How to recycle and upcycle

What can I change within a week?

After we started the third module in the GLB course I realized that I am doing many bad habits that contribute to the increase of my carbon footprint. By reading a lot of books and visiting a lot of websites I found out that changing small things in my daily routine will help to reduce my carbon footprint a lot so I started from the smallest and most ridiculous details in my daily life.

Some of the things I did: buying my own shopping bag then by taking it with me whenever I go shopping and using it as reusable shopping bag doing this will reduce the plastic pollution, switching lights off when I leave the room and unplugging my electronic devices when they are not in use by doing this I contributed to energy saving, using my bicycle to go to the Maydan rather than taking the bus that emits gases that cause pollution along with other negative effects.

After doing this I feel proud that I started to leave good effects on the surrounding environment.

See you in the next blog post.

Yazan Ishtyah

Standby is not a solution

As you know, energy consumption is a very huge problem for us. We are using our resources not carefully. So , ı thought how can ı decrease the level of energy consumption for myself. And ı realized that ı use my computer every day and in a day ı use my computer six or seven hours. But , after using my computer , ı dont shut down my computer , ı only close my computer’s cover. I learned that closing a computer instead of standby is a very important way to decrease use of energy. So, ı closed my computer whenever ı didnt use my computer. At the end of the week , ı saved 15% of energy only doing this.

Vertical Gardens

Vertical garden project is a new approach for recycling. As you know, in cities, there are not enough green places. Plants are important for our life and we can’t live without them. In this project, we are using old bottles such as plantation areas.

This is a really new idea and it is becoming bigger and bigger each day. With this project help, we will reuse old bottles and it will reduce use of production of bottles.

Additionally, it will provide a chance to create a new green site. The plants which are grow in these bottles will not be different from the normal plants. In addition, our cities will be more esthetic because bottles are looking so good. These plants will produce oxygen and oxygen is so important for continuity of life.

At the end, this project provides lots of advantages in various areas. İf it will become more popular; we believe this project will have a very good impact on ecology.