1. How can we reduce, reuse and recycle?

2. Picture dpa Garbage in China On Yangtsekiang, there is a lot of garbage. This river is covered by a 50’000 squaremeters large and 60 cm high layer of garbage.

3. Electronic waste in Ghana This waste comes illegaly from Europe. Picture CA Computer Recycling

4. Great Pacific Garbage Patch An other hot spot of pollution is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There, the sea is covered by plastic. Plastic lasts for more than 450 years. Every year 6’000’000 tons more are thrown into the sea worldwide. Source Wikipedia, marynelittergyre

5. This patch is as large as Canada Source, Youtube

6. We need to reduce, reuse and recycle! A good way to reduce garbage: Let’s use shopping bags!

7. How can we create new shopping bags out of recycled packing materials?

8. We cut plastic bags into ribbons

10. We glue the ribbons one to the other with the heat of an iron

12. Then we put the ribbon around the fly-shuttle

13. More fly-shuttles are ready

14. We weave it on a loom

20. Another idea to create a shopping bag…

21. …using milk packs

22. We cut them into ribbons

24. After glueing one ribbon to the other with the heat of an iron, we start to bind them to a shopping bag

27. Here they are, our sustainable shopping bags

29. Don’t forget your shopping bag at home when you go shopping.

30. You can avoid plastic bags and help reduce garbage.