War on waste

In class we continue to learn about all the issues facing us that have to do with "Waste in our world" It's great to see so many students engaged and becoming passionate about a very important issue that faces us all... OUR TRASH

Today on our walk over to the wildflower pond playground, I challenged the students to see how much waste (Plastic in particular) they could see to highlight the issues we are talking about in class. I was amazed with the response as I saw as most of our students demonstrating leadership qualities by beginning to pick up the waste that they were seeing. This continued, without instruction, a several students began to take part in a playground clean-up. I decided to bring the waste back to our class and see how much there was in such a short space and what particular materials these where made out of. This is what we discovered...

As you can see the students were not please with their findings and discovered that the majority of this waste was made out of plastic that will never fully bio-degrade. Amongst this we found a number of straws, cups and packaging waste that is no longer polluting the outside environment as we sorted it into the correct disposal units.

We have had some great discussions in class over these topics and I encourage you to continue these at home so you can be as pleased as I am with the depth of knowledge, importance of waste management and common sense solutions that have been identified here in 140.

Well done!!!
Continue leading the way to the future you wish to live in!

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