{"id":23298,"date":"2018-10-23T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zemaitijosnp.lt\/?p=23298"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:17:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:17:44","slug":"world-environmental-education-day-materials-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zemaitijosnp.lt\/en\/world-environmental-education-day-materials-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environmental Education Day \u2013 Materials and wastes"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many materials do we come across with in our daily life? Some of them are directly obtained from nature, with light or no treatment at all, as wood, but the greatest part is much more sophisticated and needs the raw material to be manifactured to the complete alteration of its structure, as paper or glass. While few others are completely sinthetic, like plastic materials.
\nWhat those treatments consist of? By now we know which questions we have to wonder.. What are the production processes? Are they polluting? What do they need? Metals? Chemicals? How much water? How much energy? And at the end of their life, where do they end up?
\nWait a minute, one by one\u2026
\nAll of the answers to these questions are included in the so called \u201cProduct Life Cycle\u201d: all products go through different stages \u2013 gathering of raw materials, transformation, development, use, and finally decline \u2013 and each stage has its costs and risks, and individual products differ in how long they remain at any of the life cycle stages. The final price of the product, in other words the price we see at the supermarket, should account for the costs of every stage, included the social and environmental costs. In fact, many products that we commonly use have high environmental costs, in terms of pollution or water used. Just to mention some examples, the cost to reclaim soils or water bodies from chemicals released to paint tissues, or the cost of the erosion and habitat degradation in mining and drilling sites. Even the cost of the disposal of products themselves should be included, since the \u201clay out\u201d of commodities should take into account of how to do it. Should.
\nTalking about disposal, eventually what is being done with those products? For every object, made of any material, at a certain point \u201cthat\u201d moment comes, when it gets too old, worn out, broken or useless. It is thrown in the dustbin and becomes a waste. And what comes after the dustbin? Well, actually nothing that surprising or innovative, indeed a \u201cbigger dustbin\u201d dig in earth and covered on top: a landfill. But wastes remain there for hundreds, even thousand years, especially some materials. Can we consider to dig, bin by bin, all our available lands? Of course we can’t. The alternative is lighting a bonfire, the so called waste-to-energy industry. It is usually implemented by incinerators and it’s a first try of thinking wastes as a valuable, not without high social, environmental and human health costs. Here comes the importance of recycle, a word that didn\u2019t need a name before the XX century. It has been used in the context of waste management just since 1960s. Wastes can really be considered as valuables in the good production industry, especially in the perspective of a growing urbanised society, where the urban waste is multiplying at the same rate the society grows. Whether recyclable household waste is recycled has implications for greenhouse gas emissions, as producing new objects from recovered materials often saves energy, in addition to reducing rapid exploitation of natural resources, minimizing other pollutants, and \u2013 not to be undersized \u2013 creating new jobs.
\nAlso industrial and commercial businesses are starting to get into the new \u201ccircular economy\u201d. At least half of waste is generated outside households, and the sources are myriad: manufacturing of all stripes, construction sites, mines, energy and chemical plants, stores, restaurants, hotels, office buildings, sports and music venues, schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, and more. They are all sites of use and discharge of many kinds of waste, not all but many of them can find a second life. Many companies begin to redirect the linear flows that start with raw materials and end at landfills and incinerators, making the industrial system function more like an ecosystem instead. By reducing material use to begin with and recycling and reusing waste, they can reduce greenhouse emissions from extracting, transporting, and processing raw materials. And because the global economy currently uses far more of these materials far more quickly than the Earth can regenerate, such practices address parallel challenges of resource scarcity.
\nEvery kind of waste needs to be treated differently, in order to become a new commodity \u2013 as for papers or plastic bottle \u2013 or be used in other production or building processes \u2013 as for some kind of glass and plastic materials reused in the production of street asphalt \u2013 and that\u2019s the reason why it\u2019s fundamental to sort properly every material and send it to the concerning recycling process. With particular reference to special wastes, whose integral materials are rare or dangerous in nature, as batteries (containing lead), light bulbs (containing mercury), e-waste (containing several metals and minerals that can be even reused to produce other electronic items), and many others.
\nA little daily gesture for everyone of us means a lot for the environment… so, for us again!<\/p>\n

Game about materials:
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Game about wastes:<\/p>\n

Enjoy our quiz about wastes and recycle on Kahoot. What to do to play:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Download the free app \u201cKahoot!\u201d on your smartphone or connect to the website <\/strong>www.kahoot.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
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  3. Enter the PIN 069553 or use the link <\/strong>https:\/\/kahoot.it\/challenge\/069553<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Start the challenge!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From October 14th to 26th, every day you\u2019ll find here, and on our Facebook and Instagram pages, funny quizzes and games online to know more about environmental issues. You can play everywhere and whenever you want. Follow the anniversary!<\/em><\/p>\n

    Elisa, EVS volunteer form Erasmus+
    \n(data from Drawdawn, Penguin Books, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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