第９２回　WORKSHOP報告（１０月１８日） / 参加者７０名

第９２回　WORKSHOP報告（１０月１８日） / 参加者７０名

 

666

（１：今回も9人の新人の方々にお越しいただきました）

 

777

（２：前半は一部のグループ代表にプレゼンをしていただきました）

 

 

888

（３：最後に合宿の案内をさせていただきました）

 

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《　今回のworkshop　》

 

○workshop参加人数：７０名（うち新人の方：９名）

 

○【前半】：「食欲の秋」というテーマでディスカッション

 

○【後半】：” Seattle imposes fine for too many food scraps in the garbage”という記事に関するディスカッション

 

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＜英語サークル　E’s club　第９２回workshopのご案内＞

 

みなさまこんばんは、E’s club幹事のKです。

１０月１８日（土）開催の第９２回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

前回に引き続き、ネイティブ講師のJ先生をお迎えしてのworkshopとなります。

今回もJ先生に後半のマテリアルをご作成いただきました。

 

前半のマテリアルは私Kが作成いたしました。テーマは「食欲の秋」です。

 

[今週のマテリアル]

＜FIRST HALF＞

Title: Autumn appetite

 

Questions:

 

Q1. What kind of food comes to your mind first when you think of autumn foods?

 

Q2. Among the delicacies in autumn you have tasted, which one do you recommend?

 

Q3. In Japan we call autumn “the season for good appetite”.

How about in foreign countries?

If you’ve heard something similar, please tell it to your group members.

 

Q4. With your group members, please make a plan for an event of E’s club to enjoy seasonal food.

Make sure to include following contents.

A. Main dish

B. Venue

C. Participation fee

D. Unique selling point

At the end of the first half, I’ll designate 2 or 3 groups to present the plan.

 

 

＜LATTER HALF＞

Questions for discussion

1.    How often do you recycle? Do you always separate your garbage? Do you find it troublesome?

2.    Why is recycling important?

3.    Did you like reading these articles and video? Why or why not?

4.    Do you think a $1 fine is enough to make people recycle?

5.    Do you think a $50 fine for not composting is too expensive for businesses?

6.    What are the pros and cons of this new system?

7.    Do you think fining people for not composting is a good idea? Why or why not?

8.    Would you like to see a similar system in Osaka?

9.    Should composting be compulsory?

10.    What kind of recycling system does Osaka, or the city where you live, have?

11.    How does your town increase awareness about recycling?

12.    Is raising awareness more important than raising revenue?

13.    What is your image of Seattle?

14.    Have you ever worked in a place which sold food? Was much food wasted there?

15.    According to a survey, Americans waste 40% of the food they buy.  Do you think this statistic is the same in Japan?

16.    What things do you waste a lot of?

17.    How could you reduce what you waste?

18.    What does the expression “no waste, no want” mean?

19.    Do you agree with the saying that “one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure”?

 

Link to the video

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/seattle-new-composting-law-fines-for-throwing-away-food-scraps/

 

Articles

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-usa-washington-recycle-idUSKCN0HI2EF20140923

Seattle imposes fine for too many food scraps in the garbage

By Victoria Cavaliere

SEATTLE  Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:34pm EDT

 

(Reuters) – Seattle residents who throw too many pizza crusts, coffee grounds and uneaten leftovers in their regular garbage will now face a fine, in one of the toughest mandatory composting efforts in the country, officials said on Tuesday.

The Seattle City Council voted on Monday to impose a $1 fine on residents each time they fill more than 10 percent of their home garbage with compostable waste, such as food scraps and paper products. Repeat offenders could see the fine increase to $50.

 

Seattle, long seen as a leader in urban sustainability and recycling efforts, is the second major U.S. city after San Francisco to make composting mandatory in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, environmental officials said.

 

Global centers such as New York City and London have also considered fines for residents who fail to dump food waste in designated compost bins but have not so far adopted them.

 

Up to 40 percent of food purchased in the United States is thrown out, according to the National Resource Defense Council.

 

In 2012, only 5 percent of food waste was diverted from landfills for composting, a process of decomposition of organic waste like food, yard trimmings and paperboard products, the EPA said.

 

Over the past five years, a number of cities and states have created voluntary curbside composting programs and increased efforts to divert food and yard waste out of landfills, the agency said.

 

Mandatory composting in Seattle will be enforced by Seattle trash collectors, who will enter violations into a computerized system. Offenders will then receive a notice on their garbage bin that a fine will be included on their next bill.

 

Seattle’s measure is more lenient than a 2009 mandatory composting law passed in San Francisco, with individual offenders being warned then facing up to a $100 fine for repeat offenses.

 

Seattle recycles about 60 percent of municipal solid waste, according to city data. That’s compared to about 34.5 percent nationally, according to the EPA.

 

The Pacific Northwest city is pursuing a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, pushing residents to conserve water and energy, drive less, use green products and transportation, and recycle more.

 

(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Cynthia Osterman)

 

http://rt.com/usa/190428-seattle-composting-food-trash-fines/

Seattle to fine residents, businesses for wasting too much food

Published time: September 25, 2014 01:25

 

Seattle wants its residents to compost food scraps so much the city will begin fining homes, apartment buildings and businesses that throw away too much food mixed with their garbage, according to new rules passed by the city council.

 

Starting in January, trash collectors “can take a cursory look each time they dump trash into a garbage truck,” the  Seattle Times reported. From the start of the year until the end of June, residents whose trash consists of at least 10 percent food waste or certain paper products will receive a warning from Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), the Associated Press said.

 

On July 1, the fines will begin.

 

Single-family homes will face a $1 fine on their next garbage bill if they don’t comply with the new rules. Trash collectors will enter the violation into a computer system their trucks already carry, and will leave a ticket explaining the details of the fine on the garbage bin.

 

Apartment buildings and businesses must also comply with the 10-percent-or-less threshold, but commercial properties will receive two warnings before they are hit with a $50 fine on their next bill. Inspectors will check dumpsters on a random basis, the Times reported.

 

The city is issuing the fines to meet its self-imposed goal of recycling 60 percent of all waste in 2015. Seattle’s recycling rate in 2013 was 56 percent, a slight increase over 2012’s rate.

 

“Compostables are about 30 percent of what is still in the garbage and they are the largest target we have to help us reach our goals,” Timothy Croll, solid waste director of the utilities commission, told  Q13. “Also, composting food waste reduces emissions of methane, which is a strong cause of climate change.”

 

The fines aren’t intended to raise revenue in Seattle. Neither was a nine-year-old prohibition on recyclables in the trash. The city has collected less than $2,000 from those fines, Croll told the Times.

 

“We care more about reminding people to separate their materials,” he added.

 

Residents are torn on the usefulness of the rules.

 

“Personally, I’m a fan of composting,” Colin Hearn, 28, a Seattle resident who works at a marijuana dispensary, said to  Al Jazeera America. “I think it’s kind of hypocritical not to compost. But in terms of regulating it, I’m not sure about that.”

 

Marty Bisch, 59, a retired police officer and lifelong Seattle resident, said he would have preferred a reward to a fine, noting the city’s anti-establishment tendencies.

 

“I realize that things are either a carrot or a stick mentality, but I would rather see someone get a reward than a fine,” he said. “I don’t think that’s going to be a big incentive for people who aren’t composting.”

 

The new law is expected to generate an additional 38,000 tons of compost material every year. SPU contends that the garbage inspections and the issuing of fines will have “minimal costs” and will save money in the long run by reducing landfill usage, Q13 reported.

 

But Todd Myers, environment director for the conservative Washington Policy Center, thinks the money could be put to better use.

 

“There are a lot of ways to spend this money to actually do good for the planet. … Seattle is very good at doing things that feel good, but very bad at doing things that do good for the planet,” he told the Fox affiliate.

 

The nine members of the Seattle City Council passed the new rules unanimously on Monday.

 

 

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