Waste watchers what can we do?

By Waste Watchers/Zak and David

Through the years that we have been using plastic it has been stockpiling up in to piles and that was called landfill

And it has reached a massive height but in this doc we aren’t trying to warn you we are trying to tell you how to stop these stockpiles

Solutions :

Don’t use plastic bags
Use boomerang bags for people if they forget their bags in the supermarket
Use reusable or metal drink bottles not plastic one
Instead of using the plastic rolls for fruit use the mesh ones instead
Don’t put milk/can lids in the recycling bin

Solutions to be Eco friendly

Links:

What to put In the yellow bin

1.Paper, cardboard and magazines
2.All hard plastic containers
3.Aluminium cans and clean foil, aerosol and steel cans
4.Glass bottles and jars, crockery, drinking glasses, pyrex and plate glass
5.Bagged plastic bags and soft plastics
6.Bagged polystyrene
7.Specially marked Resource Recovery Collection Satchels

What to put in the red bin:

1.Plastic and metal containers and bottles, including takeaway containers and milk 2.bottles
3.Disposable coffee cups

4.Packaging, such as chip packets or food wrapping
5.Stationery such as pens, binders or CD-roms
6.Plastic bags
7.Tissues and paper towels

Stuff to put in the green bins:

Food scraps
Fruit and vegetable scraps.
Grass clippings and leaves.
Pruned garden waste, twigs and small branches.
Soiled paper/cardboard, i.e. pizza boxes and paper towel.
Meat and fish.
Pasta, bread and rice.
Shredded paper.
Grass clippings and leaves.
Pruned garden waste, twigs and small branches.
Soiled paper/cardboard, i.e. pizza boxes and paper towel.
Meat and fish.
Pasta, bread and rice.
Shredded paper.

For Questions about this doc email:‍‍‍‍

Zaka@stmartins.school.nz

Davidbou@stmartins.school.nz

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Waste Watchers are making boomerang bags for people who forget to take their bags to the supermarket.

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This is not ok
We found all of this rubbish in our school

Aston and Jerome.

Waste Watchers Trip to the Bromley EcoDrop

Watch this space in the next couple of weeks as the blog monitors will report on this.

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2018 Waste Watchers

Yesterday Waste Watchers made a visit to the EcoSort at Parkhouse Street. After that we went to the EcoShop on Blenheim Road to see where many of the things delivered to the EcoDrop end up and where people can buy them. Chris Duggan, the Christchurch City Council Educator, taught us about reducing, reusing and recycling our waste. They have very sophisticated machinery to sort our recycling into corrugated card, newspapers, mixed paper, glass, metals and plastics. Here are some of our group at work and some helpful signs.

Recycling Tips

Wash out all containers before putting them in the yellow recycling bin

No food scraps in the recycling bin or the rubbish bin only the organic bin

Only clean cardboard and paper in the yellow recycling bin. For example if you have a greasy pizza box it goes in the green bin

Don't buy the milk bottles that are white and not see through as it confuses the sorting machines at a recycling factory

Don't put your recycling in bags keep it loose

When you are at the supermarket take your own reusable bags

Soft plastics go in the New World bin

Minimise waste by buying in bulk

Buy fresh fruit not canned or in plastic

Instead of glad wrap, use ziplock bags which can be used again, and reusable containers

All lids and caps go in the red rubbish bin including ice cream lids

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We are going to trial Bokashi buckets in Navigators 3. It is a way of composting but it doesn't stink so we will keep it in the classroom. If it's successful we will use it all around the school. We got given some Bokashi mix and buckets. Here is a video explaining what they are.

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Matt Tipa and Policon( means polystyrene, injected, concrete)

On Tuesday we were really lucky to have Matt come to talk to us about his passion. As you may know Christchurch uses a lot of polystyrene so Matt and his friend Dimiti decided to start a business to reduce polystyrene. They created some bricks like lego but bigger blocks. What you use them for is you can stick them together and make a fence or a house.

They are hoping to build houses with their blocks. They are wanting to make there first house late next year as a show home and if it works they will make homes for people to live in and the homes will not be as expensive as they are now. They are also hoping the houses will be just over half the price of a normal house. While he was talking to us he handed around different types of polystyrene like the polystyrene that they had transformed into a brick. It was polystyrene mixed with cement and water that had been evaporated they also had some polystyrene in a inside. There were some of the balls that you can put in a beanbag. There was also some more of the bricks but not in the shape of a normal brick. Matt and Dimitri are located at 10 settlers Cres, Woolston, Christchurch. push to see website

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Have you seen the little triangles made out of arrows surrounding the numbers from 1 - 7 on plastic?

They tell you what type

The Recycling Factory in Wellington

of plastic it is! - Did you know until now, we had to send our plastic overseas to be recycled, but now... New Zealand has a Recycling Factory all of its own! It is located in Wellington.

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You should buy things from an Eco Shop. If you buy things from the Eco Shop you are reusing items so they don't have to go to landfill. It is on Blenheim Rd, Riccarton, Christchurch

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Please put all lids in the red rubbish bin including ice cream lids NOT IN THE RECYCLING BIN

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Two Eco Heroes

Last Tuesday Scarlett brought in some fruity bags. These are bags that you can reuse time after time at the supermarket to put your fruit and veges in, instead of using plastic bags. Thomas has some more bags here that do the same thing. Well done Waste Watcher. It is so good to see you taking on learning and action to try and make our planet a better place.

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Visit to the Eco Sort

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Journey of a plastic bag to the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean

Check out some nifty recycling art ideas

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See what you can recycle in the bin Thomas found at the supermarket.

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⭐😊 You are a star Thomas. You found the bin for soft plastic wrapping at the supermarket. 😊⭐

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Thelma has been busy over in Prague keeping up her recycling skills.

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11/4/4

Today we went looking for rubbish again, this time we looked around the amphitheatre and the junior area playground. This is what we found!!

We noticed there was a lot of chip packets. How about buying chips in a big packet and splitting it into small amounts and put in a sectioned lunch box or a plastic bag that can be reused many times before throwing out.

We then started finding out about what goes in what bin. We started a plan for a poster to put on bins.

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4/4/2017

We went to the playground to pick up some rubbish and we brought it inside and we were disgusted by all this rubbish and also how much was there. There were chip packets, plastic and metal.

We also did a flow diagram of what happens to green waste we saw that they had to pull out a lot of rubbish and that is very disappointing so i think we could do much better.

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Trip At The Eco Drop

On the 21 of March the Waste Watchers went on a trip to the Eco Drop,when we got there we went into a building, Chris (the teacher) walked us up a flight of stairs.When we got up we walked into the education room, there was a window in the room, we looked out the windows, there we saw work men control the loaders, they were moving the rubbish into different tunnels to make compost. After that Chris told us about a compost life cycle, then we played a really fun game, it was paper,scissors,rock but mixed with the compost life cycle. We all had lots of fun and we did lots of other fun things. We also learnt the importance of making sure we are reducing, reusing, recycling before we put our rubbish out.

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First Day At Eco Action

Today we had lots of fun brainstorming our awesome ideas about how to save the world from rubbish. We made our title page for our Eco Action books.We also thought up awesome questions we are going to ask the people at the Bromley Eco Drop when we go on our trip next week.We think it is going to be awesome learning about lots of problems about rubbish and the good things about recycling.We are going to try our best to make a difference in the world to make it a better place. Everyone had lots of fun.

Children’s ideas for making a difference

Hansens Pick up day. Both on land and water

Build things with rubbish. In teams of two or three

Competition as to who can pick up the most rubbish

5 bins for each day.

Make posters to encourage children to take home their lunch rubbish

Make pamphlets about recycling and deliver them

Day when we don’t have any rubbish. Syndicate then school

Juniors for recycling role play

Puppet pals

No rubbish in our lunchbox day chippie packets/gladwrap/muesli bar wrapping

I movie

Art work Christmas decoration/ Sculptures

Giraffe recycling/ giraffe hunt trail for rubbish for people to pick up

House relays where batons are a can

Rubbish sports day

Website / blog

Email city council suggestions

Make rubbish uniforms

Dress up box made out of plastic bags

Rubbish fence / stick rubbish on to giraffe

Rubbish videos in Nz not just american or english

Navigators Eco Action

Rubbish

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