Newspaper (January)
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COMENIUS JANUARY 2013 To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees. If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!! The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail. In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space. Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution! The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide. The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year. PAPER RECYCLING FACTS PLASTIC RECYCLING FACTS
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COMENIUS
JANUARY2013
To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!!
The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
PAPER RECYCLING FACTS
PLASTIC RECYCLING FACTS
ECO&ART PROJECT TEAM
ello everyone. I am Simin. I live in Edirne and I have got a brother. I am 17 Hyears old and I am 11th grade student in Edirne Beykent College. I have got light brown hair and brown eyes. I like playing volleyball very much. Every summer I take part in beach volley tournaments. I have been plaing volleyball for 4 years. I like walking in the forest because it makes me relax. Also I like swimming and I like to meet with new people. I want to be a lawyer and fashion model in the future. This project will give me a chance show my creativity in art by using waste materials. My e-mail address: [email protected]
ello everybody. My name is Begüm. I am 16 years old and I am 11th grade Hstudent in Edirne Beykent College. I want to be a lawyer in the future because I am so talkative and I like to defend the rights of people who are in need. I like listening to pop music. I also like playing game consoles like PS 3. My favourite games are Uncharted 3 and NBA. Moreover I am good at playing badminton. My favourite subjects are English and History. Also I like travelling and I like visiting new places and different cultures. Taking part in such kind of a project is a pleasure for me. Becasue this project will give me a chance not only to arise the consciousness about the recycling but also to visiting new places and meeeting with new people. My e-mail address: [email protected]
BEGÜM BALCI
reeting from Turkey. My name is Hilal. I am 16 years old. I have a sister. GShe is 14. She really looks like me and most of the people think that we are twins. My favourite subjects are Geography and History. I want to be a lawyer in the future. I am not as talkative as Begüm but I trust myself. I like playing badminton. Taking part in this project will give me the possibility to take action for the environment. My e-mail address : [email protected]
HÝLAL NUR ÇÖL
ello dear friends. I am Naz and I study at Edirne Beykent College. I live in HUzunköprü. I am 17 years old and I am 11th grade student. I haven't got any brother or sister. My hobbies are singing a song, cooking and drawing. I also like taking photos and shopping. I think this project will attract the attention of people about reacycling and environmental issues. My e-mail address: [email protected]
NAZ ÝÞBÝLEN
SÝMÝN OKUMUÞ
ello everybody. My name is Tuðçe. I am 17 years old. I was born in HHamburg Germany. But I came back to Turkey last year. I study at Edirne Beykent College. I can speak German very well. My hobbies are reading book, playing volleyball and swimming. I also like going to cinema with my friends. I have a sister. She lives in Germany with my family. I live in Edirne with my aunt. In my opinion, this project will be light for the protection of the future of the earth.My e-mail address: [email protected]
TUÐÇE KARAGÖZ
i, everybody. My name is Fýrat and I am 17 years old. I study at Edirne HBeykent College. I like playing game consoles and computer games. I also like surfing on the internet and chatting withy my friends in online.My favourite hobby is hanging around with my friends. I want to be a lawyer in the future. I think, taking part in this project is just like a taking part in a social responsibility porject. So taking action for environment makes me feel good. My e-mail address: [email protected]
FIRAT ÇELÝK
reeting from Edirne, Turkey. My name is Tuðçe. I am 16 years old and I live Gin Edirne. I study at Edirne Beykent College. I am 10th grade students. My favourite subject is English. I like reading book , listening to music and doing sport. I also like watching movies. I want to live in abroad in the future after my university graduation. So, such kind of projects will give me chance to see new places and to meet with new people. Moreover, taking role in this project allow me to develop myself. My e-mail address: [email protected]
ello dear friends. My name is Özlem. I am 16 years old and I study at HEdirne Beykent College. I like reading books , listening to music and shopping like most of the girls. I want to take part in this project becasue I think it is right time to do something for the environment. My e-mail address: [email protected]
ello everyone. My name is Betül. I am 16 years old and I live in Edirne. My Hhobbies are reading book, playing guitar, drawing pictures and singing. My favourite subject is English. In my opinion, this project is a big chance for the future. My e-mail address: [email protected]
i, everybody. My name is Ýlkay. I am 16 years ols. I like playing football. My Hfavourite spoert is football and my favourite team is Glayasaray. I also like reading historical books. Taking part in this project is such a pleasure for me because it gives me chance to do something for the environment and I also have a chance the show my creativity through the project. My e-mail address: [email protected]
ECO&ART PROJECT TEAM
TUÐÇE BEKTAÞ
ÖZLEM KARA
BETÜL OKUR
ÝLKAY YUNUS
he project students who carry out the ECO consciousness of kindergarten students about TSCHOOL project have written a stories recyling. Not only did the kindergarten students about the importnace of recycling and enjoy the activity but also it was a great presented the stories in Beykent Kindergarten. pleasure for the project studentsBy this way, they managed to arise the
STORIES ABOUT RECYCLING
COMICS
any and many people have started to take Maction in order to attract the attention of people about recycling of plastics bags. Threfore, bright ideas and creative designes can be seen everywhere in recent times. Here are the some examples of creative designes.
REUSE THE PLASTICS BAGS AGAIN
tudents in Beykent College have been Sshowing a great effort in order to create the probable logo of the ECO&ART Comenius Project. After they finish designing logos, they will share and show the logos to the school community. Logo preparation is still on progress. This activity is also improve the creativity of the students. Project students aims to attract the attention of the school community and others by creating a striking logo for the project.
WORKING FOR PROJECT LOGO
