The document discusses waste management and recycling. It explains the three R's of waste management: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Various types of waste are described like urban solid waste, sanitary waste, industrial waste, and radioactive waste. Specific examples of recycling at a school are provided, such as recycling paper, egg cartons, batteries, mobile phones, and adapting teaching to use recycled materials.

1. WASTE MANAGEMENT

2. The poster
• Firstly the picture is a
project of VISUAL
THINKING.
• That means to try to
connect our ideas with
simple images. The idea
is to link each concept to
an idea to make easier
its memorization

3. • What we first see in the man
with the question mark in the
head which wonders about
waste management. Then the
three main R´s about the waste
management appear: Reuse,
Reduce and Recycle.

4. Secondly, we consider what
things can be reused.
We think about recycling
plastic which is written on a
wall. The wall, is built with
bricks and bricks are what we
have to recycle.
There is a piece of paper
underneath with some of the
advantages of using paper.
 Besides, we see the origin of
paper from the tree to the
person who uses it, and there
is a recycling waste bin to use
it again.

5. Thirdly, we can see the word
“glass” with a wavy shape. This
represents that water flows.
With the shape of a bottle, we
have the different process of
recycling glass.

6. • Each of the colours of the
circles represents the colour of
the place where we should
deposit our waste to be
recycled.
• This is the end of the
explanation of this poster,
elaborated by the IES Newton
Salas about what happens in
Spain and how we present it
for a Comenius European
project.

7. WASTE MANAGEMENTReducing waste
Waste is constantly being reused and does not create waste. “THE WASTE OF
SOME IS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY OTHERS”
When this balance is broken, a large amount of waste is generated, and it is not
possible to integrate it in a natural way, the present problem of waste arises,
above all in the developed countries.

From the 20th
century, a “USE AND THROW” culture has been established, which
foments consumption and increases the amount of waste.
Currently the culture of the R’S is being introduced: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

8. It is based on the guidelines set by the European
Union:
Increasing recycling and reuse.
Reducing waste production.
Getting rid of the waste that can not be
recovered in a safe way.
Waste management in Spain

9. Types of containers according to waste
Recycling

10. Disposal
Waste is eliminated when it can no longer be reused to build other
things.
There are several methods to eliminate them: with landfillS,
incineration, storing radioactive waste and with the removal of
hazardous medical waste.

11. TYPES OF WASTE
URBAN SOLID WASTE
It is generated by developed activities in the urban nucleus or influential
areas, that is to say, in private addresses, commerce, offices and services.
There are different types:
Domestic waste: generated by private addresses, resulting from domestic activity
Commercial waste: generated by offices, training centres, etc
Construction waste: generated by demolitions and the restoration or repairs of
houses

12. Waste management
Sanitary waste
Sanitary waste generate a series of waste of
very particular characteristics: sanitary
infectious residues, biological and
anatomical remains, blood, alive vaccines,
and the whole material that has been in
touch with these substances, including
needles and sharp and cutting material.
Undoubtedly this category of residues needs
a specific management to avoid the danger
of pollution of the environment, and the
contagion of infectious diseases that
represent a risk for the people´s health.

13. Industrial waste
It is any element, substance or obtained object like proved
from an industrial process
Great quantity of these industrial residues can be re-used and
recycled, but the problem of this is that the technologies that
they must be used are too much costly
They can be two types: inert or dangerous

14. Radioactive waste
It includes any type of material that
contains radionuclides or that it is
polluted by them, in proportions superior
to the limits fixed by the regulatory
authority.
 They may not be foreseen to use or to be
useful. Radioactive waste is the material
that issues radioactivity.

15. WASTE MANAGEMENT
IN OUR SCHOOL

16. WE RECYCLE PAPER
• In our classes, there is a separate waste bin
for rubbish and a different one for paper. That
paper is recycled daily in our school.

17. WE RECYCLE CARTONS OF EGGS
• Cartons of eggs are recycled because we use
them to improve the sound of the music
classes. We paint them in different colours
and they are sprayed with a fire retardant and
hanged on the walls.

18. WE DEPOSIT USED BATTERIES
• We can deposit
used batteries in
a special
container just
outside the school

19. Learning to use recycled materials
• Teachers adapt their
teaching program to
recycle in class using
objects such as plastic
bottle caps, bricks,
shower gel plastic
bottles etc.

20. WERECYCLE MOBILE PHONES
By recycling
mobile phones in
our school, We
help an NGO that
provides help to
people in need as
well as supporting
the investigation of
the the San
Filippo Syndrome
in children.