhibitions and professional discussions throughout the year.
Our three main goals: conservation of living waters, water sports promotion (kayaking, canoeing) and community building.
The key to the success of Plastic Cup is that it’s able to transform a difficult and dangerous exercise, like collecting trash, into a fun and inspiring team building exercise, into the adventure of a lifetime.
Plastic Cup is the first, and as far as we know only, initiative in the world that looks to fight pollution by using pollutants.
The results in numbers:
4068 DISCOVERED HEAVILY POLLUTED COASTAL AREAS
218 t REMOVED POLLUTANTS FROM THE RIVER TISZA
147 BOATS OF WASTE HAVE BEEN BUILT
This week I was at a folk camp in Transylvania (Romania) with my family and there was a water shortage.
It was hard living with very little water. But we learned how to brush our teeth and have a shower with only a small amount.
It’s hard to imagine that lots of people around the world have to live in conditions like this.
Overall this was very interesting and concerning experience and it left a question in me: Do we really need to use as much water as we use normally?
Hi everyone,
Today this is how I did the zero waste challenge:
I wanted to draw on 100 % recycled paper, so I went to the shop by
bicycle and I bought some paper. It was the same as the normal one and I
did NOT hurt the environment in fact I reused it. I also painted old
clothespins my mother used to hang out wet clothes, and they became happy clips with different colours that I can use to fix memos at my desk.
The next day I reused an old bed sheet to make a dress for a doll as a
present for my cousin. It felt really good because if I don’t use it,
it would have gone to the trash! You should try this zero waste
challenge too.
Julcsi
Balint (Hungary)
Hello everyone,
My name is Bálint Villányi and I'd like to report on my zero waste challenge during my vacation.
If you are at a vacation, you can produce a lot of trash, what you don't want. We would like to avoid so many needless trashes, so we used only glass bottles, and we weren't buy new bottles, if it was possible.
Finally we collected the trash selectively.
Hello. My name is Eylül. I'm a student at İsmail Demir Middle School, class 7/E. I'll present the zero waste project I designed. I wove from old plastic bags with the help from my dad and I designed this project with some wool rope. I made carpets and wool handbags. Hope you liked it. Goodbye.
Simone’s second
expeience
Hi, these days I started using the bicycle to move instead of using the car. Many times I asked my parents to accompany me to nearby places by car, but after I realized that by doing so I would only damage the environment, I started using my bike to move from one place to another. Moving around by bike, you avoid the use of cars, motorcycles, buses, reducing polluting gas emissions. In addition, traffic is streamlined and there are shorter journeys. There are also electric bicycles or even called pedal assisted bikes with which you can move without making a lot of physical effort. Using the bicycle means moving without polluting, respecting the environment. The bicycle provides us with a means to explore the world, without emitting pollutants into the atmosphere. For those who live in urban centers, the bicycle is perfect for moving from one part of the city to another, without risking ending up in traffic. Not only does the bike not emit C02, but it is also a silent vehicle, helping to reduce noise pollution. The bicycle is also good economically: as well as being a very economical vehicle, it does not need much money for maintenance.
Brunella’s experience
Hi everyone! Today
for the zero waste challenge I propose local markets. I decided to buy food in
local markets, as they are good for the environment and local economy. Farmer’s
markets are fantastic places for sustainable shopping. Going there I help local
families and tackle the environmental costs of food production because the food
is locally grown, it is fresh and seasonal. All the products of the local
markets are fresh and locally grown, reducing the need for plastic packaging
and C02 emissions involved in transportation. Local food also means fresher
food. The taste has no equals, moreover local products don’t have to travel
half way across the world to reach your plate. Also, for the environment, it’s
important to eat seasonal products as much as possible.
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