 Fair Trade  The European Union  Nationalities in our School  Litter & Waste

 Nations must unite to make the world right  (Cillian O Corcora 4 th)  Fair Trade is how friends are made  (Jack Mc Grath 4 th )  Be a Green Clean Recycling Machine  (Tadhg Foley 4 th)

 ‘Before you finish eating your breakfast in the morning you have depended on half the world’

 There are 27 memeber countries in the EU.  Ireland currently holds the presidency.  The EU was set up after the 2 nd world war to promote peace and trade.

Ireland  Poland  Russia   U.K.  China  Latvia

If your country is not included please let us know  U.S.A.  Nigeria  Congo  Lithuania  Vietnam  Bangladesh  Romania  Slovakia

Open Night Display 2012  Every year we have a Green School Display at open night

 ‘If we don’t change direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.’

 Plastic bottles can be recycled into  new bottles  fleece jumpers  car mats

 Recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy required to produce new aluminium from raw materials.  Recycling 1 plastic bottle will save enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 3 hours.

 You pay less to have your recycling bin collected than for you waste bin collection

 Waste dumped in landfill instead of recycling produces methane which contributes to Global Warming.  Recycling also saves energy.

 In 2009 Ireland was ranked 2 nd in Europe for greenhouse gas emission per head.  Greenhouse gasses contribute to climate change.  Climate change leads to an increase in floods hurricanes and drought.  The developed world is mainly responsible for climate change  Climate change hits the poorer countries hardest.

 Wiser Group Ltd own their own Recycling Recovery Facility in Co. Tipperary.  Here materials are sorted into Cardboard,Aluminium,Steel,Plastic & Paper.  These are made into 1 tonne bales and shipped to be reused abroad.  Electricity is being generated from the general waste collected.

 Wood ……………………91%  Aluminium ……………32%  Textiles …………………45%  Plastics …………………13%  Glass ……………………..4%  Paper/Cardboard ….less than 1%  Electrical Waste….…less than 1%

 Is this a good enough excuse considering how much waste we generate ?  Why not take action and write to a politician about this

 He told us that  “European directive has no power to legislate over what goes on outside the EU…….  …The waste directive however encourages the use of local waste management where possible”

 By 2008, Irish people were ranked 4th in Europe for recycling household electrical waste..

 Electronic waste can pollute soil and drinking water.  It accounts for 70% of the overall toxic waste found in landfills.  Virtually every household electrical item can be recycled.  In Ireland you can no longer dispose of IT equipment in a bin, skip or waste tip.

 Since 2008 all shops that sell batteries must take back your waste batteries for recycling.  Car Batteries can be brought back to your local garage.

 Lots of electronic waste is exported to other countries. Some of this is done illegally.  Poor people in these countries put their health at risk, during the dismantling process.  Once dismantled the unrecyclable parts often end up thrown in toxic piles in these countries.  New EU directives will force us to take more responsibility for what becomes of the waste we ship abroad.

 Raphael is a 10 year old boy living in Ghana.  His hands are cut from collecting sharp copper wire from electrical waste at a dump.  Fires are lit to burn off plastic.  He gets headaches from the fumes.  The river nearby is polluted from the dump.

 Recycling is good but it is better not to create electrical waste in the first place  Before you upgrade your phone or TV ask yourself if you really need to.  Can you give it to someone else who would use it?

 In India people have greater access to mobile phones than to toilets.

 13 trees  31,ooo litres of water  Results in 75% less air pollution

 The average Irish family consumes around 500 glass bottles a year  Glass is very easy to recycle.  Recycling 1 tonne of glass saves over 300kgs of Carbon Dioxide emissions.

 Plastic packaging from food often ends up in dumped in landfill. This pollutes and is harmful to wild life.  Plastic and glass can take up to 1000 years to break down.  Next time you go shopping see if you can buy unpackaged fruit and veg.  By 2010 in Ireland 74% of our packaging waste was being recycled.

 In 2010 Ireland produced the 4 th highest level of waste per head in Europe. Latvia had the lowest.  The average Irish household produces 1 tonne of waste per year.  That’s the equivalent to the weight of about 20 children  Waste that goes to dumps produces methane which leads to global warming.  Recycle or compost when you can.  2/3 of our waste can be diverted from landfill.

Ice cream..Yum!

Speech speech!And the band played..