LTT C2-Reusing-Third Day

 "Save Environment with 3R's" 

2021-1-RO01-KA 210-SCH-000032297 

Learning, Teaching, Training Activity 3

-Reusing (The second step of sustainability)

Third day-4th October 2022

The third day started with the activity "Ways of reuse at school and at home" in which the students appealed to their own experience and talked about the ways in which they reuse at school and at home. They worked in 4 mixed teams and created 4 acrostics about "reuse".

After that, the students presented the results of the questionnaire applied before the mobility. 

Thus, the students noticed that in Turkey 66% of the respondents spend in a week between 1 and 5 euros on packaging, plastic bags and disposable materials; in Romania 58%, in Latvia 71%; in Turkey over 55% reuse plastic bags and bottles quite often, in Romania 44% always reuse, in Latvia 66%; in Turkey over 66% sometimes use reusable materials, in Ro 32%, in Latvia over 59%; in Turkey, 66% of their community encourages reuse, in Romania 52%, in Latvia 50%; in Turkey the most reused are clothes, in Romania and Latvia plastic; in Turkey most of the time the school uses water filters, in Romania water filters are not used, in Latvia there are filters; in Turkey students rarely use reusable pens, in Romania over half of students use disposable pens, 61% of Latvian students use disposable pens; in Turkey 55% of the classes have a scrap paper tray, in Romania only 32%, and in Latvia 60% of the classes do not, and charity activities are organized in all the partner schools.

The activity was evaluated by applying a rebus with terms about reuse.

Then, the participants traveled to Sigulda to meet with the environmental specialist of the Environmental Management Department of the Sigulda municipality, Mrs. Maia Kovacs. The lady spoke about "The most important waste management sites in Sigulda". We moved around the city and saw the most important waste collection points in the municipality. The lady explained to us what is Latvia's policy regarding the selective collection of garbage. The participants had the opportunity to see that these management policies are not much different from those in Romania and Turkey. The students were curious about how such collection points work, asking relevant questions about the circuit of different types of waste. Several public recycling and reuse sites in Sigulda and composting fields were visited.

They most liked the visit to the environmental management company "Jumis", which has been in the industry since 1947 and offers household waste, construction debris and bulky waste management, sorted waste management, as well as various seasonal services.