Country: Denmark School/ organization: Aalborg youth School Delegation leader/teacher: Anne Juel Larsen Students: Daria Mataonau, Emilie Jennet, Nicole Kryger Partner organization: Aalborg Youth City Council Project title: Fixing our food-waste problem The production of foods is consuming resources and contributing to global carbon emissions. It is not only that producing food in itself is adding to more pollution but also the fact that people are throwing it away makes much of the pollution purposeless. 7 to 8% of global carbon emissions are related to food that we do not even eat. Most big cities in Denmark are facing this problem. Over the course of one year, all people in Denmark are wasting approximately 247,000 tonnes of food (2017), which is after reducing it from 261,000 tonnes in 2011 and 2012. Wasting food is not only happening in Denmark. There are lots of countries that produce even more waste, and though there are countries that are more aware of how much they are throwing away, food waste is still a global issue. For a sustainable life in a big city, we decided to make young people more aware of the food waste situation and invited them to contribute in making their own lunches with expired or nearly expired food, to show them that food is okay to be consumed even a few days after their expiration date. We will examine how young people in Aalborg look at the food wasting issue and contribute to a positive mind set regarding food habits.

Country: Denmark School/ organization: Aalborg youth School Delegation leader/teacher: Anne Juel Larsen Students: Kalinka Ranfelt, Nikoline Prehn, Cecilie Færk, Maja Linnemann Partner organization: Aalborg Youth City Council Project title: Clothes Swap The accessibility of cheap clothes and styles that changes every season has caused a rise in the consumption of clothing items in first world countries. The means of production, along with the immense distances travelled to get the materials to the factories and then to the consumers, leave a considerable footprint on the environment caused primarily by the CO2 emitted and the water usage. As urban living provides a lot of people packed together, this is the ideal place to start dealing with the problems of the clothing industry especially since the big cities are where a lot of sources of reused clothes typically are located for example thrift shops. As a branch of the already existing trend in our city, Aalborg, we are going to test the effects of swapping clothes instead of just tossing them out to buy brand new ones. In our project, we dig into how reusing clothes can have a positive effect on the individual’s environmental footprint as well as how it can be an event to strengthen a community. Therefore we plan to make a clothing swap scheduled in May 2019 to test if this idea could be one of the possible solutions to the problem and we will present the results of this at the conference.