• Gregor Čehovin
• Aleš Grnjak
• Borut Penko
• Alenka Srčnik
• Diana Stanonik
• Ana Lucija Škrjanec

 

 

 

Roles

 

• Leader: Diana
• Secretary: Alenka
• Reporter: Gregor
• Time-keeper: Ana Lucija
• Reserve person #1: Borut
• Reserve person #2: Aleš

 

 

 

 

WASTE AND AWARENESS OF FDV STUDENTS

 

 

 

 

Definition

Ecological problems represent a key and global issue in contemporary societies. It is important to educate individuals about the importance of such since they are likely to become even more pressing in the future. Our main focus is directed at waste management and what individuals can do to contribute to this process by adapting a positive attitude.

According to preliminary discussions with certain FDV students our impression is that many of them do not separate their waste at home. Therefore we will attempt to look at this specific problem more closely. We would like to better approximate just how many FDV students actually separate their waste. We are also interested in reasons that would explain why they do not separate their waste. By doing so we hope to learn sufficient information to offer possible solutions to this problem (FDV students not separating their waste).

 

 

 

Main question 

How to raise awareness among FDV students regarding environmental problems?

 

 

 

Working questions

01)     What is FDV students' attitude towards waste prevention, recycling and waste treatment?

02)     What are the main reasons for the lack of interest for the environment among FDV students?

03)     How familiar are young people with various schemes that educate and promote a positive attitude to help protecting the environment?

04)     Which organizations and institutions are currently responsible for educating and informing the youth and what is their role?

05)     Which actions and initiatives which promote a positive attitude towards waste management and have youth as one of their target audiences took place in 2007?

06)     How do the media influence the young with regard to dealing with waste and waste awareness?

07)     How do the nature and society benefit from waste prevention, recycling and waste separation?

08)     How are waste electronic materials collected and recycled in Slovenia?

09)     How does waste in contemporary society differ from waste in societies from decades ago?

      10)   What is expert opinion on the effects and implications of the current situation on future waste management and disposal?

 

 

 

Distribution of tasks

01 – Ana Lucija

02, 03 –  Alenka

04, 05 – Borut

06, 07 – Diana

08, 09 – Aleš

10 – Gregor

 

 

 

List of literature 

 

See this link.

 

 

 

Glossary

1. waste management - ravnanje z odpadki

2. solid waste - trdni odpadki

 

3. waste disposal technique - način odlaganja odpadkov

4. waste EEE (electrical and electronic equipment) - odpadne električne in elektronske naprave

5. End-of-Life (EoL) products - produkti, ki jih proizvajalec ne trži več, prav tako ne nudi nobene tehnične podpore

6. separate collection of waste - ločeno zbiranje odpadkov

7. landfill - odlagališče, deponija

8. hazardous waste - nevarni odpadki

9. curbside collection - zbiranje kompostnih, reciklažnih ali navadnih odpadkov na robu pločnika pred stanovanjsko hišo

10. driver (in development) – mehanizem ali faktor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minutes of our meetings

 

 

I. Minutes of the e-meeting, held on 23rd of February 2008 on MSN

Present: Gregor, Aleš, Borut, Alenka, Diana, Ana Lucija

Absent: None

 

 

 

Agenda:

1. Select a general topic

2. Define a specific problem

3. Form a main research question

4. Set up working questions

5. Any other business

 

 

Item 1: After a brief brainstorming session the two main topic candidates were "The Homeless in Slovenia" and "Waste Management". We decided to go with the latter since it is a persistent global problem that will likely be even more pressing in the future.

 

Item 2: We decided to research the role of young people in the process of waste management and thus formed our draft title, "Waste and Youth Awareness".

 

Item 3: We decided that our main research question is the role of young people in dealing with waste in the future and how to better prepare them for this task.

 

Item 4: We did further (this time more specific) brainstorming and we selected 10 working questions out of many. The questions are published in this wiki page.

 

Item 5: All present agreed that our first meeting was a success and that it was an enjoyable experience.

 

 

Assignments: All members must look for literature regarding our topic that will enable us to construct a more specific and comprehensive theoretical base for our project. This will prepare us for phase three of PBL project where lists of literature are the main item.

 

Minutes taker: Gregor

Chair: Diana

 

 

 

II. Minutes of the e-meeting, held on 1st of March 2008 on MSN

Present: Gregor, Aleš, Borut, Alenka, Diana, Ana Lucija

Absent: None

 

 

 

Agenda:

1. Narrowing our topic definition

2. Writing definition of our specific research problem

3. Reforming working questions

4. Distributing the tasks

5. Finding relevant literature

6. Any other business

 

 

Item 1: We began our meeting by reflecting on two sample definitions that we had produced during the week. We then held a consultation to decide which aspects of our sample definitions best highlight our PBL topic. We soon agreed on a narrower topic definition which gives a better description of the problem that we are trying to research and find solutions for.

 

Item 2: We decided to abandon our original research questions because it was a bit too general. It described our problem but it did not indicate what we are actually trying to solve. In light of this we decided to recheck our topic definition for possible clues.

 

We then attempted to explain what we are trying to do in the process of our PBL project in one sentence. After a brief exchange of ideas, we arrived at our new narrower specific research problem.

 

Item 3: First we took a look at our existing working questions to see if any of them were okay and which questions had to be improved. We decided to keep only a handful of our original working questions in their original form. The majority of our working questions was either reformed or changed. It took a bit of effort to make sure that our questions did not overlap.

 

Item 4 : After we were finally satisfied with our working questions, we distributed our tasks with relative ease. We all pretty much had an idea about which aspects of our PBL project we would like to be involved with.

 

Item 5: Each member of our group suggested a few literature sources. We took some time and picked out the ones that seemed to be the most relevant to our problem and concluded that we would add to the list any relevant literature we find during our research.

 

Item 6: We agreed that we would do an action-item follow-up at our next meeting. There was no other business left.

 

 

Minutes taker: Gregor

Chair: Ana Lucija

 

 

 

III. Minutes of the e-meeting, held on 6th of March 2008 on MSN

Present: Gregor, Aleš, Borut, Alenka, Diana, Ana Lucija

Absent: None

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

1. Action-item follow-up

2. Writing glossary

3. Discussing working questions

4. Any other business

 

 

Assignments

Everyone was assigned to find at least five FDV students that would fill out our questionnaires. Everyone must then deliver these questionnaires to Ana Lucija. Alenka and Ana Lucija were appointed to analyze the results of the survey.

Gregor was assigned to work on the introduction of our report, while Borut was assigned to work on the conclusion.

 

 

Item 1: We continued to search for relevant literature and updated the literature list. This also helped us with the process of creating our glossary. On Wednesday we had a meeting with our subject professor, Ms. Zorko where all the work that we had done so far was examined. The assignments stated in our previous meeting were all completed successfully.

 

 

 

 

Item 2: Every group member suggested a few glossary items. We added those that seemed the most relevant to our list.

 

 

Item 3: We inspected our working question again and tried to determine which ones are mainly theoretical and which ones are mainly empirical.

We then decided how question will be ordered in our report so that its content will be coherent. We also wanted to make sure that our survey coherently coincides with certain working questions.

 

 

 

Item 4: During the week we formed our survey and started handing out questionnaires. We discussed details on how we will perform the analysis of our survey results. We also talked about our PBL report, because we wanted to inspect how we are progressing so far and see if we need to adjust our schedule to meet all the deadlines. In general, we checked what still needs to be done.

 

 

 

Minutes taker: Gregor

Chair: Ana Lucija