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ENO project Uroš Žvan, OS Gorje

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The place we live
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REPORT - PAPER IN OUR SCHOOL - 2002

PAPER CONSUMPTION
PAPER RECYCLING
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

PAPER CONSUMPTION

Paper consumption
Students in grade 5 prepared a questionnaire about paper consumption between students. They decided to weigh all the paper stuff that students carry in their bags. So they weighed students' bags in class 1, class 5 and class 8.

class	Notebooks kg	Books kg	Course books kg	All together kg
Class 1	1	0,25	0,50	1,75
Class 5	2	1	1	4
Class 8	3	1,5	2,4	6,9
Sum	6	2,75	3,90	12,65

After measuring, they estimated the total weight of books in our school (multiply it as total amount of students in our school).

There are 550 students in our school.
The average weight of paper per student is: 4 kg. So 550 X 4 kg = 2200 kg.
The weight of all paper things students have is: 2200 kg. So we can say that in one school year our students have and use about 2200 kg paper things.

2. Paper types:

Students walked around school and observed what is made of paper and what it is used for. They listed:

Books, notebooks, sheets of paper with exercises, tissues, boxes, bulletin boards notices, school documentation books, books for marks, grades, plans, maps, tickets for lunch, calendars, students' artworks, paper towels, money, maps, pictures, photos, teachers' books, books for reading, posters, handouts, paper trash.

Then they tried to find out how much of different types of paper is consumed per year. They went to the headmaster and secretary and together they listed:

Type	Weight ( kg )/ pieces	student
Paper for photocopies	250 000	455
Coloured papers	4000	7
Paper A3	1500	3
Cardboard - art	600	1
Drawing paper - art	300	0,5
Paper towels	3500 packets	6
Toilet paper	2400	4
Paper napkins	2500 (50x500)	4
Newspapers and magazines	35/50	0,1
Different paper things	12 kg	21 g
photos	250	0,5
letters	4500	8
cards	350	0,6
Documentation books	35	0,06
Tickets for lunch	9000	7,2
Lunch cards	4000	7
Wrapping folders	3000	5,5
Folders for paper - carton	450	1

PAPER RECYCLING

The fourth group did a research about what happens to different paper types after consumption at our school. They found out:

Type	Use after consumption
Copies	They cut them, burn, throw them into trash bins
Notebooks	keep them for a year - tests, then - cut them
Toilet paper	After use it goes into sewage system
Drawing paper	They keep them, burn, throw them into bins
Magazines, newspapers	They throw them into paper bins, use them for protecting desks at craft and art,
Paper towels	They throw them into paper bins
Old useless books	Take them to Dinos, where they recycle them

Our school buys paper at a local store Grafika Soca. Unfortunately just a smaller amount of paper is environment-friendly (towels, toilet paper, some notebooks, paper for copies, wrapping folders.).

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

We went through the data about paper and within our group discussed and made a list of five realistic ways to improve our paper consumption in our school.

1. We can use course books (the school buys them) for more than 3 years. But we have to use them more carefully and try to wrap them well and not to write in them.

2. We can reduce the number of photocopies and tests - specially tests J .

3. We can arrange collecting old paper, prepare rewards for those who collect more - excursions, competitions

4. We can try to use recycled paper wherever possible. Use paper used sheets for drafts (on the other side). We often have notebooks that still have some empty sheets at the end. We can use them for exercises or drafts.

5. There should be more advertisements on TV and radio about collecting paper for recycling.