| One of the first things we did
was have a very close look at the sort of things that were being
thrown out in our school's rubbish bins. |
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The Grade 5/6 students
put on their plastic gloves and closely examined rubbish bags from
classrooms and the playground and kept lists of what they found.
They sorted the lists into things that were biodegradable, things that
were re-usable, things that could be recycled and things that were left
over. The thing that really stood out was the amount of paper that
was just partly used and screwed into balls. |
| We sent students to interview
class teachers from the other rooms and find out what their classes
currently did with their rubbish and paper. Our own classroom was
probably the most active at re-using things. We already saved paper by
cutting old stencils into smaller pieces to use for spelling tests
etc.
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| We had a big box of things that might come in handy for
art. The youngest class in the school also had one of these art
boxes.
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Every day for two weeks two of
our class members did the dirty deed and we weighed the whole school's
garbage. We added up the results and found out that in February of
this year, before we did anything to improve the situation, Orford
Primary School had an average of 8.1 kg a day being bundled into
garbage bags and put out to be buried in the landfill. This seemed
a lot for a small school. We felt a
bit embarrassed! |
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