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1: You have watched the videos from your group´s topic and presented at least one solution for the respective issue.
Using the material from A1,B1,C1,D1, list four additional ways people can improve their behavior in everyday life (bullet points are OK!)

2: (Once all of you have finished) Please check out the solutions and helpful tips of the other groups.

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3: As a class you will write a short collaborative piece of fiction. (How? --> see 4. for instructions.)

4: Let´s put your knowledge to use. In the section "A day in the life", you will find a typical scenario of a school day. Use the writing prompts given in the box to incorporate your four tips into a typical day of a student from BSZ Leo.

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The Best Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint | Hot Mess 🌎

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97.5% of the world's water is locked in seas and oceans, too salty for human use. And most of the remaining 2.5% is in the ice caps. So we humans depend on the tiny bit available as fresh water - an essential natural resource for life. But we don't just use water for drinking. We wash in it, clean with it, and use it to produce everything from clothing to food. Crop production - including feed for livestock and biofuels - is putting a great strain on fresh water supplies.

1. Turn off the taps

Don't let your water consumption run out of control. Save 6 litres of water a minute by turning off your tap while you brush your teeth. Fix leaky taps  too - and stop what could be 60 litres of water going straight down the drain every week.

2. Shower with less

Every minute you spend in a power shower uses up to 17 litres of water . Set a timer on your phone to keep your showers short, sweet and water-saving.

Switching to an efficient shower head will allow you to lather up in less water, which means you'll save water and cut your bills.

6. Catch rainwater

Installing water butts saves up to 5,000 litres of water a year . And your plants will thank you for rainwater rather than treated tap water.

You can also cut water use by 33% by watering plants manually instead of using automatic sprinklers.

8. No more washing up

Got a dishwasher? Fill it up completely each time you run it and you'll use less water than you would doing the dishes by hand. Yes, even if you're using a washing-up bowl. What better excuse to go and have a nice sit down?

Find out more about the most water- and energy-efficient ways to run your appliances  from the Energy Saving Trust.

10. Boil what you need

Save water, money and energy by only boiling as many cups of water as you need.

11. Steam your veggies

Steam your food to cut water usage and retain more of the natural nutrients.

If you do boil, try using the leftover water as a tasty stock for soups. Or let it cool and use it to water plants.

12. Be plumbing prepared

Regularly check your kitchen pipes and the dishwasher hose for slow leaks.

Find out where your household stop valve  is and make sure that you can turn it on and off. You'll thank us if you ever have a burst pipe, because you'll be able to cut off the flow before it floods the house.

Find a contact number for your water supplier , so that if you find a leak you can let them know and stop water being wasted.

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13 best ways to save water | Friends of the Earth

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Fresh water is one of our most precious natural resources. Find out how to save water at home and learn about why saving water is important.

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Eating, travelling, heating your home... What's the carbon footprint of these activities and how can we make more climate-friendly choices?
When you drive your car, buy a pair of sneakers or grill a steak, you contribute to the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It's your carbon footprint. Many countries, institutions and companies have committed to reduce their emissions while the EU has even set the objective of being "climate neutral" by 2050. As an individual, you can also estimate your carbon footprint and reduce it. Discover how.

What is a carbon footprint?

Greenhouse gases are emitted through the production and consumption of goods and services. Carbon footprint is a concept used to quantify the impact of an activity, a person or a country on climate change.

How much carbon is emitted to produce your t-shirt, meal or phone? The amount will depend on production and consumption choices. If we take the example of transport, taking the plane emits 285g of carbon per kilometre, compared to 104g for a car and 14g for a train. The same goes for the type of meat or fish you eat or the type of jeans you buy.

Why should you care?

The world's seven billion people consume varying amounts of the planet's resources. According to the United Nations' predictions, global population could reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, and over 11 billion by 2100. Growing populations drive up emissions and deplete the planet's resources.

Increased greenhouse gas emissions have a direct impact on global warming. It accelerates climate change with disastrous effects on our planet. All of us can contribute to fighting global warming by making climate-friendly choices in our daily lives.

How to limit your carbon footprint?

Understanding your carbon footprint can help limit the impact of your consumption on the environment. There are different online solutions to help you estimate your carbon footprint.

Small changes can make a big difference in the long run, for example when it comes to transportation, food, clothing, waste, etc. Here are some tips:
Food

Consume local and seasonal products (forget strawberries in winter)

Limit meat consumption, especially beef

Select fish from sustainable fishing

Bring reusable shopping bags and avoid products with excessive plastic packaging

Make sure to buy only what you need, to avoid waste

Clothing

Take good care of your clothes

Try swapping, borrowing, renting or buying second-hand

Buy responsibly-made clothes, e.g. made from recycled material or with an eco-label

Transport

Cycle or use public transport

Be smart about when and how you drive

Try the train for your next holiday

Energy and waste

Turn down the heating by 1°, it will already make a difference

Take short showers

Turn off the water while you brush your teeth or clean the dishes

Unplug your electronic equipment and don't leave your phone on charge when the battery is already full

Don't store unnecessary data in the cloud (learn more about your digital footprint!)

Select energy efficient products with an "A" label (EU Energy Label)

Limit and recycle your waste

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How to reduce my carbon footprint? | European Youth Portal

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Eating, travelling, heating your home... What's the carbon footprint of these activities and how can we make more climate-friendly choices? When you drive your car, buy a pair of sneakers or grill a steak, you contribute to the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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Reduce tu consumo de plástico y mitiga su impacto en el medio ambiente

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La invasión de los plásticos en el planeta es una realidad. Basta con recordar que la isla de residuos plásticos que flota en el océano Pacífico ya tiene 1,6 millones de km2. Si queremos preservar el planeta, ha llegado el momento de que todos y cada uno de nosotros tomemos medidas.

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I recently wrote a post about the problem of recycling, and it got me thinking about my own recycling habits - more specifically, how little I know about recycling. Do I separate bottle caps or lids? How clean do materials have to be? What about all those numbers on plastics?

Frustrated, I launched my own recycling crusade. It took the form of long internet searches, several phone calls and lots of inconsistencies.

Recycling is a regional enterprise, and each city has different rules, which complicates things for residents who just want to know how to recycle correctly. The truth is that recycling is confusing.

"There's a lot of different rules, and even if there's an understanding of what can be recycled, there may be different rules in different jurisdictions," says Jeffrey Raymond, chief of communications and community affairs for Baltimore's Department of Public Works. "In terms of communicating all this, we have to walk a line between getting people to make recycling as simple as possible, and not making it so intimidating and difficult that they don't recycle at all."

Below are some of my recycling-crusade takeaways. Take them with a grain of salt, or microplastic. There is no universal recycling program, and there is no silver-bullet solution. But even as we increase our reducing and reusing habits, we can't avoid recycling, so we should try to do it right.

1. No bags. Like really, no bags.

Grocery bags dissolve into potentially harmful microplastics and, in the case of ingestion or entanglement, hurt and kill animals. They're pretty much the worst. Even though these bags are technically recyclable, you must go to a drop-off area to do that, not your curbside bin.

Everyone I talked to from city recycling programs said that plastic bags are the number-one contaminant in recycling loads. Plastic bags act as "tanglers," getting caught in machinery and shutting down the equipment.

In some cases, like in Montgomery County, Maryland, when plastic bags full of recyclables arrive at the facility, workers are not allowed to open the bags, says Griselda Guillen of the county's recycling center. That means the entire bag, even if it's full of water bottles, is considered trash.

Though grocery bags may be posterchildren of plastic pollution, sandwich bags, bubble wrap, plastic wrapping and other flimsy materials that don't survive the poke test - where the plastics are soft enough to push your finger through it - are also prime candidates for commercial drop-off areas, not the residential recycling bin.

This also means you shouldn't bag your recyclables. Instead, dump them loosely right into your blue bins.
Solution: Buy a couple canvas bags, get some reusable containers and dust off that "Small Soldiers" lunch box you had in grade school (or was that just me?).
2. Small things are big problems

Don't recycle anything smaller than a credit card. That includes straws, bottlecaps, coffee pods, plastic cutlery, paperclips and a million other tiny things that creep into our daily lives. These objects are too small to be sorted and can jam the recycling equipment

At Montgomery County, Maryland's Recycling Center, these contaminants can shut down machines 10-15 times a day, says Guillen.

But what about plastic lids and metal bottlecaps? you might ask.

Helen Lee of Alexandria, Virginia's Resource Recovery Division points out that "if you put the plastic cap back on the bottle, it becomes bigger than a business card, so it would be captured [by the sorting equipment]."

According to the Association of Plastic Recyclers, when plastics are grinded into pellets, the different numbered plastics have different weights and can be separated easily after that.

That's not so easy for metal bottlecaps, which tend to fall off glass bottles. You can sometimes bring these metal bottle caps to companies that take scrap. Or if you're a millennial like me, you can buy a hip bottlecap holder on Etsy.
Solution: Be conscious of what you throw in that recycling bin.
3. Make sure it's clean, empty and dry

Food waste is a son of a bitch for recycling. It contaminates whole loads of recyclable material, rendering them useless and fast-tracking them to landfills. In the U.S., food waste contaminates 25 percent of our recycling loads.

"The message we try to have residents remember is clean, empty and dry," says Lee.

But just how clean?

"I always tend to tell people that their recyclable material should be clean enough to use again," says Howard Lee (no relation to Alexandria's Helen Lee) of Washington, D.C.'s Office of Waste Diversion. "So, if you're putting things in the bin and you're concerned about rodents or rats or anything like that, then chances are your recyclables are not clean."

With that in mind, be wary of advertising at your local fast-food joint. I recently saw a paper taco bowl that read, "Please Recycle. We Care About the Environment." That's fake news. You can't recycle something covered in salsa and beans. You may have better luck composting that bowl, but again, it's complicated.

You can also recycle pizza boxes... if they're not covered in cheese and grease. If they are, you can always tear off the clean part and recycle that.
Solution: Just as the rule states, make sure your recyclables are clean, empty and dry. It'll take seconds and if everyone did it, it would save tons of recyclables going to the landfill.
4. Combined materials are trash

Recycling only works when like materials are together. Unfortunately, items like plastic-coated coffee cups, laminated paper and paper-bubble wrap envelopes from the mail can't ever be separated, which means they're trash.
Solution: Try to avoid buying nonrecyclable materials that can't be separated. And when you can, shop local to cut down on the carbon footprint of your products.
5. Know your plastics

Not all plastics are treated equally. Rigid plastics are recyclable, labeled by resin codes 1 through 7. Generally, the higher the number, the less recyclable it is. Most recycling centers will recycle plastics 1 and 2 without a problem. Past that gets tricky.

Furthermore, a lot of plastic just isn't recyclable curbside. As noted earlier, you can't recycle plastic bags or films. Additionally, you can't recycle anything that can tear like paper. That means no cracker bags, chip bags or cereal bags.

"With plastics, it does get so confusing," says Erin Hafner of Baltimore's recycling program. "Clamshell containers, cutlery, plastic straws - all that stuff that ends up in the [recycling] bin." And it shouldn't.
Solution: Check your city's recycling website for the number the city takes. GreenLivingTips.com has this helpful cheat sheet for recycling plastics in your area.
6. Stop wishcycling

When it comes to recycling, one of the worst things you can do is wishcycle. That's when we optimistically put nonrecyclable objects in recycling bins, the topic of my boss's recent blog post. When we do this, we contaminate whole loads of otherwise recyclable materials.

"A lot of people wish that this material can be recycled, and it seems like it's made out of the materials that could be recycled, but sometimes it's not," says Helen Lee.

Cities have certain thresholds to meet when they send their recyclables to third-party waste management companies. If they surpass these thresholds - in other words, if there's too much trash mixed into the recycling load - that entire load could end up in a landfill.

So when you wishcycle, you screw up the entire system.
Solution: Don't wishcycle. Which brings us to our next point.
7. Teach yourself

At the end of the day, we can't know everything. There's a bunch of stuff we accumulate over our lives - batteries, electronics, paint cans, toys, clothing, wood - and they, unfortunately, all have separate drop off centers or special instructions for recycling.
Solution: Hit up your local recycling website, and teach yourself what you need to know. This article only gets you so far.
Demand change

Of course, you can change your individual behavior: Clean containers better, only recycle what's recyclable and most importantly, reduce your overall use.

"[Be] mindful of how you purchase products," says Howard Lee. "Start with reducing the amount of waste you create. Once you've gotten the hang of reducing your waste - maybe not buying so many water bottles - you can start to reuse things that you have and recycle or compost before getting to a landfill."

But don't let industry off the hook, either. Manufacturers and lobbyists have created a single-use empire built on this false narrative of recycling as the be-all-end-all solution to our consumption habits. Like Dylan Thomas wrote, "Do not go gentle into that good night" (admittedly, this wasn't about recycling, but you get the point). Get mad as hell. Make some noise. Demand solutions, not delays. That materials like plastics are unavoidable in our market economy is not your fault.

Check out Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign, find additional ways to reduce your plastic waste and make a pledge to reduce your use of plastic. Just earlier this year, I was living a lie, thinking I could recycle whatever I wanted. Now I must face the facts - and so must you.

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You're doing it wrong: 7 tips to recycle better | Earth Day

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Please go to the ZUMPad (below). At least one person from each group should access the ZUMPad.

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