The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Collection systems

Several products can be re-used. To simplify this whole process, it is important to collect these products separately. For example: aluminium cans have to be apart from glass. And even the colours of the glass bottles have to be separated in some countries. We want to show you how different countries manage the recycling system and what it needs to recycle successful.

Schönenberger Recycling Toggenburg AG Entsorgung Recycling in ...

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Energy source

Our apartment is heated with heating oil. Statistics show that 40% of swiss households are heated with heating oil. But the tendency is decreasing. Many new buildings rely on renewable energy.

Breakdown of sulfur

Introduction

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The breakdown of sulfur is a very challenging and hard work. It is extracted out of highly toxic gases in acid lakes or out of volcano mines. The workers have a big lack of equipment and their life expectancy is at 50 years, coughing blood is normal for them. 

The mineworkers who breakdown sulfur on the Java island in Indonesia are working on the most difficult and dangerous conditions. But what are their lives worth and what is sulfur used for?

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