Rubbish Audit

To begin our new topic we had a visit by Sarah Langi from the TDC.  She collected our rubbish from play and lunch time for one day.  She made groups out of the rubbish (plastic, paper, food scraps and other).  In the food pile there was lots of food scraps like peelings and crusts, but there were also whole pieces of food that had been thrown away!  The paper pile is not so bad because we recycle our paper by putting it in a recycling bin and it is taken away to make new paper.  Two problem areas for Birchwood School are paper towels (too many germs to recycle) and the plastic pile (wrappings from food which can't be recycled).  All of this rubbish goes to the landfill (hole in the ground) and is covered up.  Sarah left us with the challenge of thinking about how we can cut down on the plastic and paper towel rubbish at our school and to try and make our own lunch with no wrappings.

The groups Sarah organised the rubbish into.

Food scraps and whole pieces of food thrown away :(

Whole food that has been thrown away :(

Our problem pile . . . plastic.

Sarah's challenge - can we make a lunch with no wrapping?