In the school environment, waste management requires a serious attention. With the composition of most of the residents are children [the learners] do not rule out the management was not optimal. But also can be used as a medium of learning for its students. One of the parameters of a good school is environmentally sound.
Organic waste can be processed into compost. The process is easy and simple. Elementary school age children can work on their own until high school. With wet waste composting at school can be a medium of learning for students. At least the children will learn about the Natural Sciences. Children will also learn to appreciate the environment. They will learn how to waste it can be beneficial to humans not only as something dirty and disgusting. The resulting compost can be used to fertilize plants that exist or as a mixture of planting medium in pots.
Waste paper generated a lot of that type HVS. This paper types among scavengers have the highest prices. Not to mention cardboard, paper food wrappers and other paper types. Especially for waste paper, can do two things to manage.
- The first is recycling as its own management. Waste paper can be recycled fairly easily. Scrap paper cut into small pieces and soaked in water. The next process is the blender to turn into pulp. This is where creativity is needed. Pulp can be used as recycled paper or can be used as the basis of creativity, such masks pigora paper or forms.
- The second form of management is sorting system for sale. HVS manifold paper separated from other types such as newspaper, cardboard and kerdus. Waste paper that has been sorted earlier sold to scavengers. Scavengers will periodically come to the school to pick up the paper.
1. Understand the types of trash
Each type has a different age bins in nature. Plastic trash for example, can only be described as the next 80-100 years.
2. Reduce plastic bag
Use plastic bags as needed. Use also reusable bag (shopping bag that can be used again) when you go shopping. If going to the supermarket can be inserted in a bag, use a basket as ancient even better. Each person spends 170 plastic bags per year. Though it took 12 million barrels of oil and 14 million trees a year to manufacture plastic.
3. Save paper
Use the paper as necessary to take advantage of both sides. "If the replay, use the paper back and forth. Remember these facts, one ream of paper (500 sheets) equals 1 tree trunk. Estimated 2.75 billion trees each year is used to produce paper. Sayagnya How trees were felled, when the world is running out, getting hotter, more arid.
4. Save water.
100 percent of available water, 97 percent of which is sea water. Only 3 percent of fresh water that it was not entirely be consumed.
With all four of the above waste management will be realized slightly helped. Effect could be extraordinarily great, that help decrease carbon emissions that cause global warming.