Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Words that we all know
We might be only children
But we will try, you’ll see.
We recycle what we use,
Separate things and you should too
Glass and paper, plastic, tin
Go in your recycle bin!
We must start now, we can’t wait
Quick, or it will be too late
And we can save this planet
It starts with you and me.
by Class 5.1
WasteServ Malta Ltd. gives priority and great prominence to waste management issues in educational curricula and programmes aimed at reaching out to teachers and school children. Special attention is thus given to waste management issues, together with the promotion of changes in social attitudes and behaviour concerning waste management among young people.
Schools and educators have shown a great commitment towards including waste management in their educational programmes. Around 200 schools in Malta and Gozo have started to separate waste within their premises and every week WasteServ representatives visit schools to carry out interactive, educational talks.
Throughout the past years, WasteServ has also supported EkoSkola by means of sponsorship. The company also offers educational tours at its facilities for students and adults. These are constructive learning experiences where visitors can learn about the various activities related to waste, ranging from recycling methods to producing energy from waste.
An example of collaboration between schools and WasteServ is the Waste Patrollers initiative. This communications activity entailed the patrolling of Bring-In Sites in various localities by Primary School children. Apart from guarding the area, the children were also actively involved in the assistance of the public when they visit the sites to separate waste. This initiative aimed at creating awareness on contributing to a clean environment among citizens starting from the younger generation. When schools participated in this initiative, as an acknowledgement of the schools’ drive towards the environment, WasteServ, through the Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment, planted trees as part of the 34UCampaign.
WasteServ also sponsors and is strongly involved in the implementation of the Xummiemu Mascot children’s campaign. Xummiemu is synonymous with environmental issues among children, following an extensive and successful campaign. The strategy was designed to include various environmental themes addressing children, and to empower the young to take action in favour of a better environment.
Last but not least, WasteServ has also created its signature tune in the form of a song entitled “Waste Matters”, where apart from collaborating with youth singer Thea Saliba, the music video of the song included more than 80 children between the ages of four and twelve years. The main message of this song is that of waste separation and its impact on the environment. Both the lyrics and the music were written by Thea Saliba, and was recorded both in English and in Maltese. Armed with this song, WasteServ also organized a series of school visits over the past scholastic year where Thea performed the song in a bid to continue to raise awareness on waste issues and to encourage waste separation.
by Kyle Briffa
Batteries
Batteries are NOT to be disposed of with other waste. A number of outlets in each locality around Malta and Gozo collect batteries in a special bin. WasteServ collects the separated, used batteries from these outlets and stores them safely until a market for recycling and/or safe disposal is identified.
You may dispose of your batteries at any Local Council Office or at a series of outlets in your locality who collect used batteries.
Get battery stickers and start separating now!
If you would like to collect used batteries at your shop, office or school, you may call WasteServ on 8007 2200 and we can provide you with stickers, which you may place on a container of your choice (we suggest a reused plastic bottle with the top part cut off). WasteServ will then empty this battery container either on a regular basis or on request. All you have to do is to call us on the FREEPHONE number or send an email on info@wasteservmalta.com.
by Kyle Briffa
For the general public
If you are a householder, you may phone your Local Council and a weekly service collection service is offered. Most councils stipulate that not more than 3 bulky items can be collected at a time. You may also take your bulky refuse to the nearest Civic Amenity Site (Recycling Centre).
Civic Amenity Sites are supervised facilities where members of the public can bring and discard a variety of household bulkywaste. Unlike Bring-In Sites, whereby only paper, plastic, metal and glass can be delivered, these sites cater for separate disposal of waste such as tyres, refrigerators, electronic products, waste from DIY activities and garden waste.
The purpose of these centres is to establish service facilities to optimise the collection of certain types of waste and increase the recovery of secondary materials. These facilities will be manned by a trained workforce and will have particular opening hours where people can enter with their car to dispose of waste separately in specific containers.
For Contractors
Bulky Refuse should be separated from other material and deposited in the area close to Ta’ Zwejra entrance, according to instructions given on site. The waste will be inspected and any waste, which is found to be appropriate for disposal at the Sant’ Antnin plant will not be accepted.
Construction waste consists of:
- Bricks
- Concrete/Reinforced Concrete
- Tiles
- Debris
- Ceramics
- Tile polishing
Between May 2003 and December 2007, over 6 million tonnes of construction waste have been disposed of in various quarries across the island through the contract operated by WasteServ. The Maghtab dump site has not been accepting inert waste since July 2003, and a five-year contract was awarded to a private contractor for the rehabilitation of quarries with clean construction material.
This measure - to dispose of this uncontaminated construction material in unused quarries - has proved to be pro-environmental in many ways. By filling these quarries with similar material to that originally extracted, for example, one is lowering the risk of contamination of the water table through other uses, since many of these quarries have their lower levels very close to the water table.
This type of waste is to be disposed of at the authorised quarries. If these quarries are operated by WasteServ Malta Ltd, vehicles should be registered.
by Kyle Briffa
You’ll need
Two clean and dry juice or milk boxes, some thin, flexible write, four matching plastic bottle caps, modelling clay, scissors, a magic marker, sellotape, and paint.
1. Draw the front and the windows of your car on one of the empty boxes.
2. Cut along the lines you have drawn. Ask an adult for help, if you need to.
3. To complete the front of the car, cut out the side of the second box. Then fold it and attach it to the front opening with sellotape.
4. Cut open the front window from the piece 
you have just attached.
5. Make a hole in the centre of each of the four caps.(Ask an adult for help, if you need to)
6. Paint the car with your favourite colour. Make two small holes near the bottom of each side, for the wires that will hold the wheels together.
7. Run a piece of wire through a cap, then through two facing holes and the car’s sided. Place another cap on the other end of the wire. Do the same for the other two wheels. Cover the wire ends with little balls of modelling clay.
8. Step on the gas! Ride ahead!
Use your imagination: You can use juice boxes or milk containers to make all sorts of vehicles. Try making a train with small bottle caps, a bus with medium-size caps, or use really big bottles caps to make a tractor!
by Kurt Bonnici
You’ll need
Two square sheets of different coloured chart paper (these could be made from old wrapping papers), a paper clip, a round piece of chart paper, a wooden or heavy cardboard rod, a cork and glue.
1. Place the coloured paper sheets one on top of the other.
2. Make four cuts at the corners and put glue on every alternate tip.
3. Open up the paper clip like this {Ask an adult for help if you need to}.
4. Bend and glue the same-colour tips together like this.
5. Assemble the clip, the round piece of chart paper, the pinwheel, the rod, and the cork as shown.
6. Now, give it a blow and made it spin!
Use your imagination: You can make ’special effects’ as your pinwheel turns, by painting or drawing circles on the spokes. You could even decorate it with glow-in-the-dark stickers!
by Kurt Bonnici
A tidal wave of man-made trash is threatening world oceans, damaging wildlife, tourism and seafood industries and pilling additional stress on seas already hit by climate change, Conservationists have said.
Close to 3.2 million kilos of trash-the weight of 18 blue whales-were collected from oceans, lakes, rivers and waterways in 2008 clean-up, the group said in its report: “A Rising Tide of Oceans Debris and What We Can Do About It”.
Topping the list of the 11.4 million items of trash collected were cigarette butts, plastic bags and food wrappers and containers. In the Philippines alone, 11,077 diapers were picked up and 19,504 fishing nets were recovered in Britain.
We simply cannot continue to put our trash in the ocean. The evidence turns up every day in dead and injured marine life littered beaches that discouraged tourists, and choked ocean ecosystems.
by Erika Gatt
You need:
Method :
1. Glue the kitchen roll with the two toilet paper rolls.
2. Cover them with used paper.
3. Cut a circle from the cereal box and fold it to make a cone.
4. Glue it on top of the kitchen roll to make the point of the rocket.
5. Paint the rocket with your favourite colours.
6. When the paint is dry you can play with it.
by Gianluca Busuttil
Hi! My presentation is about waste management in Malta. It explains the meaning of the three R’s. It has also some information on the Maltese landfills. I hope you find it useful!
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