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Project- Based Learning

‘How to make our school more sustainable’What the government and companies do about recycling

By: Sophia Stylianou, Panayiota Athanasiou, Andreas Zachariou

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Theodosia Palourti, Petros Kousis, Giannis Siamptanis

Green-Dot

Recycling factories in Latsia and Limassol

Newest recycling factory:

Xiti

in Koshi (mainly for glass)When people don’t separate recycling objects well, people working in the factories separate themRecycling of paper when it’s available in big amounts (mainly in schools)

How do we classify the materials to be recycledCartons (from medicines, milk etc.), newspapers, office papers.

Glass bottles (soft drinks, alcoholic drinks etc.)Transparent bottles and coloured plastic type PET (mineral water, soft drinks, milk, etc.)Plastic

containers IDPE and PE (cleaners,

shampoo,

etc.)CansA

luminium cans (juices, energy drinks etc.)

Where do the packages go after their collectionThe packages that are collected on their own (glass) go directly to the factories for recycling.

The packages that are collected in groups (paper) go to special factories for sorting where they are separated in to smaller categories of each material (aluminum, tetrapak). After this material are sorted they are also send to recycling factories in Cyprus or abroad.

With a tone of recycled glass we save energy equal to 135L of petrolBy recycling a tone of paper we save the lives of 17 trees We clean the environment from plastic since plastic takes 450 years to be decomposed in nature

What are we achieving by recycling?

Ways of informing people about recycleAll the companies inform people about recycling in the following ways:

LeafletsCampaignsEventsThrough the internetAdvertisements in TV

The official website

74%

63%

Survey about recycling in our school

83%

A.F.I.S

Company of recycling batteries

It’s a non-profit company

Goal:

inform people about the

recycling of batteries; make them recycle them.Every type of battery can be recycled with Afis, except of those on cars.Company’s aim: recycle the 25% of batteries

Until 2016 Afis wants 45% of the batteries to be recycled.Batteries release toxic chemicals when they melt, so when

Afis recycles it helps the environment

Municipality of

Larnaca

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ollaborates with Green Dot and

AfisPays these organizations Bins in places with a lot of people (e.g. supermarkets)

7% of people in Larnaca recycleMore recycling in restaurants (recycle glass)Campaigns with Green-Dot at schools (inform students)

Campaign at Evropis Square to recycle clothesGreen-Dot gets litter that will be recycled once a weekGoal: Collect the cuttings & increase the areas with grass; inform people about recycling – make the 35% of the population to recycle.

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unicipality of

Aradippou

Pay

Xitis

(Factory) to collect the recycling objects

Collaborate with Green-DotAreas that people can recycle in Dimos Aradippou: Aradippou

Krasa AreaDromolaxiaEasier to recycle now than 5 years agoCampaigns – mainly for glass recycling

Informative leaflets given at schools of the area People respond: Better than they expected

Xiti

(Biggest Recycling Factory)

Collaborates with Green-Dot

Machines separate recycling objects

20.000 tones expected to be recycled from Larnaca and parts of Famagusta (every year)

12.000 tones arrive from these area104.000 tones being recycled in Cyprus (every year).

Opinion of people working in the factory:Not big amounts of litter collected to be recycledLow response from people - disappointing

Oroklini

Doesn’t collaborate with any recycling company People from

Xiti

collect the litter directly from the village

It benefits them economically – would pay more money if they collaborated with Green-Dot

Litter in Cyprus47.11%: Litter (that aren’t recycled)7.97%: Paper

5.25%: PMD1.44%: Metals0.61%: Glass0.41%: Aluminium