How green are you?
Results
Basics
The survey was done to learn about
• Recycling in our countries
• Students’ attitude
• Knowledge in selectivity
Plastic Project
• Time:
December 2013
• participants:
final year bilingual
chemistry students
• supervising teacher:
Edina Tóth
Task list:
• Recycling in general
• Study of a given plastic
• Article
• Question sheet with
answers
• Creative work of free
choice
Learning outcomes
Poster of PB group
Please recognize the Bakelite
structure!
After the project
• A re-take of the survey was planned
• In their projects they covered all the topics
which were unclear for them earlier on
• After the project: the re-take in not suitable for
comparison
• In April: re-take round for the participating
class to see what is left in their minds
• For Budapest meeting: results presented
Result
The places of the filling in of a
questionnaire
1. CENFIM, PORTUGAL
2. Petrik Lajos Vocational School of Chemistry,
Budapest, HUNGARY
3. Gobetti Marchesini - Casale, Turin, ITALY
The time of filling
•2013 May- 2014 January
Participants
Italian
students
174
Portugal
students
67
Hungarian
students
284

525
GENDER
ITA
female
male
not answer
HUN
POR
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
not answer
23 and older
AGED
POR
HUN
ITA
average
17,74
16,79
16,32
22
21
ITA
20
HUN
POR
19
18
17
16
15
14
14 younger
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Questionnaire
• 23 question
– 12 simple choice
– 10 multiple choice
– 2 open-ended (short answer,
number)
And further information for
the survey
%
1. WHAT IS WASTE?
80,00
70,00
67,02
60,00
50,00
40,00
46,27
30,00
32,84
20,00
10,00
0,00
POR
HUN
ITA
7. What is recycling?
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
84,03
87,23
66,67
POR
HUN
Problems ? Language
ITA
?
a) It means the use of the product for
the same purpose or activity
without relevant physical
intervention
b) The reinsertion of a by-product or
waste into the original
technological process
c) The reinsertion of a by-product or
waste into a technological process
different from the original
d) A process of salvage (utilization
of wastes) in which the wastes
are converted into products or
material either for the original
task or any other purpose
Which are hazardous wastes?
POR
HUN
40
%
30
a) paper
b) Voltaic/
Galvanic cell
c) paint
d) plastic
e) oily waste
f) colored glass
20
10
0
AVERAGE
POR
HUN
1,75
2,27
NOT
1
2
The number of good answers
3
Which are hazardous wastes?
VoltaicGalvanicc
Paint
Oilywaste
%
Coloredglass
90
Paper
90
Plastic
60
60
30
30
0
0
Voltaic
Galvan
icc
Paint
Oilywa
ste
Colore
dglass
Paper
POR
N
HU
ITA
Plastic
Which are hazardous wastes?
Good answers
%
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
POR
10
ITA
HUN
0
Voltaic/Galvanic cell
paint
oily waste
Which are hazardous wastes?
BAD ANSWERS
% 14
12
10
8
6
POR
4
ITA
2
HUN
0
paper
plastic
colored glass
Summary /Statements
• From all countries at least 100 pieces of filled
questionnaire would be needed.
• Should fill it in on everybody's own mother
tongue
• It would be necessary to send all of the results
Overall evalution work cannot start without the complete
collection of all independent little answers!