Currently we are still in the preparationphase of our project. in the future we will communicate with our collaboration partners via whatsapp and zoom. The main language will be English but if needed Italian will also be used.
Our projectgoal is that people start to shopp plasticfree.
To achieve this, we first need to evaluate how much plastic is currently being purchased and whether people are willing to spend a little more money to buy plasticfree. After that, we will try to sew fabric bags from fabric scraps and send them to our collaboration partners so that they can go shopping with them. Our goal is that even after our project, the people who have participated in our project, read our report, or heard from it choose to shopp with fabric bags etc. and reduce the use of plastic while shopping.
shop judiciously, shop plasticfree
Names of collaboration team members:
Team from Wetzikon (Zurich): Leara & Jasmina
Team from Kerala (India):
Team from Borgo Valsugana (Italy):
Research Question:
- Is it possible to not use plastic for your shopping? (link to our post: )
- How much plastic does Indians, italians and Swiss people use for their shoppings?
- What alternatives are there?
Project description, methods/techniques, etc.
- Survey in India, Italy and Switzerland about
>Product: Evaluation
- Search allternatives, and how we can produce them.
>Product: produce some allternatives (one kid per family)
- All the families should collect their plastic waste over a certain period of time. Afterwards they should use our "shopping kid" over the same period of time.
> Comparison
Diverse, e.g. material needed, difficulties
- online plattform for surveys
- material (fabric, glasses, etc.)
- one difficulty could be, that we have to find some sponsors
- an other dfficulty could be the proper understanding
Goal/Result
We want to answer the following question: How much plastic is wastet for shoppings and how could we avert that?
and we want to show how much unnecesarry plastic we use for our purchases.
Alternatives for plastic packaging
Oilcloth / Wachstuch
Cloth bag / Stoffbeutel
Shopping net / Einkaufsnetz
Glas / Einmachgläser
Do you have other ideas? Habt ihr andere Ideen?
We want to find several families in Kerala and a city in Italy and Switzerland who will collaborate with us and only use the produced packaging products for some time.
The culture won't be a big problem because I grew up with the indian culture aswell as with the swiss culture. I know some people in Mala - a small town in Kerala - so it shouldn't be a big problem to find some collaboration partners.
Leara and me would like to find out what packaging alltetnative we have to plastic and how we could produce them.
Then we want to try and produce some here at our school with the help of some other classes. After that we would like to give halfe of the produced packaging products to a village shop nearby and send the other halfe to a shop in Kerala. Then we would like to see how many people would use this products, and if it prevent the waste of plastic
Organise a day on which some divers (maybe you can join) go for e "clean up dive".
Create a butterfly garden or bird sanctuary. it's so fun and you can learn something from it. On top of that it looks very nice.
How about starting a vegetable garden at home?
It's fun, yummy and on top of that good for the environment.
