OWLS
Group members
1) Saša Golob
2) Katja Matko
3) Nika Brešan
4) Nika Rupnik
Distribution of roles
1) Chair: Saša2) Secretary: Nika R.
3) Progress chaser: Nika B.4) Timekeeper: Katja
Discussion of issues
Issue 1: TOPIC AND RELATED ISSUES (each one offered some ideas for the topic, than we all agreed on chosen one and discuss about issues related to the topic with subject teacher)
Saša G. : I propose the topic Extreme sports and survival issue today.
Katja : Problem of Waste
Nika B. : I agree with Katja that Problem of Waste in Slovenia is better and more interesting topic to research
Nika R.:My proposal is also problem of waste in Slovenia, especially nuclear waste, industrial, communal and special waste.
Decision 1: Problems of Waste in Slovenia (Nuclear, Industrial, Special and Communal waste)
Final decision: Problem of Communal waste in Ljubljansko Barje
Minutes of the 1st group meetingPresent: Nika Brešan, Saša Golob, Katja Matko, Nika Rupnik Minutes of the 2nd group meeting
Held on 8 November, 2006 at Foculus
Agenda:
1. refining the PBL problem
2. finding the material
Item 1:
Discussion:
We have decided to write our project based on the Problem of Communal waste in Ljubljansko Barje. Our research will be concentrated on waste problems in Ljubljana and in Ljubljansko Barje where dumping area for Ljubljana and its surrounding municipalities is. We want to find out if and how people are recycling waste materials and how much they know about it. From our research we would like to draw better solutions for this burning issues concerning waste in area of Ljubljana.
On our first meeting we formed 10 questions, that we would like to get answers to.
Item 2:
Decision:
We will collect the material required for our topic until next meeting.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 15 November, 2006 at 12 AM at FDV library.
Minutes taker: Nika Brešan
Chair: Saša Golob
Held on 15 November, 2006 in Net Caffee
Present: Nika Brešan, Saša Golob, Katja Matko, Nika Rupnik
Agenda:
1. meeting with prof. Hočevar
2. finding the material
Item 1:
Saša went to see prof. Hočevar, so he could also help us with finding literature and forming our research. He listed some interesting organizations and individuals which can help us. He also pointed out some interesting directions in which we could research our topic.
Item 2:
Based on the material that prof. Hočevar recommended, we have decided that Katja will go to NUK and Nika B. to ODKJG to find literature and articles for our research. Saša said that she will go to Snaga for some brochures and Nika R. said that she will research the activity of the organization Umanotera that has been engaged in the research of waste management.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 22 November, 2006 at 12 AM at FDV library.
Minutes taker: Nika Brešan
Chair: Saša Golob
Minutes of the 3rd group meeting
Minutes of the 4th group meeting
Problem of Communal waste in Ljubljansko Barje
Definition:
Problem of waste is one of the most burning issues in modern world. In our research we will focus on the communal waste in Ljubljansko Barje.
Waste management contains collection, transport, processing, recycling and disposal of waste in an effort to reduce their effects on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A sub force in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials` affect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management) But unfortunately dumping areas still effect people, especially those who live near by. Here we can not forget the negative effects that they have on animals and plants that are on the edge of extinction.
Questions:
1. What is the dimension of possibilities to recycle the waste in Ljubljana?
2. Which municipal communal companies haul waste to Barje?
3. Why has Ljubljansko Barje become dumping area for waste materials?
4. Are waste materials that are headed for Barje, additionally recycled before they are dropped off? If not, why?
5. For how many years, there will be enough space for dropping of waste?
6. What are the effects of dumping area on people that live near by?
7. What effects would extinction of certain animal and plant species have on ecosystem?
8. How much money is invested per year in recycling and who invests it?
9. What all can this amount of waste cause?
10. What can be done to improve this problem?
Potential literature:
1. Vpliv ljubljanskega odlagališ# Prestor, Joerg# 2002 slv# članek/ses NUK
2. Sonaravna sanacija odlagališč# Bulc, Tjaša ;M# 2002 slv# članek/ses NUK
3. Kako ravnati z odpadki : vodi# Keuc, Albin 2002 slv# priročnik NUK
4. Sodobno celovito gospodarjenj# Ivanc, Marijan# 2001 slv# članek/ses NUK
5. Sežigalnice v trajnostnem gos# Ivanc, Marijan 2000 slv# članek/ses NUK
6. Aktualna vprašanja ravnanja s# Komunalna akad# 2000 slv# konfer.gra NUK
7. Prostorski model odlagališča # Kortnik, Jože 1999 slv# članek/ses NUK
8. Komunikacijski vidiki posegov# Pek Drapal, Da# 1999 slv# članek/ses NUK
9. Letno poročilo o zbranih komunalnih odpadkih# Žitnik Mojca 2004
10. European Environment Agency: Environment in the EU and the turn of the country: Offprint: waste generation and the management, 2001
Distribution of tasks:
We all have decided, that we will go to the NUK in the following week and each of us will examine the articles that will be divided among us based on the length of the article. When that will be done, we will divide the topics among us and then post them in the Wiki.
Comments (2)
Anonymous said
at 10:40 pm on Nov 20, 2006
You did the assignment well. But in your definition you use a citation from a source which you don't acknowledge. This is plagiarism and is sanctioned severely at our faculty. Please make it clear in your text that you are using somebody else'e words and provide the source!!!
Anonymous said
at 12:25 pm on Nov 18, 2006
I can see you are making progress :-) Make sure that, aprat from the minutes, you also add a separate document with the problem title, its definiton, 10 questions, sources and ditribution of tasks.
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