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Hatice SOYSAL KAYA Adnan Hadiye Surmegoz Secondary School

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Hatice SOYSAL KAYA Adnan Hadiye Surmegoz Secondary School

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Making pencil holders from waste fabrics.

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We learned how to make pencil holders from waste fabric materials.

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Waste battery box from waste materials and boxes

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Bihter HİZMETÇİ/ Toygarlı Gazipaşa Secondary school / Hatay/ TÜRKİYE

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Bihter HİZMETÇİ/ Toygarlı Gazipaşa Secondary school / Hatay/ TÜRKİYE

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We learned how to make a waste battery box from waste materials an boxes.

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Making piggy banks from waste colored paper

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We learned how to make a piggy bank from waste colored paper.

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Bihter HİZMETÇİ/Toygarlı Gazipaşa secondary School/Hatay / TÜRKİYE

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Bihter HİZMETÇİ/Toygarlı Gazipaşa secondary School/Hatay / TÜRKİYE

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we learned how to make a vase from a waste glass jar. It became a useful vase by recycling it.

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Adnan Hadiye Sürmegöz Secondary School Konya Turkey

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Adnan Hadiye Sürmegöz Secondary School Konya Turkey

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My Students /  Wristband from waste threads

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My Students /  Wristband from waste threads

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My Students /  Wristband from waste threads

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My Students /  Wristband from waste threads

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Çekmece Yılmaz Nurlu Secondary School Hatay Türkiye-My student made ornaments from bottles as a recycling work.

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Çekmece Yılmaz Nurlu Secondary School Hatay Türkiye-My student made ornaments from bottles as a recycling work.

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My student made a pencil holder as a recycling work.

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My student made a pencil holder as a recycling work.

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Students training on recycling and recycling to waste

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Students training on recycling and recycling to waste

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My students gave waste materials a new chance and gave life to them by recycling.

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My students gave waste materials a new chance and gave life to them by recycling.

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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For our dear student Baran project;

He made the Turkish Flag using the leftover nails, rope, spray paint and wood in his house.

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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For our dear student Eylül project;

Using colored tongue sticks and glue, he made a model of a house with a swing and a doghouse in the yard.

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Secondary School Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Secondary School Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Our dear student Emine for our project;

She made a waterfall of flowers using stones, wire and glue to utilize the broken cup and old artificial flowers in her home.

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Ortaokulu Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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For our beloved student Sude project;

To take advantage of the worn jeans in her home, she made a bag using scissors, needles, thread and sequins.

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Secondary School Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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Melike Dikmen / Emine Boro Secondary School Tarsus Mersin /TÜRKİYE

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For our dear student Güler project;

She made a snow globe using glitter, water and glue in order to evaluate the waste jars and toy parts in her house.

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Students'works

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Hatice SOYSAL KAYA ADNAN HADİYE SÜRMEGÖZ SECONDARY SCHOOL -KONYA/TÜRKİYE

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Hatice SOYSAL KAYA ADNAN HADİYE SÜRMEGÖZ SECONDARY SCHOOL -KONYA/TÜRKİYE

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Our works from consumption to production.I am Evaluating Waste in My Home. 

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Our works from consumption to production.I am Evaluating Waste in My Home. 

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1-They designed their dream house from used cardboard and ice cream sticks.
2-they made a touch screen bar made of plastic material
3-They made a snow globe from an old jar

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Sümer Secondary School Ereğli Konya Turkey

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Sümer Secondary School Ereğli Konya Turkey

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We did various activities using waste materials, we had fun, we learned, and we obtained products by protecting the environment.

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We make a house from waste materials

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We make flowers from waste materials

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I made my house out of a shoe box, now my house will be a nest for birds.

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I make my own baby out of leftover yarn and use the waste.

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I'm making a phone holder out of a soap box. I use waste and protect nature.

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Sümer Secondary School Ereğli Konya Turkey

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Sümer Secondary School Ereğli Konya Turkey

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We did various activities using waste materials, we had fun, we learned, and we obtained products by protecting the environment.

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Tuğbanur R.
I make vases from our waste materials

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I make a frame from newspaper waste

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Gonca Tasalı / Mehmet Kamile Karahan Secondary School Adılcevaz Bitlis Turkey

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Gonca Tasalı / Mehmet Kamile Karahan Secondary School Adılcevaz Bitlis Turkey

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Our works from consumption to production.I am Evaluating Waste in My Home. My students made pencil cases out of used jar bottles. For this work, they also used the finished rolls of toilet paper.

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Our works from consumption to production.I am Evaluating Waste in My Home. My students made pencil cases out of used jar bottles. For this work, they also used the finished rolls of toilet paper.

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Azerbaijan / My Student and your workıng

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Azerbaijan / My Student and your workıng

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Meliha / A musical instrument made of sand

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Meliha / A musical instrument made of sand

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ŞATO Anatolian High School

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Professional Development

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My students brought waste materials such as fabric pieces, paper plates, tires, a can from their homes.They created a pencil box they can use with their classmates in classroom. 

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My students brought waste materials such as fabric pieces, paper plates, tires, a can from their homes.They created a pencil box they can use with their classmates in classroom. 

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ŞATO Anatolian High School

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Şehit Abdullah Tayyip Olçok Anatolian High School

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Şehit Abdullah Tayyip Olçok Anatolian High School

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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My students recycled metal cans (soft drinks) in their home to make beautiful items

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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My students reuse leftover food and banana peels with the help of their family making compost

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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My students reuse leftover banana peels with the help of their families in making compost to reduce pollution, preserve the environment, and fertilize plants because of its environmental impact.

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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My students reuse leftovers by helping their families make compost to reduce pollution and preserve the environment, and fertilize plants because of its environmental impact.

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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My students reuse leftover banana peels with the help of their families in making compost to reduce pollution, preserve the environment, and fertilize plants because of its environmental impact.

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Phrases provided by students
of King Abdullah II School
of Excellence that
encourage recycling

Using the ShatterPix program

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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Huda Alhwaiti /King Abdullah II for Excellence School / Aqaba/Jordan

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King Abdullah II School of Excellence students prepared various reports on plastic pollution and finding solutions.

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Plastic pollution of the seas poses a direct threat to the marine environment balance, and human health on the other hand. Plastic material has negative impacts on biodiversity, whether directly or indirectly. When plastic materials enter the food chain through fine particles, it is a major challenge to human health and well-being. Hence, keeping the ocean healthy contributes to maintaining human well-being as well.

Plastic waste is a scourge on the seas and oceans

One million plastic bottles of drinking water are purchased every minute. As many as 5 trillion non-usable plastic bags are used around the world every year. All in all, more than 50 percent of the plastic we use is disposable plastic. Nearly a third of the plastic packaging we use lacks a collection system, which results in urban streets filling up with plastics and polluting the natural environment. About 13 million tons of plastic ends up in the oceans, as these materials affect coral reefs and threaten vulnerable marine wildlife. Plastic also degrades and dissolves in the water we drink - and thus can enter the human body. And plastic contains a number of chemicals, many of which are toxic or affect hormones.
Plastic pollution
Plastic waste in the seas
The dangers of plastic pollution have spread rapidly for nearly half a century, and the seas and oceans are the most vulnerable areas, including marine organisms and zooplankton on which people depend for their daily food. Some believe that most of the waste is on land, but the reality and studies indicate that most of the amount of plastic waste ends up in sea and ocean water, and thousands of tons of remnants of packages, bags, casings and bags settle in the stomachs of fish, birds, turtles and whales. Plastic particles are so tiny that they sink to the bottom, eaten by fish and other marine life, and end up in our daily dishes. A large study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature confirmed that small plastic particles caused by synthetic fabrics and car tires pollute the seas in a large scale that was not known before.

Plastic parts of very small sizes can affect human health through sea food they eat, such as fish that ingest plastic. Plastic waste also reached the sea salt that humans use in food on a daily basis, and it has been proven that there are about seven hundred plastic particles per kilogram in Chinese samples of sea salt. And since the source of these particles is due to the seawater from which the salt is extracted, the researchers believe that there is a very likely possibility that table salt in other countries may also be contaminated with plastic particles as well.

Plastic and human health

Spreading plastic pollution into the oceans, it can harm the bacteria that humans need to help breathing. One-tenth of the oxygen inhaled comes from just one type of ocean bacteria through photosynthesis. But the study found that chemicals, which leach out from plastic waste, can stop oxygen-producing bacteria and harm their growth.

How does plastic pollution affect our breathing?

Plastic in the ocean will outnumber fish by 2050

The level of pollution in some areas has reached 580,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer, which poses a danger to birds that accidentally swallow plastic materials, which causes some diseases or even death. Plastic does not biodegrade, meaning that the germs that break down other materials do not take plastic as food for them, leaving it to float on the water forever.
Pollution with plastic materials and birds
And the sun's rays eventually dissolve the plastic polymers, turning them into smaller and smaller pieces, however, the plastic does not fade away but rather becomes microscopic, and it may be eaten by tiny marine organisms and enter the food chain

Huge quantities of plastic have reached the oceans, but small amounts of it are found on the surface of the oceans ... because it turns into plastic particles, which are thrown out by the waves and eaten by sharks and other fish. And the remaining parts of the plastic materials, some of which may drown in the depths of the oceans, while others may enter the food chain of marine animals.

Where has the plastic that was supposed to float on the surface of the oceans, but we did not find a trace of it? "

Coral reefs are under threat from many fronts. In the past 30 years, we have lost up to 50 percent of the world's coral reefs to the effects of rising sea temperatures due to climate change, overfishing, and a host of land-based activities. A new study reveals that coral reefs are being trapped by plastic

1. 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been manufactured from the 1950s to the present day.

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Plastic does not degrade in the environment, we need to think seriously about how to get rid of it, recycle it and reduce our use of it. "

TIn order to stop pollution of the oceans, experts believe that the source of pollution must be closed by following a waste prevention strategy, which is to significantly reduce the percentage of plastic garbage. Likewise, work should be taken to recycle soft plastic bags that are used in commercial markets and fill the streets and dumps of garbage, and the initiative to sort garbage into two separate bags, the first for organic garbage and the second for things that can be recycled such as plastic and cardboard. A number of countries had imposed a ban on the use of plastic bags.itle your

Plastic materials take between 10 and 1000 years to decompose. Plastic bottles, for example, take an average of 450 years to decompose. As for glass remnants, although it is made of dirt, it is a material that never decomposes, while the leaves take from two to six weeks to decompose. Even cigarette butts, despite their small size, have a period of decomposition of up to 12 years. Scientists also agree that the best way to deal with the crisis of accumulated waste is to reduce the plastic industry, in addition to trying to manufacture materials that replace plastic bags, but are environmentally friendly, so that they are reused or that they quickly degrade even if they are disposed of.

Plastic degradation takes hundreds of years

Direction to make biodegradable bags
Currently, there is a trend to manufacture biodegradable plastic bags in order to reduce environmental pollution

Boycotting unnatural and plastic-based cosmetic products Like facial scrubs, toothpaste, and body washes are harmful, choose products with natural exfoliation, such as oatmeal or salt. Boycotting plastic kitchenware and food. When cooking, try to rely on non-plastic materials and use recyclable garbage bags, and when eating outside the home, tell the restaurant that you do not need plastic cutlery, and you can also bring your own glass food containers to store food in them. -Recycling, - The application of a tax on the use or prohibited use of plastic materials, Supporting companies that produce recyclable containers and alternative containers by purchasing and using their products.
Plastic pollution solutions
To contribute to confronting the environmental pollution of the planet, where does this waste go and what is the truth about recycling? Before the beginning of this year, China used to import and recycle more than half of the world's waste of plastic and paper, but it banned the import of plastic waste for environmental reasons, and the reason for its containing other waste is because individuals do not commit to classifying the waste when disposing of it, which led to the accumulation of this waste and even its arrival. To the oceans How long does it take for our waste to degrade in nature As 91 percent of American waste ends up in landfills, especially the oceans, and 70 percent of European waste ends up without a recycling process. Therefore, the European Union tended to impose fees on the plastic industry, to reduce pollution resulting from this industry.

The waste recycling process has gone through many stages over the past years

The students of the King Abdullah II School of Excellence prepared various reports on plastic pollution and found solutions to them

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Plastic pollution ... threatens nature and mankind

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Plastic pollution of the seas poses a direct threat to the marine environment balance, and human health on the other hand. Plastic material has negative impacts on biodiversity, whether directly or indirectly. When plastic materials enter the food chain through fine particles, it is a major challenge to human health and well-being.