Task 4 - João Calheiros

This week the recycling weight was:

Paper - 1,00 kg
Plastic - 0,500 Kg
Glass - 0,250 kg (however in the bin were only 2 bottles)

This week was a normal week so as you can see my family produce more plastic (2 bags) than paper(1 bag) although the paper weight more than plastic. the glass normally are 1 or two bins no more.
I always recicle so this task don't came nothing new to me, was a diferent task.

Task 4 Daniel

When I came to Coimbra I've started to recycle the garbage.
My results are:

Paper and card ± 2 kg

Plastic and metal ± 1,50 kg

Glass ± 4 kg
That wasn’t a normal week because, normally, we reuse the glass bottles to put water to serve at the time of the meals and this week we decided to throw them way.
I think that the weight of the garbage it’s not much because in my house lives 7 people, so I can conclude that we not spend a lot.

Task 4 - Beatriz Martins

During this week, I, my sister, my father and my mother did the recycling experiment (task 4).

I think recycling is very important for the environment because we produce a lot of garbage and we "send" it to landfills instead of reusing, recovering, renewing and recycling it. We have to realise that if we do the right thing with our garbage we will live much longer and save our planet from unnecessary pollution. So, I think everyone should follow the rule of the 5 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recover, Renew and Recycle) and be "green"!

I have no weighing-machine at home and because of that I could't measure the weight of the garbage that we produced.

Result:

  - lots of plastic;

  - paper (mainly publicity);

  - no glass.

 

Task 4 - Pedro =P

 Me and my family (dad, mom and twin) have been reciclyng since our birth (mine and my twin one) and this week we produce aprox.


Paper - 500g
Plastic - 1 Kg
Glass - 250g (however in the bin were only 2 bottles)


With this task I get that my family produces much more plastic waste then paper and glass but we are a green family because we recycle so this amount of garbage will not "damage the Earth or Pollute the sea" XD

Task 4 - Ana Baía

This task lasted a week or so, and it was very useful because it made me realize our need for saving the planet therefore recycling.  In a household of 3 people we didn't make too much garbage! here are the values:

Glass - 344 g
Paper - 1096 g
Plastic (fantastic) - 500g

Task 4 - Carolina Santos

Recycling Experiment

This week, there was a reality check here in the house: everyone (me and my parents) realized how much waste we produce daily, by separating more than we usually do. Thought we normally separate the different types of garbages, we usually put them on the ecopoint everyday, which means that we had never noticed this before.

As there isn't any weighting-machine in our home (i guess everyone's too afraid to know their real weight...) i couldn't weight the garbage bags, but i collected milk packages, different types of metal cans, some glass and also a lot of cat and dog food bags. I'm pretty sure that almost all of the waste is recyclable. For me, this ended up being a really interesting experience that contributed a bit to save our world!

Task 4 - Inês Ferraz

These are my results for this week:

- Paper - 500 kg

- Plastic/metal - 1,100 kg

- Glass - 3,100 kg

Me and my family - three people (and a dog)- have been recycling for about 6 years paper, glass and plastic/metal. Recently we started to recycle batteries but this week there weren’t batteries to recycle. This wasn’t a normal week because we’ve been two days out of home, but the days we were at home we recycled all we can. It was my mother who started to recycle in our home but now we all recycle everyday like a super normal thing. I think that if we all recycle the world will be a better place with no landfills and all the problems that it causes (e.g. groundwater and soil contamination). Of course it won’t solve all the environmental problems but it will help a lot and we have to start somewhere.

Task 4 - Maria Rita

This week there was no glass or batteries to recycle, but we could gather a good quantity of plastic, metal, paper and cardboard - in the end, the result was an almost full garbage bag with plastic and metal and a small bag with paper and cardboard tightly packed (I wasn't able to weigh the bags because we don't have a weighing-machine at home).
This task was really interesting to do, because it made me realize the ammount of garbage that we produce at home. Of all the household waste produced in my house, I think about 90% is recyclable, though we only recycle around 80% because of the rubbish bins in the rooms. This situation will have to change so that we can "help" a little bit more this threatened planet! After all, if we all separated the garbage, recycling would be a huge helping hand!

Taak 4 - Carla Mata

The results of the "experience" of this week, are:

Glass- 350g

Plastic & metal- 1,200 kg

Paper - 2,700 kg

In my opinion I wasn't expecting that this task would become so interesting, because I didn't know in a week, the amount of trash produced in my house would be so big, but after see the results I understood that every single of us can make a difference to our world.

Task 4- Recycling Experiment Inês Santos

I already do recycling for some time then my weekly results are:

Paper and card ± 0,500 kg

Plastic and metal ± 1,00 kg

Glass ± 0,400 kg

I think recycling is very important because if only in a week the amount of garbage is this, if we multiply it, to all over the world, we will get a significant result, so our mission is change our actions in order to preserve the Earth and make a better world. :)

Task 4 - Recycling Experiment (Gonçalo Marques)

I have always done recycling of all materials I can.

This week wasn't a exception and during it, the results were:

Plastic and Metal: 1,8kg

Paper: 4kg

Glass: 0,800kg

I don't know what percentage of the waste, produced in my home, can be recicled, but I always separate it. I also contribute to "Projeto Tampinhas" and in my grandmothers houses, the waste is used to fertilize the land (organic waste) or to feed the animals.

I really live respecting the 4Rs Politic and I think all people must do the same!
The world is in danger because some people pollute it a lot without thinking in what they are doing and without any kind of worry with other humans and animals.

In my opinion, people who don't recycle, only because they don't want do it, should be really punished.

If we don't protect the planet, we will assist to the end of it. And it will be our end too!

Don't waste time! Start recycling know!

Task 4 - Recycling Experiment (Miguel)

During a week, from November 19 to November 26, I, with the active collaboration of my household (a total of four), made the selective separation of materials.

If it wasn't for this task, I would have never thought that so much garbage could be produced in my house!

Apart from materials that cannot be recycled, from breakfast to dinner time, liquid yogurt bottles, milk cartons, water bottles, rice and sugar packets, among others, are accumulated.

The results of this week’s work are:

– Paper and card ± 0,650 kg

– Plastic and metal ± 1,200 kg

– Glass ± 0,400 kg

After this task, I was really impressed with the waste produced in a house inhabited by four people (2 teens and 2 adults), during a week. Assuming that this is more or less the amount of waste produced in a home, during a week, a lot of garbage is produced by 7 billion people, around the world, every year. If all this household garbage was recycled, we would, without a shadow of doubt, live on a better planet!

So recycle! Protect the life of our planet! Safeguard your life!

Task 4 - Recycling Experiment

Rubbish collected in a household where:
- 3 people and 2 pet dogs live
- 16 meals were prepared or cooked

Time of experiment: 8 days (from 16 to 23 November 2011).

Rubbish produced:











Plastic and metal: milk cartons, Coca - Cola and water bottles, yogurt pots, rice, sugar and spaghetti bags, mushroom and pea cans, among others.

Paper: cereal, chocolate and egg boxes, newspapers and magazines, among others.

Rubbish weight:














Plastic/metal: 0.294kg
Paper: 0.302kg

There were no glass items, no batteries or light bulbs and no electrical gadgets sent to the dustbin.
All organic waste produced was kept in the ordinary bin but was not properly taken care of. I mean it was not composted.

After eight days sorting out the rubbish produced in my home, I really believe that we (my parents and I) are a drop in the ocean of rubbish.
The world would be much cleaner if all people produced rubbish as we do.

Task 4 Recycling Experiment

This task requires the involvement of your household.

It is going to be quite simple: during a week, separate the garbage you produce at home and keep the one that can be recycled (paper, glass, metal, plastic, batteries, etc.). Weigh it to check the amount from your total garbage that can be recycled (Weigh different types of garbage separately - plastic/metal, glass, paper, etc.).

Document your experiment with pictures and write a brief report on it.

Here you have some instructions and links to help you:
Recycling Guide UK
Sociedade Ponto Verde
Deco