April 2019 - The English Times April Newspaper | Page 8

trash that your family is producing, and with
this action, you can also help people who
are socially vulnerable earn money
What should a student do if they need
more eco bags?
In the coming weeks we will be starting to
give the bags to people again. If you lost
yours, just try to look for Gteia.
What do you personally do to have more Is Colégio Santo Agostinho available to
invest in other sustainable actions that
sustainable attitudes?
might be created in the future?
Get deeper with concepts, create
procedures and change attitudes! Stay
alert to excessive consumption of
everything, water... I think consumption may
be one of the most unsustainable things of
Absolutely.
Is there something else that you think
people should know about sustainability?
our time. Obviously we need to consume,
but we have to do it consciously.
Yes. How the impact of individual actions
can compromise or help the environment!
If someone has other sustainable ideas,
with whom should he/she speak?
The GTEIA of our unit has several members:
Margareth Ambrósio and Maristela, from
Educação Infantil e Fundamental. Besides
them, we count on Vânia and Camila, workers
from the Communication department, Udmea
and Celimar, administrative support, and
Clovis Oliveira, the director of our unit.
PLASTICS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
MIGUEL MARTINS
and those are not unlimited. If we keep
using those materials like we are, they are
items like juice, açai, fruit salad and cake. going to end faster than they should; we
A lot of students buy those and there is have to slow this process. Also, you release
one huge problem with them: they’re pollutants in the air in the process of turning
made of plastic. Students use it once and fossil fuels into plastic, and those pollutants
already throw it in the trash, in a school can cause diseases.
with more than 2500 students; it
In 2015, 381 million tonnes of plastic was
represents a lot of trash, plastic trash in produced worldwide, and since a big part
this case. of it represents one use products, a lot of it
To start, plastic is made from fossil fuels,
ends up in the oceans or in landfills, and it’s
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Santo Agostinho should stop using
plastic cups and bowls in the cafeteria for