Zero Waste Hero Interviews

We interviewed a buddy from our class. We asked them...“How do you look after our environment?” You can read our interviews here...

Summer picked up a bag of rubbish and I do it too. My Mum has short showers to save water.

Meila

Dominic does not drop rubbish. He puts the rubbish in the bin and he picks it up.

Simi

I reuse stuff and find some spare paper. Michala picks up rubbish. I don’t put rubbish on the ground. I look after the world.

Yasmin

Toby bikes to school. He saves petrol. He picks up rubbish and puts it in the worm farm. He turns the tap off.

Cormick

If people pick up rubbish it makes our job much easier. Cormick is always wrapper free. He might drive to school, he might take James to school to save petrol. Toby

Maddi picks up rubbish. Maddi recycles rubbish and paper. Maddi doesn’t drop rubbish. Maddi goes to school on the bus to save petrol. She doesn’t waste food. Lizzie

Ryan reuses stuff. He puts it in the recycling bin.

Ben

Stella picks up rubbish with me and she is kind to me.

Rylee

Rylee picks up rubbish with me and she is wrapper free. I am wrapper free. I don’t waste paper towels.

Stella

James picks up rubbish. James doesn’t drop rubbish.

Austin

Simi turns the tap off. He is a Zero Waste Hero!

Dominic

Jamie picks up rubbish. He takes his rubbish home. He could turn off the tap to save water.

Travis

Travis takes the bus to school. He doesn’t waste petrol.

Jamie

Lizzie picks up rubbish. Lizzie recycles paper scraps. Lizzie doesn’t waste water.

Maddi

Ben picks up rubbish. He puts apples in the worm farm. He tries to be wrapper free.

Ryan

Austin picks up rubbish. He helps me pick up rubbish. He plays with me.

James

Michala picks up rubbish. Don’t drop rubbish in our school!

Summer

Yasmin reuses stuff and picks up rubbish. She looks after the school. At home our Mum’s and Dad’s have showers that are very short. They save water. Michala

Damien picks up rubbish.

William

William picks up wrappers.

Damien

Upcycling

How are you trying to keep NZ beautiful?

14th - 20th September 2014

We have been working hard to pick up rubbish around our school. 

What did room 5 see at the landfill?

At the landfill I saw a t.v. and a ladder. I think it is not good for the grass. Marc.

At the landfill I saw a t.v. and a ladder. I think the rubbish is bad. Ashley.

At the landfill I saw some tyres. I think the rubbish is not good for the world. Riley.

At the landfill I saw plugs and cardboard. I think it was stinky and it is not good for the environment. Sophie T.

At the landfill I saw a red ladder and a turkey. I think it stinks and it is not looking after the world or the environment. Brooke.

At the landfill I saw a t.v. and a ladder. Ruby.

At the landfill I saw a ladder and a bulldozer. Zach.

At the landfill I saw heaps of rubbish and I think it is not good for the grass. Lochie.

At the landfill I saw a big ladder and I saw a big t.v. I think it is bad for the world. Louise.

At the landfill I saw a t.v. and hills with rubbish on it. I think T-shirts can be reused. John.

At the landfill I saw a book in the rubbish bin. Seth.

What do you think will happen when we bury plastic wrappers and food scraps?

Have a go at this game!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

What is an Enviroschool?

Do you want to find out more about what an Enviroschool is? Have a look here...

Where does our rubbish go?

Here are some stories about our visit to Victoria Landfill. Some of us didn't realise where our rubbish went so it was great to go and have a look.

I saw rubbish at the dump. Meila

The rubbish was smelly and I had to cover my nose.

Yasmin

I saw rubbish and I saw a bulldozer and it was stinky!

Lizzie

The bulldozer went crush and crush when it moved. Damien

The big rubbish pusher, pushes the rubbish. Jamie

The wheels went crash, bash and crash. Ben

The bulldozer pushes the rubbish in the big hole. Cormick

The bulldozer crushed the rubbish. William

Enviro Pukeko goes home!

As part of our 'Zero waste challenge' prize, Room 1 won some lovely books about looking after our environment, reusable sandwich wrappers, zero waste hero badges and a very cheeky Pukeko! We have been working hard to keep our school clean ever since. We decided that our star of the day could take Pukeko home and share the books with their family. Here are some of the adventures Pukeko has had so far. We have learnt a lot about looking after our planet by reading our lovely stories with our families.

Enviro Pukeko goes home! on PhotoPeach

Zero Waste Hero Competition

After completing our audits Room 1 entered the Central Otago District Councils, 'Zero Waste Challenge'. We made two posters about being wrapper free. We reused old paper to make our poster. Guess what... we won a prize!!!

Four children from Room 1 went with Mrs Klahn to the Council in Alexandra to collect our prize. We were very nervous!

Have a look at our entry and all of the other ones here...

Room 1's Opinions

We read some stories about what happens when rubbish is dropped in our parks, lakes, rivers and in the ocean. We wrote our opinions about what should happen to people who drop rubbish. Here are some of them.

Room 1's playground rubbish audit

After looking in our lunch boxes we realised what a big problem wrappers are. We went out into the playground to see what we could find. Next we sorted the rubbish into groups and counted how many things in each group. There were far too many wrappers! We need to take action!

Food scraps

 Wrappers

 Paper

 Re-usable bags

 Other things!

 Plastic

 Rubber

 Wood

What can we do next Room 1???

Room 1's lunchbox audit

Room 1 had a look in our lunch boxes and counted the different types of wrappers we had. We thought of ideas to become better at being wrapper free. Here is what we found in our lunch boxes. Our challenge is to improve on this!

 

 

 

One apple, wrapper free sandwiches and biscuits, a re-usable bag for my pretzels and a container for my milo cereal.

James

I have a re-useable bag for my chips and compartments for my biscuits and apple.

Jamie

I have a few today. I am going to take them home. I have wrapper free biscuits and my fruit is in a re-usable bag.

Summer

I have two wrappers that I am going to take home. I have compartments to try and be wrapper free.

Meila

I have a reusable bag for my oranges. I have compartments so I can try to be wrapper free.

Yasmin

I have little containers to try and be wrapper free. Next time I could put my bun in a container instead of glad wrap.

Toby

I am trying to be wrapper free by using re-usable bags and recycling my banana peels. I have compartments in my lunch box too.

Odin

I have compartments so I don’t need wrappers.

I can re-use them.

Travis

I am wrapper free and I don’t put them in the rubbish I take them home or re-use them.

Austin

If you have wrappers leave them at home.

Ben

I put my sandwiches in a compartment.

Simi

I have a re-usable sandwich wrapper.

Damien

I am never going to bring wrappers and I love my lunch.

Cormick

I am wrapper free most days. I have lots of compartments in my lunchbox.

William

I am wrapper free. I use re-usable bags for my sandwiches.

Ryan

I take my wrapper home and I have little containers for my sandwiches.

Lizzie

I have some glad wrap today. I will take it home and could put my sandwiches in a compartment with no wrapper.

Rylee