Cedar schoollandfillbvi

THE HORRORS OF LANDFILLS

Slide show made by Makaio Garrin, Helene Carter and Kai TurnbullGrade 5

If the population keeps growing, this is what our planet will look like.

IS THIS WHAT WE WANT???

    WHY ARE WE DOING

THIS?

There are a lot of people producing a lot of  waste   

"Why?"

NaturalResources

Goods and

Services

Pollution, Wasteand

EnvironmentalDisturbances

Waste Management in the BVI

A Graph To Show The Growth Of Waste Within The BVI In 1995-

2005 

Waste Management in the BVI

●The incinerator we have is too small - thats why we open burn our trash 

●St John is complaining about the emissions

●Tortola, is 21.5 square miles and hilly 

●Not a lot of space to put a landfill so Government chose an incinerator

Waste Management Problems in the BVI

●Visitors and residents produced 100-150 tons per day in season

 ●Incinerator on Tortola can only burn 40 tons per day

 ●Cannot handle glass or metals or hazardous

substances  ●Except waste is burned behind the incinerator

causing toxic emissions  ●New incinerator will burn about 100 tons per day.

IMAGES OF THE INCINATOR'S CHAMBERS

Main chamber Upper chamber

Landfills in the BVI

●4 unlined landfills on Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Jost van Dyke and Anegada.

●Environmental impacts from leachate ●Virgin Gorda state land + 10 yrs●Jost Van Dyke private land - 1 yr ●Anegada state land 20 years. Public pressure to

relocate away from residential zones. ●Tortola – current site full ●New landfill on Tortola would require special

engineering US$12 million 5 yrs

Open burning at Pockwood Pond

Landfills in the BVI

Anegada Landfill

WE NEED TO ACT NOW!

WE NEED TO REDUCE,REUSE AND RECYCLE

REDUCE by...●Composting at home and school

 ●Grow your own vegetables

 ●Say "NO" to styrofoam

 ●Take your own reusable bags to the store

 ● Refill water containers

 ●Go paperlessothink before you printouse evite.com

REUSE by...●Using reusable oplatesocups ocutlery oshopping bagsowater bottles

●reusing wrapping paper and bags ●reuse old jars for freezing food

 ●using both sides of paper 

 ●Donating things you no longer need to charity

- You can use the same plastic bag over again instead of throwing it away.

RECYCLE

There is currently no recycling in the BVI.  What you can do is: ●write a letter to Government requesting recycling

 ●support non profit Green VI who are working on a

recycling plan www.greenvi.org

What we did!

Landfill group actions

To see how much Syrofoam waste Cedar produces we collected andsorted lunch waste for 4 days

Action 1: Styrofoam art 

  In four days we

collected 59 Styrofoam products

 That is about

3,000 styrofoam

products in a school year!

Our Sculpture

Action 2: Make Cedar Styrafoam free

●The action will be finalised next year 

●Carol has already switched to plates for high school - thank you!        BEST OPTION!!!

 ●Replace the styrofoam containers with biodegradable

products.  

●Greentech donated selection for lunch ladies to test  

●Assess product and price

●We hope this action is successful and that it can be shared with other schools.

Biodegradable containers●cause less emissions when burned

 ●do not become litter

 ●can be composted

 ●contain no harmful chemicals

THINK OF HOW YOU CAN HELP

AFTERBEFORE

BE A SUPER HERO

EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DO FOR THE EARTH IS

BIG....

Remember ....               Going Styrofoam Free

HELP THE EARTH AND YOURSELF

You're welcome

THANK YOU

 MANKIND

 The World Is Ours

A Quick YouTube To Recap

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CREDITSMs. Wilkinson

Ms. Clark

Charlotte McDevitt

Abigail O'Neal

Our Fantastic Helpers at Lunch Our class

And Parents 

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING

ANY QUESTIONS?