A survey “What do you throw away? Think again!” was conducted in students’ local community. Students asked their family and friends what they threw away most often. They also observed the waste management at their homes for two weeks. Then students took part in the survey about the waste produced in students’ communities on a weekly basis.

The main objective of the survey was finding the most recurrent type of waste and estimating the amount of the waste.

Once the data is collected students can think about ways of reducing waste in households and schools.

The survey in Poland

Students took part in the survey:

What do you throw away? Think again!.pdf

The results of the survey show that plastic is the most recurrent type of waste. Therefore we should promote reducing the use of plastic, reusing food containers and shopping bags, avoiding plastic bags as ways of reducing the amount of waste.

Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, animals and plants through toxic pollutants. It can take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to break down so the environmental damage is long-lasting. The level of knowledge about that should be raised by organising environmental campaigns and preparing online materials that can be widely disseminated.

The survey analysis is here:

Survey analysis.pdf

To raise the level of knowledge about plastic pollution students from Poland created a short story entitled "An adventure of a piece of rubbish"