About our project

I'm the leader of Zero Garbage. I had the idea of Zero garbage, I liked the idea because the garbage is a serious problem. Additional I search information to have a good project.
Our project is growing in a variety of projects that essentially take unwanted trash and convert it into usable energy.

Why?
Because when we throw our garbage away, the garbage goes to landfills. Landfills are those big hills that you go by on an expressway that stink. They are full of garbage. The garbage is then sometimes burned. This sends an enormous amount of greenhouse gasses into the air and makes global warming worse.

Some companies are trying to solve the problem. IST Company create The Green Energy Machine can use a building’s trash and convert it into heat and energy. This invention will not only cut utility costs, but also reduce the amount that needs to be spent on trash collection. The unit will convert 95% of the trash into energy while the other 5% is ash. Others companies transform the garbage in oil.

Certificates

Comments in some blogs

I visited 3 blogs of my classmates and these are very nice. You can follow the links bellow to see them

Laura's Blog http://romerolaura19.blogspot.com/
Comment:
http://romerolaura19.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-love-my-planet-and-you.html?showComment=1257170974563#c7815547310079985489


Pedro's Blog http://ilovyou-pedro.blogspot.com/
Comment:
http://ilovyou-pedro.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-stop-climate-change.html?showComment=1257777926035#c1967916236692920675

Miguel's Blog http://thespaceofmiguel.blogspot.com/
Comment:
http://thespaceofmiguel.blogspot.com/2009/11/second-life-new-and-different-world.html?showComment=1257778575270#c7582683031060938132

About our proyect

Does Garbage Have A Future?

One of the areas of mounting concern on the Planet is the huge amount of 'single use' plastic and paper garbage that is being discarded in landfills or incinerated. It is becoming very clear that humanity needs to reduce the proliferation of garbage in order to create a sustainable solution for the Planet. For many, the lifestyle change to support significant reductions of garbage on Earth may sound radical, but there appears to be no other alternative that will generate a solution that is sustainable.

To significantly reduce worldwide garbage society will need to eliminate most of the 'one time use' packaging, implement 100% recycling programs, design products to use recyclable materials, and concentrate on the utilisation of sustainable organics (wood, wool, cotton, silk, etc) in manufactured products.

Currently, the world response to solving the problems of garbage is only 5% of what it needs to be in order to protect the Planet. One alternative could be to sit back and do nothing about garbage, but this is not a feasible approach anymore, even from an economic perspective. Many countries are running out of landfill sites to dispose of their garbage, so a solution has to be found, and necessity is becoming the economic driver for this.

Implementing a global conservation approach would probably reduce garbage by 40-60%. Significant emphasis on the implementation of minimalist packaging for consumer products, fast food, groceries, etc. would produce huge reductions in garbage. The ultimate goal is that when you finish an activity like eating, or cleaning your house, or buying a consumer appliance, the only garbage is organic and therefore biodegradable, and the containers / shipping pallets that were used are made from reusable glass or plastic that is highly recyclable/washable for use again at the supermarket or store. This means that standardised reusable packaging and containers need to be developed, and much more bulk distribution of products to the consumer has to be the way forward. More emphasis on corner stores for fresh local baked goods, local produce, local meats would also reduce shipping waste and packaging.

In the near future, the clear winners in the corporate world will be the companies that can design their products or services to be profitable and at the same time have close to zero impact on the environment. Those CEO's and Managing Directors that don't push their organisations in the direction of product or service offerings that eliminate or reduce garbage and pollution will find themselves without any markets to sell to. Society's realisation of the magnitude of change required to save the Planet, and the urgent need to find companies that can respond to this, is creating a new economic reward system and a new group of significant growth companies.



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It is becoming very clear that humanity needs to reduce the proliferation of garbage in order to create a sustainable solution for the Planet
Words:
It: Used as the subject of an impersonal verb
Clear: Containing nothing
humanity: Humans considered as a group; the human race.


2° Sentence
For many, the lifestyle change to support significant reductions of garbage on Earth may sound radical
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Change: To cause to be different
Support: To give aid or encouragement to a person or cause
Garbage: Refuse; trash.

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More emphasis on corner stores for fresh local baked goods, local produce, local meats would also reduce shipping waste and packaging.
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Produce: To create by physical or mental effort
Corner: The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner
Waste: To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly

2° Sentence
This means that standardised reusable packaging and containers need to be developed, and much more bulk distribution of products to the consumer has to be the way forward
Words
Need: To be under the necessity of or the obligation to
Products: Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process
Distribution: The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed

You-Turn the Earth!

PrintSend to a friend Do you want our leaders to do something about global warming? The biggest chance we have is the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December. But our leaders are only going to act if we demand it. YOU can help turn things around.

Join the global movement to save the climate. YoU-Turn the Earth!


Our best chance to take action against global warming is coming up in December, when the nations of the world gather for a UN Climate summit in Copenhagen.

We want world leaders to be there personally.

We want them to make the right deal for the climate.

And we have a checklist by which their success can be measured:

◦Make sure emissions peak in 2015 and decrease as rapidly as possible towards zero after that
◦Developed countries must make cuts of 40 percent on their 1990 carbon emisisons by 2020
◦Developing countries must slow the growth of emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020, with support from industrialised nations
◦Protect tropical forests with a special funding mechanism - forests for climate
◦Replace dirty fossil fuel energy with renewable energy and energy efficiency
◦Reject false solutions like nuclear energy