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Waste week. By Jaymee Cummings & Eco Secretary Katie Jones. Reduce your food. Only ask for the amount of food you think you can eat so that food doesn't go to waste.
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Waste week By Jaymee Cummings & Eco Secretary Katie Jones
Reduce your food • Only ask for the amount of food you think you can eat so that food doesn't go to waste. • When food waste rots in landfill it is in an oxygen-free environment. This creates methane – a gas over 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. These gases are significant causes of climate change. Recycling food waste prevents these gases from being released into our atmosphere.
Recycle your packaging • Some plastic films can now also be recycled at supermarket carrier bag recycling points. Look out for the message ‘Recycle with carrier bags at larger stores – not at kerbside’. The following can be included:Plastic carrier bagsPlastic bread bagsPlastic bags from breakfast cereals Plastic wrappers from multipacks of cans and plastic bottlesPlastic wrappers from toilet roll and kitchen towelPlastic freezer bagsPlastic magazine (home delivery) and newspaper wrap
Recycle your electronics • what you do with the electronics you no longer want or use, or those that no longer work and hanging out in the digital graveyards of our basements and drawers. You have a choice what to do with them: sell, donate, or recycle for reuse or “mining” for component materials.
Recycle your clothes • The clothing in our wardrobes is worth over £4,000 - yet 30% of it is unused. From buying clothes that are designed to last longer, to buying second-hand clothes, to looking for new ways to wear existing clothing - there are lots of things we can do to make the most of our clothes
Blenheim Road Community Primary School Waste Week July 2013
The Eco Team! The Eco Team at the Waste Week Meeting. We are making sure we meet the challenge to persuade everyone to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE!
Year 1 made their own compost boxes and designed posters to persuade us to Recycle food waste! Year 1 found out that worms help to make compost – we made play dough worms for our boxes!
In Reception we went for a litter walk then collected and sorted the litter. Reception found out that we need to recycle all different types of waste.
Reception learnt about how to recycle plastic cups and make pencils! It was REMARKABLE!! We watched the film on recycling waste and made posters.
Nursery learnt about how to recycle their plastic milk bottles The Milk bottles can be made into a sail canopy and musical instruments
Year 2 are finding out about not wasting energy. They read the electricity meter with Mr Todd. Year 2 will take a reading again next Thursday to see if we have met our challenge............ To reduce our energy waste!
The Junior children had to find out about how much paper, food and water we waste! Da Iawn! Juniors, you had the messiest challenge!
Diolch yn Fawr Blenheim Road. We will continue the challenge!!! Let’s REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE to keep our Green Flag Flying!