Презентація на тему «Rubbish»

RUBBISH
Is it really a problem?
By Veronika Aleksejenko

What is rubbish?
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What's in your bin?
What's in your bin?
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Is rubbish actually worthless?
Rubbish is the result of our:
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Classification of rubbish
Bio-degradable
(paper, wood, fruits and others)
NON-BIODEGRADABLE
(plastics, bottles, old machines, cans
and others)
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About 80% of all rubbish ends up in landfill sites.
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In 2002
around 50 to 80 million bags
ended up as litter in our environment
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If you burn rubbish, a smoke pollutes the air.
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The answer is:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
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Methods for disposal of rubbish
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Reduce
Before you buy something new, ask yourself if you really need it.
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Reuse
Try to use food containers instead of sandwich bags.
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Recycle
Recycle all your glass, old newspapers, plastic and tins.
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7 Benefits of Recycling
Financial Benefit
Conservation of Resources
Energy savings
Community Building
Jobs creation
Strong economy
Environmental Protection
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Did you know…
If just 1 in 5 Australians stopped using plastic bags, we would save approximately 88,704,000,000 bags!!!
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Recycling one tonne of plastic saves enough energy to run a refrigerator for a month!
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Have you worked out what this is?
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This depicts 1 000 000 cups.
The amount of cups used on airplane flights in America every 6 hours!
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Have you worked this one out yet?
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Depicts 100,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds!
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