B1- RECYCLING by Mercè Clemente https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5 Share some problems and solutions that could be associated with any of these materials or issues en-us 2022-02-16 14:45:55 UTC 2025-10-06 11:26:02 UTC hello@padlet.com METAL & PLASTIC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2053656069 Montse P.
THE PROBLEM: Statistic information in chapter 5 shows us that in 35 years since the first plastic bag had been produced, 1.831,50 bags are used each year for each person (I calculated it above 7.800 million people that are living now on our planet)

THE SOLUTION: No more plastic bags anywhere, anytime, and for any use. Law needs to forbid bag plastic production all over the world.
Fines for non-compliance aren't enough because the producers pass on the cost to the buyer. That's not a solution.

]]> 2022-02-17 17:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2053656069 Nuria https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057566029 PROBLEMS:
- people like to change their mobile phones very often.
- people throw away their broken machines.
- people throw away old things like furniture, books, clothes...
- batteries contain toxic waste.
- oil is difficult to recycle.

SOLUTIONS:
- Our old things can be useful for other people and our broken machines can be repaired. Reusing things is another kind of recycling.
- The light from the sun or vegetable oil can produce energy. Increasing this kind of energy, could help reduce the toxic waste of batteries.

]]> 2022-02-20 18:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057566029 Glass & Paper- Montse B https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057631301 PROBLEMS 

At the beginning of the use of glass, it was an expensive material and people re-used several times, like the milk bottles. Now we use other materials insted of glass and the glass that we use  we don't use again..

SOLUTION:
Maybe one of the best solutions should be to buy things packaged in glass insted of non reciclying materials and when we finish re-using it we can deposit the appropriate bin. Why? Because, for example ,each glass bottle saves one and a half hour to make work a tv.
]]> 2022-02-20 20:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057631301 GLASS IS THE FUTURE vcarpisanz https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057718457
PROBLEM: 

When we go to the supermarket, we can see the plastic packaging is replacing the glass in most of the food products. Apparently, the plastic is cheaper and lighter than the glass. However, the plastic absorbs smells and flavours. This is the reason why it can only be used once. While the glass is more hygienic, durable, and we can see the product inside!

SOLUTION:

We can start with the liquids. Why not have a dispenser of milk, juice, wine…and refill our bottles again and again? The distributors can offer them cheaper because they economise the packaging. But not only the liquids, the fish or the meat could be transported in glass containers that we can put directly in the fridge or the oven. 

]]> 2022-02-20 22:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2057718457 Recycling Metal - Xavi P. https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2059234176 PROBLEMS:
Many things around us are made by metal, therefore we use a lot of metals to built them (cans, techonolgy devides, bridges, cars.
Moreover, some of these metals, as alluminium, are hard and expensive to get it from the earth.

SOLUTIONS:
Metals are easy to reuse and recycle, and they can be recycled many times. So we don't need to extract from the earth those metals.
However it's easy to reuse and recycle metals, we shouldn't waste it. 

We should give metal made things the longest life we can, if not, we would spend what we save on recycling.]]> 2022-02-21 18:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2059234176 Other problems annagallart22 https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2059364606 For recycling there are other materials, different from paper, plastic and glass that need our attention.
One of them are the materials that are made our mobile phones. People in rich countries change their phones very often, because they want a new one. But where is going the old one? Rubbish, forgotten at home, ...? Maybe the solution is to find a new life for it:
- Maybe we can sell or present it to friends, family, ...
- Maybe we can give to NGO, and they will repair and take to poor countries
- Maybe it can be recycled by parts
So, the solutions always is to give it a new life!!!]]> 2022-02-21 20:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2059364606 Metal and plastic https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060283448 PROBLEMS: 
It's difficult and expensive to get aluminium, and it's cheaper to use recycled it.  It's easy to recycle both many times.
Plastic is cheap and light and easy to use . Plastic bags are a real problem in the world, for people and animals. It's not easy to do-
Plastic recycling is and expensive proces.

SOLUTIONS:
Pay off who recycles, and fine the non-recycling.
Our entrerprises needs a change in their package. Could be better not allowing use of plastic, especially in the supermarkets. Not using plastic from the begining.
Use less plastic, going shopping with your own bags.
 ]]> 2022-02-22 10:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060283448 Judit https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060660758 Problem:
Many trees are cut down for paper and as a result birds lose their homes and die, because theu cannot live in the new trees.

Solution:
Each region should have limited the cut down. Also we have to use more digital paper, this will help a lot the trees and the natural environment. ]]> 2022-02-22 14:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060660758 Metal and plastic https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060877998 The main problem is plastic. Mostly because recycling plastic isn't easy and it is produced at a big scale in many different sectors and countries. In my opinion, it is used too often in supermarkets.    

Solutions: big companies and enterprises should start caring about plastic production because they are responsible of the amount of plastic that is created. Finally we can all contribute from home in a smaller scale.                                             ]]> 2022-02-22 16:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2060877998 Mariano https://padlet.com/mcleme6/touugsy1hgyjacc5/wish/2065148166 -People change their mobiles and computers very frequently for newer ones.

Not only we try to keep our gadgets more times, but also changes by fashions.

-Small electrical things only work with batteries which are the objects more contaminate of world.

Engineers must create these objects with free energy and try to re-use with others purposes.

-Today our cars use gasoil, this product is the most polluting agent. 

We try to use other alternative vehicles, for example, bicycles, public transporters or even better walk.

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