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Teacher Gideon’s Waste Audit

December 8, 2021

Triple Ace Presentation

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Landfill Waste: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

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Landfill Waste: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

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Landfill Waste: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

Sorted into 6 piles

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Landfill Waste: Non-Recyclable Packaging

Selected Contents:

  • Crinkly plastic

(tomato container tops)

  • Non-stretching plastic

(ex. cereal bags)

  • Greasy plastics

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Landfill Waste: Multi-material Wrappers

Selected Contents:

  • Metal lined bags

(granola bar wrappers)

  • Crinkly plastics

(candy wrappers)

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Landfill Waste: Labels

Selected Contents:

  • Packing tape
  • Sticky labels

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Landfill Waste: Non-recyclable paper

Selected Contents:

  • Thermal paper

(Receipts)

(Library hold notices)

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Landfill Waste: Consumed items

Selected Contents:

  • Vacuum dust
  • Dryer lint
  • Old CD-ROM
  • Disposable mask
  • Dirty aluminum foil
  • Used kitchen glove

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Landfill Waste: Styrofoam

Selected Contents:

  • Take-out containers
  • Food trays

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Landfill Waste: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

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Mixed Recycling: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

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Compostables: Nov 25 - Dec 6 (12 days)

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Plastics Recycling in 2019

A large portion of the plastic generated is not recycled because there is no system to recycle them.

Source: Canada Plastics Pact

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What can be done about plastics?

Making plastics recyclable is part of the solution. But reducing plastics is the critical part of the solution

Source: Canada Plastics Pact