etwinnig project LET'S ACT

1. Waste/trash management
For the etwinning project “Let’s Act”
Students from Ipsonas 1
Primary School
Styliana Ioannou
Elias Agisilaou
Andriana Vasiliadi
Sofia Gregoriou
Ignatios Nicolaou
Stylianos Nicolaou
Panos Lefkaritis
Petros Petsas

3. What Is Environmental Waste Management?
Press the link below and watch Panos’ presentation about the environmental
waste management
Panos presentation

4. What Is Environmental Waste Management?
Waste management is the actions required to manage waste from its inception its
disposal. This includes the collection, transport,treatment and disposal of waste.
Its purpose is to provide hygienic, efficient and economic solid waste storage,
collection, transportation and treatment or disposal of waste without polluting the
atmosphere, soil or water system. The categories include source reduction and
reuse, animal feeding, recycling, composting, fermentation, landfills, and land
application.

5. Why Is Environmental Waste Management Important?
Disposing of waste has huge
environmental impacts and can cause
serious problems.
Waste management reduces the effect
of waste on the environment, health. It
can also help reuse or recycle
resources such as paper cans, glass,
aluminium.

6. How big is the problem in Cyprus?
The Cyprot policy on waste management is
based mainly on waste hierarchy
(prevention, reuse, recyling, recovery,
disposal) and the correct environment
handling. The ultimate aim is to protect the
environmental and human health.

7. What practice can we adapt to manage our waste?
To stop all these we can manage our waste by
recycling and reusing. We can recycle paper,
plastic, clothes we no longer need, glass and
aluminioum. As a result, our rubbish is
reduced. We can also reuse old CD’s and
make funky coasters for drinks or use plastic
bottles as pots for the garden. (Styliana)

8. Suggestions for measures:
• increase in recycled materials
•expanding the coverage of the packaging recovery system nationwide
•increase the collection points of recyclable materials that are not
collected from homes (eg glass, batteries)
•increase recycling points in public places
•more information on existing recyclable materials and available collection
points
• implementation of the "pay as I dispose" system, which will cover the
cost of waste collection for those who do not recycle

9. Photogallery about the problem in Cyprus

10. What practices will you recommend?
- People could organise ‘A walk to clean the forest’
- It’s important to use things many times, not once, eg. plastic bottles, plastic
bags,
- Segregation of waste at home
- When we see rubbish, eg. a piece of paper on the street, we can pick it up
and put in the bin
Students from Primary School in Liszyno

11. What practices will you recommend?
Here our partner schools can write ideas. Don’t forget to write your name and
school.