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Did you know that Proper waste management contributes to...

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Goal No.3(Health and wellbeing)
In some countries like Japan they burn their combustable trash and that can release dangerous gasses and cause lung diseases.

Goal No.11 (Sustainable communities)and No.12 (Reasonable consumption and production)
think about it Proper waste management is basically Goal 11 and 12

Goal No.13 (Climate action)
countries like Japan they burn their combustable trash and that can release dangerous gasses

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Firmly established as a well-loved and vital part of the Hong Kong event landscape, the annual Cleanup Challenge runs from January through November, and is the region's largest event of its kind. Participation is simple, and begins with registering a team here. The Hong Kong Cleanup team also has an in-house expert events team that organises fully managed cleanup events, for corporations and organizations wishing to plan a day out doing something meaningful with their employees and their colleagues, families, clients or other partners.

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The Hong Kong Cleanup is a year-long educational platform that works with community, schools, government and businesses to provide practical solutions to help us all live more sustainably every day of the year. We are the official Hong Kong coordinators of the global cleanup movement, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) and the Let's Do It World Cleanup, sanctioned by UNEP.

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Aim
To tell the school peps why they should reduce waste and how to reduce waste.

Action
look into peoples trash and do a trash pickup

Audience
Everybody

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What do people think about reducing waste?

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In my google forms survey I have found that a lot of answers for my burning questions.

1. How much trash do you produce in a day?
most students in Y6 produce an normal amount of waste(5-10)and tied to that was a good amount of waste
(7-10).

2. What kind of waste do you produce the most?
The top answer is plastic and the second most chosen answer is food waste.

3. If a cashier offers you a plastic bag would you accept it?
The top answer is depends(only if their in a rush or they forgot their reusable bag) the second most chosen answer is almost never(They usually bring a reusable bag and they barely ever use a plastic bag).

4. How important is reducing waste to you?
1st answer is pretty important(3-10) and in 2nd most chosen answer is neutral(5-10)

5. How knowledgeable are you about proper waste management?
Most people know a decent amount of it(3-5). And the 2nd most chosen answer is a pretty good amount(4-5).

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Zero-Waste Kitchen Products for a Sustainable Life - Plastic-Free HK

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Make easy, effective changes to your kitchen that will reduce your daily waste and allow you to live more sustainably.

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-Stop the trash don't be the trash
-This is not trash you are
(Holding plastic bag)
-If we throw away everything our
solutions will be thrown away
-Recycle for a better future

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8. Finally kick that plastic water bottle habit, and find a reusable bottle that you love using.

Gyan Yankovich

In 2016, more than 480 billion plastic water bottles were sold worldwide. Beyond the fact that plastic bottles use water and oil (AKA two resources we should absolutely not be wasting) to create, because there are so many bottles being used and discarded, it's almost impossible to recycle them all - most ending up in the ocean or landfill. According to new research, by 2050 the ocean will contain more plastic than fish.

The best way to fight this war on plastic - if you live somewhere where tap water is safe to drink - is to choose not to buy bottled water. I got a Swell bottle (above) for my birthday two years ago and since then have bought considerably less plastic bottles. You can buy Swell bottles like mine from Amazon for $45 or get the knockoff version for $19.99 (available in 36 colors and four sizes) or from Jet for $19.99.

10. Start composing your food waste either in your own backyard or through a neighborhood compost collection service.

Tom Vellner

I always thought of composting as something I'd do when I'm a 60-year-old hippy with a worm farm, living off-the-grid in the mountains somewhere. But, nope. Right now, I live in NYC and once a week drop my compost (food scraps, egg shells, and coffee grounds mainly) to a local drop-off point where it's used in a neighborhood community garden. A quick Google search should provide details about any compost drop-off points near you, and my lovely colleague Tom wrote about the adorable compost bin we both own here and has tips for getting started here.

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16 Ways You Can Create Less Trash In 2018

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Disposing of waste has huge environmental impacts and can cause serious problems. In the UK much is buried in landfill sites - holes in the ground, sometimes old quarries, sometimes specially dug. Some waste will eventually rot, but not all, and in the process it may smell, or generate methane gas, which is explosive and contributes to the greenhouse effect. Leachate produced as waste decomposes may cause pollution. Badly-managed landfill sites may attract vermin or cause litter.

Incinerating waste also causes problems, because plastics tend to produce toxic substances, such as dioxins, when they are burnt. Gases from incineration may cause air pollution and contribute to acid rain, while the ash from incinerators may contain heavy metals and other toxins. Because of these problems there are active campaigns against waste incineration. Greenpeace actively worked on these issues and some information, including a map of UK waste incinerators, can be found by searching the Greenpeace website for waste incineration. However, burning waste can generate energy and there are operational schemes. The Renewable Energy Association website provides more information including a map of biomass and energy from waste projects.

Throwing away things wastes resources. It wastes the raw materials and energy used in making the items and it wastes money. Reducing waste means less environmental impact, less resources and energy used and saves money.

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Disposing of waste has huge environmental impacts and can cause serious problems. In the UK much is buried in landfill sites - holes in the ground, sometimes old quarries, sometimes specially dug. Some waste will eventually rot, but not all, and in the process it may smell, or generate methane gas, which is explosive and [...]

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Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz has established a reputation not only for his critically acclaimed appropriations of iconic figures like Jackson Pollack in chocolate syrup or the Mona Lisa in peanut butter and jelly but for his early work, a subtly deceptive series of portraits featuring smiling children made from sugar. The "Sugar Children" are child laborers whom the artist befriended in the Caribbean, and in this work, he contemplates their future as workers in the cane fields. The portraits launched his career and were shown as part of the Museum of Modern Art's esteemed New Photography series.

This kind of social consciousness is also the subject of Muniz's most recent work, which is chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film Waste Land by director Lucy Walker.

The film begins with Muniz returning to his family home in Brazil, where he describes his humble beginnings and journeys to the Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The film's incredible cinematography captures the endless toil of the catadores, a small band of garbage collectors who separate recyclable materials. These low-paid collectors are found working in dangerous conditions, overwhelmed in oceans of trash.

"These people are at the other end of consumer culture," says Muniz. "I was expecting to see people who were beaten and broken. But they are survivors." The humanity of these marginalized people is captured in heartbreaking interviews with the workers and in small details: in one scene, meals are cooked in the dump from reclaimed food.

Muniz initially planned to paint their portraits with the garbage, but instead he worked with them to create enormous photographs of each person from materials in the dump. In the film, the careful collaboration results in a crash course in contemporary art and therapy. Muniz has to persuade his subjects to participate, shoot portraits of them in an impromptu studio in the dump, get the collectors to pick garbage to sculpt with for their portraits, and then document the final collage.

Within this time, Muniz transforms the workers into diligent art assistants. They go though a deep process of learning about his work while creating monumental sculptures of their likenesses. In turn, they begin to see themselves differently.

The film prompts ethical questions about where a journalist or an artist should draw the lines with a subject. For Muniz, those lines are undefined and repeatedly tested in the film and in his artistic process.

Toward the end of the film, Muniz goes to London to auction the work at Phillips de Pury, selling one portrait for more than $64,000. He returns 100% of the proceeds to the subjects so they can improve their labor union to educate and protect the workers of Jardim Gramacho.

Waste Land documents a self-reflective artistic process that leaves no one untouched, and in the end, the final portraits stand as testimony that art can indeed change lives in small and great ways.

To see more of Muniz's work, visit www.vikmuniz.net.

The film was released on DVD on March 15, 2011, by New Video and ArtHouse Films.

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Portraits with Purpose: Vik Muniz in Waste Land

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Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say.

Researchers are particularly concerned about huge concentrations of microplastic fragments in sea ice.

They say they've found plastic litter almost everywhere in the Arctic they have looked.

Norwegian fishermen are worried that their fish stocks may lose their reputation for being untouched by pollution.

Most of the large plastic waste there comes from discarded fishing gear.

And boat owners admit it will take hundreds of years to overcome a few reckless decades of using the sea as a dump.

Norway's environment minister says politicians in the past haven't fully registered the extent of the problem.

A synthesis report from the Norwegian Polar Institute to the recent Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø says there's a great need for more research into the extent of possible harm from plastic.

It says effects have been monitored so far on zooplankton, invertebrates, fish, seabirds, and mammals.

Research shows that up to 234 particles have been found concentrated into just one litre of melted Arctic sea ice. That's much higher than in the open ocean.

Researchers explain that sea ice forms from the top. By unfortunate coincidence, plastic particles also float at the surface, so they get bonded into the ice as it freezes.

They are not yet sure how much of a threat this presents.

But they are worried about the impact on Arctic wildlife if the particles are released as sea ice continues to shrink.

Geir Wing Gabrielsen, one of the paper's authors, told BBC News: "We are finding more and more plastic waste in Svalbard, where I work. "The northern fulmar breeds in Svalbard.

"At the end of the 1970s we found very few plastic in their stomachs. In 2013 when we last investigated, some had more than 200 pieces of plastic in their stomachs.

"Other creatures are getting entangled in nets washed up on beaches - like reindeer. Some die because they can't release their antlers - we find them every year."

He said in southern Norway pollution was dominated by plastics from the home - but in Svalbard 80% of it comes from fishing activities, local and distant.

Surveys suggest that fishing crews are increasingly aware of their responsibilities now.

Jan Roger Lerbukt, manager of Hermes Fishing in Tromsø told me: "In the past 20 years I've seen a change in awareness in everyone towards protecting the environment.

"Fishing has been in our soul for thousands of years. If there's any environmental threat to the fish it's also a threat to our livelihood and that's a big concern.

"We have a reputation for a pure product and we don't want that damaged."

He agreed that trawler crews used to throw tangled nets overboard, but says they now they return them to harbour.

He says they also salvage plastic litter they catch, under a scheme called Fishing for Litter.

More and more crews are using paper packaging and moving away from plastic tape, he said.

But on a short walk along a plastic-strewn beach in Skulsfjord near Tromsø, I found clear evidence of fishing ropes still being deliberately cut.

And in the open water, "ghost nets" are easy to find.

Bo Eide, an environment consultant for Tromsø Council, conducts litter-picking on the beaches.

"People see the pictures in brochures of the pristine Arctic and they book their holidays to come here," he tells me.

"They're sometimes rather shocked to find that the Arctic in close-up is no longer how it looks in the brochures."

Norway's environment Minister Ola Elvestuen told BBC News: "It's disturbing - there's nowhere on Earth that's so far away that its not affected by plastics.

"This should be a call for action. It's been known about for years, but the magnitude of it hasn't been taken in as it should have been. We must stop the plastic pollution."

Researchers say there's been no systematic microplastics survey of all parts of the Arctic. They hope to compile an inventory, potentially with the help of "citizen scientists".

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In the great Pacific garbage patch. It's estimated to be twice the size of Texas.

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The global tide of ocean plastic pollution is a clear violation of international law, campaigners say.

They have been urging for a new global treaty to tackle the problem.

But a new report - to be presented to a Royal Geographical Society conference on Tuesday - says littering the sea with plastics is already prohibited under existing agreements.

The report urges those governments that are trying to tackle the issue to put legal pressure on those that are not.

The paper has been written by the veteran environment journalist Oliver Tickell.

His conclusions are backed by ClientEarth, the legal group that successfully sued the UK over failures to meet air pollution laws.

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Tickell says legal action against big polluters such as China, India and Indonesia can be taken only by a nation state.

So he calls for governments and green groups to support small island nations suffering most from plastic pollution.

Tickell maintains that marine plastic litter can already be controlled through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); the London Convention; the MARPOL Convention; the Basel Convention; Customary Law, and many other regional agreements.

Article 194 of UNCLOS, for instance, requires states to "prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from any source.

"Measures shall include, inter alia, those designed to minimize to the fullest possible extent... the release of toxic, harmful or noxious substances, especially those which are persistent, from land-based sources... [and] shall include those necessary to protect and preserve rare or fragile ecosystems as well as the habitat of depleted, threatened or endangered species and other forms of marine life."

Tickell adds: "Amid all the hand-wringing over ocean plastic, the fact that it's actually illegal has scarcely been mentioned.

"Sadly, very few states are in compliance with those obligations they have committed to."

He says offenders could be taken to the International Court of Justice and ordered to pay compensation.

But Tickell warns that enforcement is not easy as only nation states are able to bring a case.

He believes small islands suffering the worst impacts of marine plastic pollution may be fearful of confronting the generally larger, more powerful countries responsible for the problem.

China, India and Indonesia are among the worst culprits.

A spokesman for ClientEarth told BBC News: "Under current international law, states already have the obligation to prevent, control and reduce marine plastic pollution.

"A new convention might impose more specific action, but the political energy needed for a new international agreement could be put to better use.

"Negotiating a new international agreement is not a pre-requisite for action at the national level."

Tuesday's conference is organised by a campaign group called Artists Project Earth. It is proposing the Ocean Plastic Legal Initiative.

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Transcript of "To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent -- when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks into the trash, those things inevitably end up in ever-growing landfills. But we can get smarter about the way we make, and remake, our products.

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Reducing waste is important because if we recycle our paper/plastic then we won't need to harvest new materials and waste more fossil fuels that make C02. This is bad because if we harvest more materials we'll release C02 and pollute the air which will cause icebergs to melt and raise the water levels which will probably flood HK. C02 is created by burning carbon and when it burns it creates a gas that can pollute the air.   TED talk

And even if we incinerate our trash it can release dangerous toxic chemicals and cause acid rain. Acid rain is bad because when acid rain falls it releases particles that can give you lung diseases and make it hard for you to breathe. This is bad cause if you have a lung disease you will have a harder time living.   Green choices

also in the Norwegian arctic researchers have found that huge traces of plastic particles are bonding with sea ice! And the government is scared that it poses a threat to the ocean life of the Norwegian arctic. And if this continues an animal could go extinct and it could destroy its ecosystem and invasive species can invade the ecosystem then more animals will die which can create more invasive species. BBC

The ocean is constantly being littered in and theres so much trash in the ocean that 3 in 4 deep water fishes have traces of micro-plastics in them. And this is bad because if species of fish goes extinct it could destroy its ecosystem and invasive species can invade the ecosystem then more animals will die which can create more invasive species.BBC

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The Waste and Resources Action Programme (which operates as WRAP) is a registered UK Charity No. 1159512 and registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England & Wales No. 4125764.

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1)Use reusable items
if you use use reusable items you won't need to use non-reusable items like plastic cutlery and plastic straws.

2)Buy as much as you can eat
sometimes if you buy too much or can't finish your dinner you can put it in a reusable container and save it for tomorrow so that you don't waste your food and you'll save more money.($^$)

3)Start composting
Whenever you eat a banana what you have left is usually a banana peel and instead of throwing it in the bit you can start composting and throw it into the wild for it to rot into dirt. it helps the earth 2 times as much!

4)Repair your broken items
instead of buying a new shirt when it gets broken you can repair it in a shop, do it yourself or even ask a friend/family to help it will save you money and helps the earth at the same time

5)Donate your old clothes
If you can't repair a clothing item or it's too small you can donate your old clothes insteadand help poor people that can't afford clothes.

6)Thrift
Being thrifty is being wise on your financial decisions
by reusing old materials to save your money. An example is my grandma uses her old cookie box container to store food and saves money by using the cookie box instead of buying new containers and at the same time she is helping the earth by not throwing away the cookie box.

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Unless you live a zero-waste lifestyle, there is always room for improvement when it comes to taking care of the planet.

While the abstract idea of reducing one's waste can be overwhelming, a great place to start is within the comfort of your own home.

Little changes such as switching to cloth bags instead of plastic ones or making a concerted effort to recycle cans and bottles can make a big difference in your waste output.

Below, 9 simple changes you can make to reduce waste in your home.

1. Get to know the rules of recycling.

Don't be intimidated by the complicated symbols and sorting rules. Navigating the recycling system is actually quite simple once you do a little research. Since recycling standards vary from place to place, find out the specific rules for your area.

While it's better to implement reusable packaging in your home wherever possible, recycling is the next best option and it will prevent excess waste from heading for the landfill.

2. Ditch the plastic bags.

One of the simplest ways to decrease the amount of waste you produce is to use reusable bags while shopping. Instead of relying on your supermarket's plastic bags, bring your own cloth ones to pack up your items and tote them home. Keeping a bunch of extra bags in the trunk of your car or right by the door is an easy way to make sure you don't forget them at home.

3. Make a meal plan.

In addition to material waste, food waste is a huge problem in American households. However, it's entirely preventable if the consumer follows one simple rule: only buy groceries that you know will eat. It sounds like a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised at how much food is regularly thrown into the garbage in America.

4. Start relying on reusable containers.

Once you start buying only what you need, take it to the next level by storing food properly, which will extend its life and keep things fresh for as long as possible.

Invest in some quality airtight containers for things like baking ingredients, cereals, and other things that can stale quickly. If you buy loose food items from farmer's markets or bulk bins at stores like Whole Foods, reusable containers are especially important to have in your kitchen.

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5. Start composting.

Every day, a large amount of what you throw into the trash could be composted and returned to the earth. If you have a bin and some extra space, you can easily start a compost that could feed back into your garden. Your excess food won't go to waste, your garden will be full of nutrients and you can feel better about your impact on the planet. Win, win, win.

6. Learn to repair rather than discard.

When was the last time you repaired something broken rather than throwing it away to purchase a new one? Can't remember? Same. But buying a few high-quality items and repairing them when necessary is so much better for the planet than buying loads of cheap, disposable stuff.

The next time a strap pops off of a tank top or a lamp stops working, spend a few minutes to see if it's fixable, rather than throwing it in the garbage and ordering a new one.

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7. Cancel unnecessary mail.

If your mailbox is overloaded with catalogs and junk mail each day, take a few minutes to cancel subscriptions and stop unsolicited junk mail. It can be as simple as going online or picking up the phone to be removed from a mailing list. It's a bit of an inconvenience, sure, but your coffee table will be less cluttered and the amount of paper waste you produce will be cut significantly.

8. Stop using disposable plates.

Even if washing the dishes is the bane of your existence, the waste created by paper plates and plastic utensils isn't worth it. Stop resorting to paper and plastic and get those hands dirty.

9. And at the very least, stop buying plastic water bottles, please.

Water bottles and paper coffee cups are huge wastes of material. Buy a durable water bottle and a cute coffee thermos so you can take your beverages wherever you please. You'll find yourself feeling a lot more hydrated and a lot less wasteful.

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1)Reducing waste
2)Affordable and clean energy
3)Clean water and sanitation