Project category
7.Environmental Awareness
Project Title
More Recycling, Better Future.
Research Subject
More ways to make junk into gold by reuse,reduce,replenish,restore,recycle.
Description of "Our Community"
Taipei Municipal Linong Elementary School has been built in Guandu Plain, Beitou District. Guandu Plain is on the edge of Taipei Basin. It’s an open terrain and far from the populated down town area. Taipei City Government has decided to locate one of incinerators in this area (The other one is located in Neihu District). The government hopes that this is a solution to the problems caused by burying waste in landfills. At the same time, Locals who are interested in recycle business begin to set up their collecting and distributing centers in this area because that most of farms had already been abandoned. Recently, it has been reported that sportswear made from recycled plastic in Taiwan has won the international recognition and made a lot of profit from exportation. As to this point, the recycling factories in Beitou have made a certain contribution to the relevant industry. Also, in this old neighborhood, residents tend to be more conservative and frugal. That’s why there are quite a lot shops which run the business of repairing clothes, clocks, watches, and electronic appliances. Not only they have owned excellent skills to give new life to those items, but also have successfully extended those items’ expiration date. Reuse is truly an issue we have to think about it seriously. If we can continue using the existent resources, we don’t need to overexploit our precious natural wealth. How to respect the nature and our planet is an important subject for us.
Summary of Our Project
There is an Chinese old saying, “The nature was born to nourish the life of human being, but human being was not born to pay back.” According to the essence of Taoism, human being comes from nature, and is always the part of nature. We cannot live without the nature, how we can despise what the nature gives us. High technology brings us a whole new life in 21 century; however, we don’t really approach the nature but even farther. In most developed countries, a large proportion of food has been dumped after expiration date in supermarkets. Can you imagine that those dumped food are able to feed people living in some other underdeveloped countries? Apart from the problem above, a lot of articles for daily use have been abandoned for the reasons of old-fashioned. These two phenomena cause the overexploitation. People tend to use brand new products, but our earth could not afford that anymore.
Our school aims to use the power of education to recall the old Chinese custom of thrift. “Respect the nature and cherish what we already have” is the main subject we will focus on. It not only can reduce the economic burden of every family, but also can let us do our best to protect our planet. To let students understand throwing broken articles into incinerators is not the only way. Actually, “repair and reuse” is another solution. As the locals in Beitou, we have responsibility to do the research. We will discuss the local issues such as, “incinerator, the business of recycle and repairs”.
Research Method
Our research methods include interview, observation, questionnaires, and documentation. In order to have experience-based learning, we will design activities for students as well. In the end, we will set up a website for sharing our research outcome. We hope that students can understand the importance of the old saying, “Respect the nature and cherish what we already have” through engaging students in relevant activities and uniting with community resources.
Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home: 20%～50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom: none
C. Connection speed used in the classroom: dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet: more than 6
Problems We Had Overcome
1、Experience
In the "good environmental Life" campaign, we use a variety of things to reuse recycled "waste oil" "umbrella cloth" "Kitchen," "green toys" "flea market", etc., found life insignificant items, everyone ingenuity and creativity under the regeneration items, paid a new life, not only to enhance the value of goods, to make life interesting and environmentally-friendly.
2、Interview
The figures visit there in the land of the big push hands, repair industry and recycling industry, as many as twenty people, in interviews and records up to the time spent. Apart from interviews, is also involved in a variety of work experience. During the visit, most recyclers do not want to accept the camera and access, through the efforts to find a few, though not many of their income, but also for environmental protection Lingrenganpei they silently effort.
3、Gathing Data
Most of this information by searching the Internet and newspapers compilation, while searching in internet and newspapers when, although a lot of information, but to comply with this theme, and discuss only one filter for each set of data integration, the teacher also reminds us that we must Notes source provenance, respect intellectual property rights.
4、Records
The event visit the most, so it took a lot of time in the proposed issue, record, long access times, the content too bad record, recording sound files is unclear or too small to become the chronicler of greatest distress, if insufficient information also telephone access additional information again.
5、Website
The advantage of the end of winter and to create web pages using software usually learned in class, first make photo editing and text layout, the lunch break, the teacher and then add special effects, automation and grammar courses, usually found on the computer class that is fun, but when the content too, still feel a little pressure, but I hope we can create beautiful pages.
Our Project Sound Bite
Economic prosperity, well-developed information network, everyone can buy anything you want, but in this rich environment, whether the thinking, attitude of caring for living things love objects come to life, what they need to buy, broken can be repaired, recycling can be reused to make full use of materials. Earth's resources will have been exhausted, when, and how to give our future and our children and grandchildren the same environment, or destroyed the land, we work together! "Little things make green" hope it is not a slogan, but the implementation in everyone's life.
2015 Li-Nong Elementary School , Taipei , Taiwan - Recycle Pioneer
wwh@cc.lnes.tp.edu.tw