Monday, 14 November 2011

Day 4, Ideal recycling model

Presentation on garbage sorting in Greece
This day we had a presentation on garbage sorting held by the participants about different ways Italians, Greeks, Norwegians and Latvians use to deal with their waste: Greeks don’t separate the rubbish and put everything in a big bin then send it to the recycling factories. At the same time Italians have big differences in the different areas of the country, they have big problems dealing with garbage in the south while in the North they have an organized system for recycling by separating all the garbage in the houses, Latvians also have some recycling factories made for paper and medicine, but the whole system of garbage recycling doesn’t work for everyone, so they need to fresh up this system. On the other hand Norwegians seem to be the more advanced on this topic and they have a natural approach to recycle since they have been educated to separate waste.
Afterwards groups made of participants of different countries gathered to underline the SWOT.
Ideal model


Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats were detected in order to create an ideal model of recycling.
In the end all the groups agreed on the fact that to have a better model people should start by educating children and motivating people.