Breaking up with “PET-bottles”

Kyoto Gakuen High School

Our plastic obsession
Plastic waste in Japan(yearly)

Why big companies and consumers chose PET
bottles over other options?

Pet bottle
consumption (yearly)

94,000t

Will recycling be good enough?

・Strong ⇒there is less risk of

88.8%

breaking during transportation

300-400 bottles /・economic⇒Less money needed for container

40 B nationally・Safety approved⇒Consumers canbuy food products without concern

14.4％

in health aspects.

PET bottle
waste

Recycled in japan⇅◎ PET bottles have grown toNot enoughbecome a go-to item for beveragecompanies and buyers.

Source: 日刊食品通信i -Published 2016

Source: US Food and Drug Administration

Source: CNN (Japan finally announced a fee for plastic bags. Will thatstop its obsession with plastic?-Published 2020 Emiko Jozuka

Source: The washington post-Published 2019 June 19

Simon Denyer

Fossil fuels
The greenhouse gases
emitted through plastic
creation jeopardize our ability
to keep the global
temperature

More than 99％ of plastics are made from fossil fuels(both natural gas and crude oil)and because plastic
results in greenhouse gas emissions at every stageof its life cycle.

1.5℃

rise below 1.5°C⇓If we carry on like this,by 2030 emissions
will reach 1.34 billion tons per year.

Source: Britannica- Published by Otto C Kopp

Impacts on the climate by CO2
Underdeveloped areas take the biggest hits
・decreases in the quality of crops
・Rising sea levels

80％ of CO2 is emitted
by big countires such＋secondary damage

as China And America

・Food shortages

CO2・Floods.
The impacts on agriculture in these places will mean that women and children who
work for farms may lose their livelihoods, and the economic disparity will get biggerand bigger.

Source: Regional Environmental Change - Published 2017 by Katharina Waha
Source: EPA Greenhouse gas emissions

Survey ofKyoto Gakuen 1st year students

Our proposal◎Replace the cup vender type vending machine to My bottle’ only vending machines.

Will students be open to our idea? ⇓★Start small: our school (HIgh schools)
This will not only be good for the environment, but there
are benefits for the companies we hope to work with, suchas “Coca-Cola”. Less money would be needed to make PET
bottles and plastic cups.

YES
Bring water bottle➤not wanting to spend money on
PET bottled beverages

If other schools work together, there may be a big improvement. We aregoing to build up a plan reducing plastic starting out with a local view using
these findings, to eventually build up a sustainable green-community.

NOBuy pet-bottle➤ troublesome to prepare➤ want to drink beverages otherthan tea or water.

Our group discovered that we can encourage people to use ‘My Bottle’ byemphasizing that this will save them money, but that if we also work to make iteasier for people to keep their bottle clean, we think they will be more open to a
“MyBottle” culture.
Must think of ways tokeep hygienic

FROM NOW ON

Finish base research

Get approval from school

Create proposal for company

Introduce new vending machine(wait for development)(To other schools as well)

References
・Regional Environmental Change https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-017-1144-2#:~:text=The%20MENA (参照 2020-09-10) ・FDA https://www.fda.gov/home (参照 2020-09-24)
・Middle East Institute https://www.mei.edu/publications/implications-climate-change-energy-and-security-mena-region (参照 2020-09-24) ・CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/asia/japan-plastic-obsession-dst-hnk-intl/index.html(参照 2020-09-24) ・OXFAM https://www.oxfam.org/en/5-natural-disasters-beg-climate-action (参照 2020-09-17) ・EPA https://www.epa.gov/air-emissions-inventories/national-emissions-inventory-nei (参照 2020-09-24)
・日刊食品通信 https://www.nikkankeizai.co.jp/publication/daily-news/backnumber/detail.php?id=317 (参照 2020-09-17) ・Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/fossil-fuel(参照 2020-09-10)
・EPA https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions#:~:text=Carbon%20dioxide%20(CO2)%20makes,natural%20gas%2C%20to%20produce%20electricity.
・The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-wraps-everything-in-plastic-now-it-wants-to-fight-against-plastic-pollution/2019/06/18/463fa73c-7298-11e9-9331-30bc5836f48e_story.html (参照 2020-09-24)