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Collection of Old Batteries

  • The Beginning

    The Beginning
    In this day we started to plan our project work activities by making a schedule and a "to do" list. This was very usefull to our organization!
  • Delivering and Reading The Warning

    Delivering and Reading The Warning
    After writing the Warning about our colection to be read on the mass by the priest of our village, we delivered it to him, and it was read for the first time on this day, It was read again on the day after.
  • Making of The Batteries Recycling Bank

    Making of The Batteries Recycling Bank
    In the afternoon we built the Batteries Recycling Bank by actually recycling an old can of Pringles and labelling it with proper name and making it look like a big battery! We used this box to collet the batteries from the people in our village.
  • Couting and Weighing the Batteries

    Couting and Weighing the Batteries
    At the end of the afternoon we counted the batteries and weighed them. A total of 375 batteries and 10kg of them!
  • Door to door Collection of Batteries

    Door to door Collection of Batteries
    On this day we collected the most part of the batteries only in our villages, Lagedo and Casal de Cima. We made it all door to door, by foot. It was a long walk...
  • Receiving the Batteries

    Receiving the Batteries
    We talked to all of the people that gave us or not the batteries they had, and we explained to a lot of them that batteries need the right treatment, something that most of the people didn't know.
  • A School Partner

    A School Partner
    A school partner that lives in our village helped us too!
  • Recycling Batteries

    Recycling Batteries
    Recycling Batteries and making something good with them
  • Finding more Batteries

    A friend outside school decided to help us with a really big contribution too.
  • More Batteries from Friends

    A classmate of ours gave us more batteries this day!
  • More help

    A friend from other school decided to help us with more batteries!
  • Another help

    Another help
    This time we received help again, now from family!
  • Recounting Batteries

    Recounting Batteries
    In this day we ended the collection and recounted and reweighed the total number of batteries. More than 900 batteries and 25kg!
  • Delivering the Batteries

    Delivering the Batteries
    In this day, we ended our project by delivering all the batteries in a batteries bank, helping a school's project named "Escolas Interrecycling"