Concept for reducing plastic waste in other countries
Names of collaboration team members:
Team from Switzerland: Liranda & Angela
Team from Kosovo: relatives of Liranda
Team from Croatia: relatives of Angela
Our research question (wider question):
How much plastic waste is created during the day in different countries compared to Switzerland?
Refined questions:
- How much plastic items (bags, wrapping etc.) does grocery shopping accumulate?
- Is there awareness of plastic pollution and the impact it has on the environment?
- Does the government do enough to tackle plastic pollution?
- Is there any willingness to reduce plastic pollution themselves?
Our answers:
- Exchange experiences and opinions with the people living abroad
- Letting the people abroad take part in a survey as well as make a list with the wrapped food they bought during the day
- Eventually research on the internet
- For the comparison to Switzerland: Checking our own behavior in our everyday lives
Diverse:
In order to create our survey, we will either must set up a website or use an app/platform
Goal:
We want to find out, how much these people are informed about plastic waste and the environmental pollution in their country. Since we are going to make an effort to reduce our own plastic consumption, we want to try to encourage them to reduce theirs as well.
We created a audiovisual presentation of our Project for potential collaboration partners. Click on the following link to watch the video: ........... (the previous link wasn't the direct link to our vimeo-video, so we will make sure to post the correct link soon)
Project idea:
Reducing plastic waste
Project partners:
Liranda Kurtesi, Angela Diljak
Collaboration:
We thought of collaborating with our relatives who live in other countries. There should be all ages included. So Liranda is going to ask her relatives in Kosovo and Angela is also going to ask hers in Croatia if they would want to take part in our project.
Expected contribution from the people living abroad:
Since we thought of setting up an online survey, we would like them to take part in it to answer the following questions:
- Are you aware of plastic pollution and the impact it has on the environment?
- How many plastic bottles do you buy/use per week?
- How many plastic bags do you/ your parents use/buy per week?
- Have you seen any documentaries that show the affects plastic waste has on the environment?
- Do you think that plastic pollution affects you or just the environment?
- Do you help at all with reducing plastic pollution?
- How much plastic pollution is there in the area that you live in?
- Do you think the government is doing enough to tackle plastic pollution?
In addition to that, we would like them to make a list with the wrapped food they bought throughout one whole day.
Project: Reducing plastic waste
Team: Angela Diljak & Liranda Kurtesi
Effects:
We want people to realize how much plastic waste is created during the day and that it effects us negatively.
Methods:
We want to inform people on how much plastic is used for ready-made foods and how all of the plastic effects our environment. Also we're going to make an effort to reduce our personal use of it to set a good example.
Strategy:
We're going to research how many greenhouse gases are created for the production of plastic packaging, then we're going to write a report on how that effects our environment. After that we're going to monitor how much waste we create ourselves and try to find ways to reduce that amount. We might do a survey to see how many people buy wrapped food to see how bad the situation really is.
Audience:
Students and working people that tend to eat out a lot. But really anyone is welcome to read our article.