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Sharing Our Planet

Maritime Safety and

Pollution

Presenters:

Paulo Flecha

Kevin Bengtsson

José Suarez

Leo Sabó

Tanay Agarwal

Anne Groth

Graded GIN Plastic Group

ProposalReduce plastic in Graded campus

Intro – why plastic?

Everywhere around us we can see, use and consume plastic

Most foods bought, products, etc.

“It costs US$ 4,000 to recycle 1 ton of plastic bags and you get a product that can be sold on

commodities market for US$ 32. We must stop this

use because recycling is not viable. […]

Every year, 6.4 million tons of plastic are dumped

into the ocean. This is the same as an extension

of 3,200 kilometers of trucks fully loaded with

garbage.” – Ocean Crusaders

Our primary focus on cups and bottles

Stand up for

quick

visualization

Pacific Trash Vortex

Just to give a sense of what we mean:

Example Graph

First Proposal

AND stop selling plastic

bottles in the snack bar

How?

Give 1 Graded reusable

aluminum bottle to every

student and faculty

Add on Aluminum is ideal, because it is now known that

reusing plastic bottles may cause severe health problems

First Design Idea

Final Design

First Issues

Bad luck Brian

Water fountains take too

long/unpractical

Graded bottle doesn’t fit

underneath any water

machine at Graded

Took out plastic on hottest

days of São Paulo

First Possible Solution

New Problem

Ideal machine (Brastemp)

Subscription

Graded administration prefers a single, upfront

cost, rather than an ongoing monthly cost

New proposal - research

Option 1 Option 2

1st Step

Bring in 2 units for testing of Option #2

New Issues

Water button doesn’t stop correctly

Water falls on floor and makes a mess

(if not used properly)

Solution Attempt #1

Instructional Video Attempt

Fail – only minor improvement

Reconsider solutions

Bucket underneath

Rug

Cut the water exit

Buy machine Option #1

Buckets aren’t aesthetically pleasing

Modifying machine wasn’t approved

Option #1 wasn’t judged practical

SOLUTION

Graded rugs underneath

Are currently working well

More Problems

Sparkling water

Can’t be sold in snack bar because of plastic bottle

Solution #1

Turn water into sparkling water in seconds

Can be made into soda pop if added with flavor

Solution # 2

Glass bottles for sparkling water

Expensive

Had to have special

disposable place around

school in order to recycle its glass

Small children could

possibly get hurt with these bottles

More problems

Gatorade/Powerade is sold in plastic bottles

Not easily accessible in São Paulo (refills)

Students would need to either have to use

the same bottle for Gatorade and water,

or have a spare bottle

Unpractical

Gatorade still is sold in snack bar until

further changes are implemented

Solution

Disposable Cups Issue When visitors come around, they don’t have the

obligation to always have water bottles

We can’t have disposable plastic cups

Could make available reusable plastic cups

But quantities wouldn’t be high, and we’d have to

wash them constantly

Solutions Water fountains

Don’t need any cups

Eco-friendly disposable cups

Paper used in fabrication come from reforested

wood and is produced with 100% of virgin fibers

Has brownish color because it dispenses whitening

chemicals that are bad for ones health

Progress so far

Remove plastic cups from campus

Bring in practical way of filling in water

Disposable cups for visitors who don’t have bottles?

In progress

Stop selling plastic bottles in snack bar

Gatorade?

Still being sold

Sparkling water?

In progress

Quick activity

3 volunteers

Try your best to compress a plastic bottle into a

small piece

Roughly find area

Now imagine this, times 564 billion

Assuming an average bottle has a 3.5 cm radius

and a height of 20 cm, the space taken up of

ONE bottle could be up to 770 cm3

770 cm3 x 564 billion bottles a year = A lot

434,280,000,000,000 cm3 or 434 TRILLION cm3 of

an extension of plastic used only in bottles per

year

When we say “exterminate

plastic…”

Ok, so now you guys and girls get a rough idea of what NOT to do

On a more serious note…

Repercussion

Initially, ideas might be rejected when presented

Gradually are accepted by our community

Still had some repercussion

Our duty

Make people understand the reasons

Why are we showing all these methods?

So you can apply them and create a better

community that surrounds you

Our goal “Be the change you

want to see in the

world.”

Think globally, act

locally

Contribute your drop

We can do this, but

most importantly, you

can do this

Thank YouThe Graded GIN Plastic Group

Sources Pictures:

Brastemp http://www.mundodastribos.com/purificador-de-agua-brastemp-preco.html#

Bebedouro http://www.latinanet.com.br/produtos/Default.aspx?ID=2&Tipo=Familia

vitapluhttp://mcpurificadores.com.br/imagens/produtos/Vita-Plus---Latina--_5ccb5c18ae514c6.jpg

latina atual

http://www.comprafacil.com.br/images/400/LATINA_Purificador_de_Agua__238207_1_400.jpg

bottled water http://oceancrusaders.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BottledWater1.jpg

scumbag hat http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/009/089/scumbag.jpg

soda stream 1 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81lVq2Ra94L._SL1500_.jpg

soda stream 2 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81lVq2Ra94L._SL1500_.jpg

Denied http://www.webdesign-guru.co.uk/icon/wp-content/uploads/denied.gif

Perrier

http://popsop.ru/wp-content/uploads/perrier1.jpg

san pelegrino

http://static.productreview.com.au/pr.products/san-pellegrino-500ml_4d0830bea7504.jpg

Gatorade

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XGx_8RcUox8/TYbemhxdLRI/AAAAAAAAAEY/4WxuIO4s6Zg/s1600/stormsafety-jug.jpg

ecopo 1

http://www.blogdasaude.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ecopo2.jpg

ecopo 2

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZJYKm8trNR8/TBa8zIR3gbI/AAAAAAAAADo/2CxhBOj15lg/s1600/foto5.jpg

Gandhi

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wxuIZQeWmCE/TR1X-oXLyRI/AAAAAAAAALc/PC315KUprFA/s1600/1948_mkgandhi.jpg

Sources:

http://environment.about.com/od/healthenvironment/a/plastic_bottles.htm about

http://www.container-recycling.org/facts/plastic/data/petsaleswasterec.htm CRI

http://oceancrusaders.org/plastic-crusades/plastic-statistics/ ocean crusader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Lmj-JmKhI&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6LvdsyJ4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4dKwHOfd2dk