We just need to know!We just need to know!

Environment Awareness

ByPratima Pandey

Why this presentation?Why this presentation?

We are a part of it!

SOME Env FactsSOME Env FactsEach person in UAE

450 plastic water bottles in a year1

200 kg of paper in a year Global average is 60 kg. India figure - only 9 kg2

2. 5 kg of waste per day or 912 kg per year3

Uses water 550 litres per day ; one of the highest consumption in the world3

1 Bee’ah, as cited in The National (2011) 2 Indonesian Pulp and Paper Association, as cited in Gulf News

(2011)3 Bee’ah (2010)

Credibility of factsCredibility of facts

Source is Bee’ah: In 2011, bagged a 20-year contract to provide waste management services in Sharjah by the Sharjah Municipality (Gulf News, 2011)

Blue and green recycle bins all over the city...installed by Bee’ah

What is the harm…when What is the harm…when Plastics in heaps?Plastics in heaps?

450 Plastic water bottles per person!

Apart from high energy requirement in production (Pacific Institute ,2006)

And Paper…And Paper… 200 kg of paper per person!

1000 kg of paper recycled = 17 trees saved +1,438.5 litres of oil saved (Bee’ah, 2010)

Shade and clean air!

No shade…!

Paper made of

Trees

35 percent

trees felled for paper 1

1 Martin (2011)

And Water…And Water…

Supply LIMITED - We all know that! Limited natural resources in UAE – processed,

desalinized water but NOT WITHOUT A COST

◦ High Power usage (70 percent cost of water is due to desalinization (The National, 2012))

◦ Salt Disposal harms sea-life (Aus. Gov, 2006)◦ Green-house gases emitted (Aus. Gov, 2006)

550 liters of water used by each person DAILY…

What when taps run dry ?This CAN happen. Because…

How can things be better?How can things be better?

Is the hard work worth it?Is the hard work worth it?

Starting a good trend – Feeling of accomplishment

Relief - cleaning homes and not dirtying our bigger home, i.e. Earth.

Save fines (Emirates 247, June 13th, 2012)

If we know the right facts If we know the right facts and ways, we can be and ways, we can be

TREND-MAKERSTREND-MAKERS

Thank You!

Thank You!

SourcesSources (in order of appearance in (in order of appearance in presentation)presentation)

SourcesSources WECF. (n.d.). Dangerous Health Effects of Home

Burning of Plastics and Waste. Retrieved June 4, 2012, from Women of Europe towards a Common Future: http://www.wecf.eu/cms/download/2004-2005/homeburning_plastics.pdf

California Coastal Commission. (CCC,2011). The Problem With Marine Debris. Retrieved June 20, 2012, from California Coastal Commission - Public Education Program: http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/marinedebris.html

Pacific Institute. (2006). Bottled Water and Energy. Retrieved June 6, 2012, from http://www.pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustainability/bottled_water/bottled_water_and_energy.html

Martin, S. (2011, September 10). Paper Chase. Retrieved June 6, 2012, from Ecology Global Network: http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/10/paper-chase/

SourcesSources The National. (2012, January 19). Abu Dhabi raises

green profile. Retrieved June 6, 2012, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/abu-dhabi-raises-green-profile

Australian Government. (2006). State of the Environment 2006 - Desalination. Retrieved June 6, 2012, from http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/emerging/desal/index.html

Emirates 247. (2012, June 13). Fine up to Dh500 if you waste water in Sharjah. Retrieved June 20, 2012, from http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/fine-up-to-dh500-if-you-waste-water-in-sharjah-2012-06-13-1.462876