Frej, Swedish Team. My Week.

 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. 
As always I am cycling to work instead of taking the bus.

Tuesday 
Today I went to my job. In the afternoon I harvested elderflowers to make syrup because I want to make use of the wild growing plants

Wednesday 
Today I cycled to my summer job again, and cycled home and ate vegetarian dinner. And in the evening I cycled to my kayak training. 

Thursday 
Today I (yeah you guessed right) cycled to my summer job, cycled home and ate a vegetarian dinner. And then I picked red currants to make a delicious crumble pie.

Friday 
Today I cycled to my summer job, cycled home and made a pie from the red currants and drank my sirup with my family.

Linus, Swedish team. Three things I did at my country house.

 1. I threw away all rotten and old food in a compost so it can break down into dirt.

2. In the evenings I pull out any cable that I know is taking electricity when I’m not using it.

3. I went to a recycling station to sort out all things and materials I’m not using anymore so they can be produced into something new.

Nova, Swedish team

 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!

Sara,Portuguese Team

 Hello everyone!

In my house, when we happen to take wrong photocopies, instead of throwing them in the trash, we, for example, use them for drafts.

Bye bye! 

Sara 

 Hiii.

Instead of buying detergent packets we can buy a bar of soap to wash the dishes, it's much more ecological.

 Hiii.

So, I had some empty shampoos so I thought of a way to use them. Make small holes in them, put some soil in them and plant flowers. You can also paint the shampoo box to make it prettier.

 Hello.

Now that it is summer and many people go to the beach and the river, we should be careful with rubbish. Sometimes, as the rubbish bins are far away, people don't want to go there and throw their rubbish on the ground, which is very wrong. We must keep our rubbish and then throw it in the bins 

Portuguese Team

 Today when i went to the beach, instead of spending money on a plastic bottle, i brought my own bottle from home.

Sara,Portuguese Team

 Hello everyone! In my house, when we have leftover candles, we melt the leftovers and form new candles.

Bye!

Sara

 Today, instead of throwing a t-shirt away i sewed it. It is a way to reduce the production of new clothes, energy expenditure and chemical products. This way we can improve the planet!

Portuguese Team

 Hello everyone! 

In my house we reuse the paper bags that we bring the bread in. My mum , sometimes when she makes fried things she uses those bags to absorb the oil that the food pours out, instead of using the napkins she uses the bag. It's a way of reusing those bags. Another way to reuse bags, which is the one we use most in my house, is to use them to put rubbish in, for example, instead of using small plastic bags we use paper ones.

Bye!! 

Sara,Portugal

 

Hello everyone!

 In my house, when I need to use straws, I usually use reusable metal ones, it's a way to reduce waste, although I rarely use straws because I usually buy drinks in big bottles which I then serve in a glass. When the bottles are plastic, I sometimes reuse them, but most of the time, I just put them in the Ecopoint. 

Here's a photo of the straws I use.

Bye!!

Sara 

Maria,Portugal

 "I needed a hair brush, so instead of buying a plastic one i bought a bamboo one. "

Maria

Portuguese Team

 "Hello everyone.

With this hot weather, there are many fires, and because of this many trees die. We could replant trees. A few years ago I went with my school to the mountain to plant oak trees, to help reforest."

7th August Giorgia’s activity 3 – Italian team

 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 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!