How have some children helped their school environment?
Bryn: "Eat less meat."
Millie: "Bike to work or school."
Gayanuka: "Stop littering."
After collecting rubbish from around our kura for just 10 minutes, we came back to analyse the data.
In 10 minutes, Room 26 collected:
Plastic pieces = 202
Paper = 76
organic = 22
random = 10
What do we think about this?
Henry: "I think Waka can do better."
Grayson: "It's horrible because we collected a lot in such a short time."
Elora: "This is really bad for life, sea and everywhere."
Midhush: "It's bad for the ocean because then the wind blows it to the drains."
Theo: "I saved 3 plastic bags that were heading for the drain!"
The category we had the most of was plastic.
When we looked even closer....
we realised the plastic had come from our lunchboxes!
How can we solve this problem?
Maddison: "Unwrap the muesli bar at home."
Leo: "I use a sustainable cupcaker holder for my crackers etc."
Isabel: "Just bring a litter-free lunch!"
Room 23 collected litter from each area and compared:
Maia "There's the most rubbish in the Year 3 and 4 area"
"The Year 3 and four rubbish pieces might just be bigger"
"Most of the litter in the Year 2 area was small" Bryn
"The litter comes from lunchboxes"
What can we do?
Make posters for litterfree lunchboxes
Make a commercial
Make a video about can happen if we make rubbish
Send a letter to the people who make Glad Wrap telling them not to make it and send a letter to supermarkets asking them not to sell it.
Make a booklet about litterfree lunches
Put reminders around the school about litter
Send notices to all of the parents for litterfree lunch boxes
Show how much litter is collected per year so people will reduce
Ask Ms Von to have a litterfree lunch day each week.
Awards for the tidiest area
Have a daily litter pick up
We read an interesting article about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The Plastic-Free Challenge - school journal Level 2
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