By teachers and students ofRiga Jugla Secondary school

February 2014

To introduce with Getlini Eko from Riga, Latvia

To share our educational experience To show other possibilities of recycling for

better future

It is high technology and environmentally friendly ecological waste management company since 1997

They set an example in the production of green renewable energy

Also eco-friendly agriculture and environmental management

In USSR times it used to be just a dump without any care of environment

There were no sorting, cutting up or compressing the waste

All dirty waters flew into Daugava river and the Baltic sea...

Year 1997 – a foundtation of Getlini Eko Involvement of Wold Bank’s credit, GEF

(Global Environmental Facility) and Swedish International Development agency

Non-recyclable waste is deposited in environmentally safe biodegradable cells, which cannot be penetrated by either air or rainwater

Energy

Landfill gas

Electricity (40% electricity, 46% heat)

Greenhouse complex

Sheep farming

20 students split into 4 groups (by lottery method)

1st group – to write a review 2nd group – to make a PowerPoint

presentation 3rd group – to make a game about eco-

issue 4th group – to make a video about Getlini

Eko

There will be only big pile of trash... Nothing interesting or useful to learn... Awful smell... Stinky rubbish mountain... New topic to me! Lots of homeless people

and rats... Very far in unknown direction out of Riga... Some kind of dump...

We will be taught how to sort trash We will be guided through the trash

mountain... Unbearable smell all around...

A big, well organized polygon They produce warmth

I wasn’t expecting that well organized system where everything is planned and none of those made products weren’t forgotten!

I liked their solution for grass mowing by sheep

Very tasty tomatoes from greenhouse! I did like the atmosphere in the conference

room and we were serious Now I will start thinking more serious about

our tidiness...

Find 15 differences in the picture

http://youtu.be/xRXZgizRKxM http://www.jumis.lv/lv/noderiga-

informacija/atkritumu-parstrade/ recycling in Latvia

http://www.vissnotiek.lv/atkritumu-parstrade/ - recycling in Latvia

http://www.zalais.lv/lv/iedzivotajiem/atkritumu-skirosanas-vietu-karte/ - Map of recycling in Latvia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8YILc6J42Y – Glass

Eco Baltia Group is an enterprise which collects, recycles and reproduces plastic

Pet bottle is crushed and shredded into plastic flakes

Plastic flakes are reproduced in plastic granules

95% of produced plastic granules are being exported to China, Panama, Scandinavia e.t.c.

This enterprise is the biggest and most modern in east Europe

More than 45 000 clients in Latvia and abroad

Lower quality granules are made in plastic buckets and other containers

Clear granules are made in clear plastic bottles or saran wrap

White granules are made in polyster which is used for clothes manufacturing

We are proud of possibilities to organise our waste in Latvia

We have talented, creative and hard-working students – our future

Life and this project is really interesting experience for all to learn