Stewardship

Question 1

What are the 4 R’s?

Answer 1

• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Repair

Question 2

What are two examples of reducing?

Answer 2

• Switch off all electronic appliances, don’t leave them on standby.
• Turn the lights off in rooms that aren’t being used

Question 3

What are two examples of reusing?

Answer 3

• Where it is possible use rechargeable batteries instead of normal ones
• if you use plastic containers to store your lunch everyday, reuse them instead of throwing them out and using a new one

Question 4

What are two examples of recycling?

Answer 4

• Do not throw out old shoes and clothes, bring them to your local charity shop
• All newspapers, brochures and leaflets can be recycled, thereby reducing deforestation

Question 5

What are two examples of repairing?

Answer 5

• If the screen on your phone cracks, place a piece of tape over it instead of pushing for a new model.
• Repair leaks. A leaking tap can waste 90 litres of water a day

Question 6

What is our carbon number?

Answer 6

The amount of greenhouse gases we produce each year

Question 7

List 6 things you can bring to a bringbank?

Answer 7

• Cardboard
• Glass
• Plastic
• Batteries
• Clothes
• White goods
• DIY rubble

Question 8

What is a landfill site?

Answer 8

It’s where all the waste is buried under the earth

Question 9

What is incineration?

Answer 9

Where waste is burned in a controlled environment

Question 10

Who deals with the waste on our community?

Answer 10

The Environmental Awareness Officer

Question 11

What is the Environmental Awareness Officer’s duties?

Answer 11

• Setting up green schools
• Setting up recycling facilities
• Writing information leaflets and distributing them
• Running campaigns to encourage good waste management practices
• Organising advertisement campaigns

Question 12

What government department is responsible for stewardship?

Answer 12

The department of the environment, heritage and local government

Question 13

What benefits do trees have?

Answer 13

• Producing food for wildlife
• Protecting soil from erosion
• Providing habitats for animals, insects, birds and plants
• Adding valuable nutrients to the soil
• Absorbing pollutants from the air

Question 14

Name two TD’s from the Green Party

Answer 14

• John Gormley

- Eamon Ryan

Question 15

Name four policies of the Green Party

Answer 15

• Reducing the amount of waste put in landfills
• Resisting super dumps
• Being against nuclear power in Ireland
• Finding alternatives to incineration as a solution to waste management

Question 16

What agreements were made by the people at Kyoto?

Answer 16

• Reducing the amount of fossil fuels burned.
• Reducing the number of trees cut down in poor countries
• Promoting the use of clean fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels

Question 17

What was the Bali Agreement?

Answer 17

Countries agreed that the best was to help the environment was to work together by promoting the use of clean and alternative types of energy

Question 18

Name four types of green energy

Answer 18

• Solar
• Hydroelectric
• Wind
• Biomass

Question 19

What happened at chernobyl?

Answer 19

An explosion at a power plant caused 190 tonnes of radioactive material to be released into the atmosphere.
The wind and rain transported the radioactive material all over Europe and even as far as Ireland.

Question 20

What is stewardship?

Answer 20

Being responsible for the care of our planet