It is always beneficial to know how other foreign countries deal with the daily waste of materials differently. Probably individuals can get some insights, which could help them in promoting knowledge, skills and increasing the possibilities of how to reuse wasted things and to save more energy for the future. As most people know, in the education field, educators and students need a great amount and a variety of materials to make their teaching and learning more interesting and more creative.
Canada is a good example of providing those used materials to teachers, students, and artists by the Artsjuncktion. According to Garnet (2014), the author of the article, “Recycling Material Culture”, “The Artsjunktion is a free service located in the downtown core of Toronto that accepts, sorts, and distributes all forms of material culture, providing an environmentally friendly source for art materials” (p. 2). Actually, by the service of the Artsjunkson, schools saved the budgets of purchasing educational supplies for the art class (2014), and students learned how to save the resource by creatively using it. However, the Artsjunkson cannot handle all waste that people produce from everyday life.
Sweden imports waste from European-neighbors as fuel to give a rich supply to the country-wide energy needs (The Swedish Recycling Revelation, 2015). Apparently, it is both a solution of saving energy and reducing waste to pollute the environment. Therefore, understanding disposing trash from a global view, individuals could really get a wider thought toward solving current environmental problems that are challenging humans.
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References
Garnet, D. (2014). Recycling material culture: Environmentalism, free art supplies, and Artsjunktion. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 15(2). Retrieved from http://www.ijea.org/v15n2/.
The Swedish Recycling Revelation. (2015). Retrieved June 9, 2016, from Swedish Institute: https://sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/
